Education Standards, Curriculum resources, etc.

[Fred Sayre]

Originally Posted by Rich Kressly

I promised many of you and myself that I would find a way to make education standards and school curriculum materials accessible to the community all in one place before kickoff. I just uploaded updated files and here is everything related that I've been involved with over the past three years:

1. PA & DE state education standards matched to FIRST programs:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/1898

2. HS/Vex curriculum materials and game challenges:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/1897

3. The national effort to tie robotics competitions to curriculum. Videos and basic information from the 2006 Robotics Education Symposium are now available and documentation that includes national standards, skills, assessment, along with rubric evaluation criteria and web resources will be available VERY soon, so keep checking this link:
http://www.tsarobotics.org/

Excellent timing! I participated in a local robotics program in high school and the teachers are desperately trying to prove to the district and Washington state that the curriculum is valuable. I was tasked to find if there was some, if any, existing precedent to help out, and I thought there had to be something within the FIRST community.

I was just about to go searching when I found this thread. Thanks for your contributions!