Each of the tasks meet the California Department of Education School-to-Career Unit, Industrial & Technology Education Standards, in the Drafting Technology Core.
Industrial & Technology Standards Review Project Now available for viewing.
Standards addressed, Standard 2, Orthographic Drawing, Standard 6, Computer-Aided Drafting and Operations and Standard 8, Solid Modeling.
These model tutorials constructed with thinkdesign 7.0.
- Basketball Game View in VRML
- Whistle. View in VRML
- Gumball Machine View in VRML
- Gameboard View in VRML or as a JPEG.
- Nutcracker View in VRML
- Hiddenhinge Box View in VRML
- Mail Box View in VRML
- Lego Assembly Tutorial
- Simple Assembly/Animation Task
- Nutcracker, NEW. View in VRML.
- Gumball Dispenser, NEW View in VRML.
- Simple Gear
- Helical Gear. View in VRML.
- Razor Scooter
- Space Exploration. This includes Shuttle Transport, Space Station and Gravity Toroid models. View Space Station in construction Here.
- VRML examples
- Pro Desktop Tutorials
Let's fabricate a simple clock with your design. Here's a view of it in VRML
Resources
- Future City Competition.
- Robotics at your command: Control your own remotely operated vehicle. Record your time.
- Soda Constructor. Build a robot.
- NASA Robotics.
- Lasers From Science Fiction to Everyday Life.
- Lift and Angle of attack. Read before fabricating the X-30.
- NASA celebrates 100 years of flight.
- Simple Machines. Try this simple quiz on simple machines before fabricating your nutcracker.
- First Lego League Competition.
- 3-D Lego solid modeling software
- Wood, Plastic and Metal fabrication. (See Itech Photo Table Below)
- How Stuff works
- Building Big. Interactive labs on Bridges, Dams, Skyscrapers, Tunnels and Domes.
- The Invention Factory Try your luck.
- How does a jet engine work?
- Electric powered vehicles
- Nanotechnology Activity, comming soon.
- Nanotechnology Gallery
- Aeronautics. Design your own commercial airliner How much will it cost?
- Frank Lloyd Wright Structures
- Car Builder/Solar Sprint
- Aerodynamics Index. Includes the Curveball activity. Try your luck!
- Aerodynamics In Car Racing
- Hydrodynamics/Design
- Rocketry
- Architecture
- Telecommunications (includes live mission coverage of all STS missions via NASA Select)
- Air and Space Transportation Systems
- Inventors Tool Box
Career awareness is offered in each of the learning modules with particular emphasis on the aerospace industry. Each year 30 Ralston Itech students visit the NASA-Ames Aerospace Encounter. They experience the excitement of four learning centers which stimulate enthusiasm and imagination and include a simulated space station.
For more information about Ralston Industrial Technology contact Ralston Middle School.
Page last updated January 4, 2010