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2021-2022 STEM/STEAM Class Activities

Career Focus Transportation: Aviation, Trains, Cars, Buses & Bicycles

35 weeks of hands - on STEM/STEAM activities

Module 1 - Introduction to STEM/STEAM ( science & methods) - S.T.E.A.M.

Goals:

Apply and document an engineering design process measured by identifying criteria and constraints, making representations, testing and evaluation, and refining the design as needed to construct a product or system that solves a problem.

Deliverables:

Module 2 - The Future & Career Opportunities In Transportation

Goals:

Students will learn about transportation management and the job of traffic manager
Students will learn about distribution centers, warehouse and plant locations and how things happen before packages are delivered to the consumer
Students will explore how various current issues affect the future of transportation

Students will explore a career in transportation

Module 3 - Road Trip

Goals:

Students will learn what maps legends are used for
Students will learn how to locate information to plan a trip via car, bus, plane, or train
Students will learn to measure mileage using the key given on the map
Students will learn to work cooperatively with team members to complete a task
Students will learn what goes on into planning a road
Students will learn how to develop a logical reasonable itinerary
Students will learn to communicate thoughts clearly and effectively
Students will learn to create graphs or charts displaying the cost of travel and embed the graphs in written presentation
Students will learn to write persuasive essay

Module 4 - Product & Delivery

Goals:

Students will learn how to understand different modes of transportation
Students will explore geospatial technology using interactive maps
Students will explore fuel-consumption data
Students will learn to describe intermodal transportation
Students will learn to create a map showing the route of a product from origin to final destination
Students will learn to determine whether a route using right turn philosophy is fuel efficient
Student will learn to identify factors contributing to variations in fuel consumption
Students will explore the use of geospatial technologies for route planning
Students will learn how to identify factors involved for efficient urban route planning
Students will explore use of geospatial technologies
Students will develop interstate routes for trucks delivering goods to distribution centers
Students will learn to identify factors involved for interstate route planning

Module 5 - Movement of International Shipments

Goals:

decision..

Students will learn to determine the best economic decision evaluating the alternatives.
Students will learn to describe the influence of market economies through cost savings
Students will learn to analyze economic decisions and risk when selling internationally
Students will explore the role of financial institutions in Incoterms transactions
Students will learn to analyze information and identify use of documents in a transaction
Students will learn to analyze economic decisions made when shipping
Students will learn to analyze the economic consequence for each mode as they interact with each other.
Students will learn to identify cause-and-effect relationships in shipping and warehousing.
Students will learn from the customer’s viewpoint, compare and contrast needs of customer
Students will be aware of government rules and regulations and soooo much more.