Mr. Loughran - Technology Education

Links by Grade

6th Grade	7th Grade	8th Grade
• PBS Building Big -- Bridges	• A Webquest I created about Energy	• The NXT Step Blogspot
• Bridges on the Charles River	• Finding the height (apogee) of a rocket's flight	• Lego Minstorms NXT Forum
• Truss Bridge Lab	• Making an 'inclinometer'	• Lego Engineering
• Lots of Bridge Links and Activities	• Math and Science behind flight	• Tufts Lego Engineering Center
• Types of Bridges -Descriptions and Graphics	• An airfoil graphic
• Tacoma Bridge Collapse - Google Video	• A great site to learn about Wind power
	• Some cool space and Rocketry videos
Rube Goldberg Machine Resources
• Edheads - Simple Machines
• Harcourt School Simple Machines Activity
• 'Goldburger' To Go!
• Leo's Mystery Machinery
• Tom and Jerry's Trap-O-Matic
• Rube on Wikipedia
• MIT's middle school contest

Web Resources by Grade