Teacher/Counselor Resources
Get Funding for Your Precollege Programs
IEEE-USA’s K-12 STEM Literacy Committee’s K-12 STEM Activity Fund helps teachers to sponsor innovation and creativity in or outside of the classroom. These funds provide small amounts of funding for novel ideas that introduce engineering to students.
Get Nominated for a Precollege Educator-Engineer Partnership Award
The IEEE-USA Precollege Educator-Engineer Partnership Award is to recognize collaborative activities between K-12 teachers and technical professionals who are IEEE members.
Get Lesson Plans for Your Classroom
Teachers participate in "in-service" days and work with IEEE engineers to learn how to implement various engineering related lesson plans in classrooms. Each lesson is tied to education standards, and includes teacher summaries, student worksheets, and activities.
- ASEE's Engineering K-12 Center
This site provides k-12 students with lesson plans to use in classrooms, highlights engineering outreach programs for precollege students, and serves as a hub for engineering education resources.
PLTW engages students in hands-on, real-world projects, allowing them to understand how the skills they are learning in the classroom can be applied in everyday life. This approach is called activities-based learning, project-based learning, and problem-based learning (or APPB-learning, for short).
Get Engineering Literature for Your Classroom
Contact Sandra Kim at sandra.kim@ieee.org to order the brochures listed below.
- My Science, My Math, My Engineering (middle school brochure)
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Careers in Electrical Electronics and Computer Engineering (high school
brochure)
- Engineers Go For It! (magazine recommended for high school students)
Participate in a Competition
Provided below are a few competitions that may be of interest to precollege science, math and technology teachers:
The mission of the National Engineers Week Future City Competition is to provide a fun and exciting educational engineering program for seventh- and eighth-grade students that combines a stimulating engineering challenge with a "hands-on" application to present their vision of a city of the future.
Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS) National Engineering Design Challenge is a real world challenge, for high school students, to help people with disabilities enter or advance in the workplace. JETS TEAMS is an annual national competition for high school students with an interest in math, science, and engineering applications.
FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is a unique varsity sport of the mind designed to help high-school-aged young people discover how interesting and rewarding the life of engineers and researchers can be. There are other FIRST competitions as well such as FIRST LEGO League.
- BEST Robotics
BEST is a non-profit, volunteer organization whose mission is to inspire students to pursue careers in engineering, science, and technology through participation in a sports-like, science- and engineering-based robotics competition.
ThinkQuest inspires students to think, connect, create, and share. Students work in teams to build innovative and educational websites to share with the world.
Other Potential Resources
- My College Options
My Options is your college planning headquarters. The My College Options® Resource Center provides up to date news and information for students and parents.
- IEEE Virtual Museum
The IEEE Virtual Museum is designed for students ages 10-18, educators, and the general public to enhance their understanding of the principles of electrical and information sciences and technologies within a historical context.
Engineers Week also raises public understanding and appreciation of engineers' contributions to society.
TryEngineering.org is a portal about engineering and engineering careers
TryScience.org is a gateway to experience the excitement of contemporary science and technology through on and offline interactivity with science and technology centers worldwide.
NASA's K-12 Internet Initiative
- JETS
Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS) - Engineering dream jobs and extreme engineering
- Engineer Your Life
A guide to engineering for high school girls
Updated: 27 January 2012
Contact: Sandra Kim, sandra.kim@ieee.org
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