Thanks to Peter Apps

A handy safety site for the kids

http://www.youngworkers.com.au/index.php

Project ideas with Kits

http://www.psischools.com/library_frame.html
it has heaps of turning project job sheets for wood, metal and acrylic

Glues: What to use where

www.thistothat.com

good article on glue types, technologies and applications (eg: can you use epoxy to bond brass?)
http://campus.umr.edu/piezo/MotorAnalysis/BondingNote/BondingNote.html

Information/Reference

Good site for engineering and for metals heaps of links to al sorts of information, Ergonomics to chemistry
http://www.roymech.co.uk/

Impact of Technology/Analysing

http://knowledgecontext.org/Introduction/ICE9_on_ICE9.htm

Sustainability

http://www.practicalaction.org.uk/?id=education&utm_campaign=Education

Technology Mandatory

General

What is Design?

may be temporary) Contains slide shows with audio, Minnesota University

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2007/02/02_lifebydesign/

Designing Site

Excellent Resource for IT or tech Mandatory

http://www.users.on.net/~fixmymac/design.html

Recycling

please find a web resource that deals with an Australian company that has a 100% no waste method of recycling used tyres.

http://www.molectra.com.au/

Paper Projects

You can also find paper crafts on the Canon website at the following URL:
http://cp.c-ij.com/english/3D-papercraft/index.html

www.papertoys.com

Interesting projects

www.uniqueprojects.com

Interesting projects for Design and Technology students. Gives a good analysis of the design of most of the projects discussed.

http://www.gizmo.com.au

They describe themselves as a web site covering invention, innovation and emerging technologies.

http://scitoys.com/

Science Based Projects kids could make

http://www.ldrider.ca/cnc/garysclock/garysclock.htm

Mantel Clocks

Pan Flutes

http://www.panflutejedi.com/jean-paul-tutorial.html

Interior Design

http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_GB/rooms_ideas/bedroommoods_start/index.html

Here is a great activity on the internet for cradle to grave sustainability analysis of products. This activity gets your students to explore all the environmental impacts of a project from ‘cradle’ to ‘grave’

http://www.urbanoptions.org/SustainEdHandbook/CradleToGraveLink.htm

Modelling

Examples of how and why some designers use modelling. The IDEO interview has a very important point about using models to communicate with non-visual people (clients) who couldn't quite 'get' the design just from looking at 2D CAD renderings.

http://www.core77.com/reactor/ideo_interview_dean.html

http://www.core77.com/reactor/hb_trial_error.asp

Simulation modelling eg. structural simulation:

http://www.leapaust.com.au/about/casestudies.htm

http://www.modelcraft.com.au/#path=3Dhome

Product Design Tasks
http://web.mit.edu/2.744/www/Project/Assignments/sketchModels.html

Theatre Design Models

http://www2.arts.ubc.ca/TheatreDesign/crslib/model2/premdls/premod2.htm

Yacht Design Models
http://www.h2yachtdesign.com/s_sketchmodels.php
Pretty fancy for sketch models though.

Robots

Sketch models of Robots
http://pergatory.mit.edu/2.007/contests/student%20websites/klang/sketchmode=ls.html

Massachusetts Institute Online Courseware

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

Design Galleries

The work of Charles and Ray Eames

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/eames/furniture.html

http://www.io.tudelft.nl/public/vdm/fda/fda02.htm

http://www.tmiyakawadesign.com/index.html

Bad Designs

www.totallyabsurd.com

www.patentoftheweek.com

www.lightlink.com/bbm/weird.html

www.johnny-light.com

www.baddesigns.com

3D virtual garden design program

http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/design/virtualgarden_index.shtml

Paper Projects

http://cp.c-ij.com/english/3D-papercraft/index.html

www.papertoys.com

www.flying-pig.co.uk

http://www.thetoymaker.com/2Toys.html

Windmills

This site is an aussie one. check out some of the drive mechanisms- necessity is the mother of invention.

http://www.southcom.com.au/~windmill/

Wind Generators

http://www.electusdistribution.com.au

Flight…simple fly by wire

http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/mccarthy_rtp.html

Plastics Theory

http://flexiblelearning.net.au/toolbox/series3/312.htm for more info, and this link: http://flexiblelearning.net.au/toolbox/demosites/series3/312/

D&T theory project on polymers

http://www.psrc.usm.edu/macrog/index.htm

Mind Mapping

http://www.teamwork.demon.co.uk/mind_maps/mind_basic.html

http://www.engin.umich.edu/~problemsolving/

Stages in Product Development

http://www.proen.com.au/6.shtml

Information & Communication YR7

http://www.connected-earth.com. Lots of history, worksheets and projects etc.

Transport

http://www.gizmag.com.au/go/3647/

Racing Car Design Challenge

http://www.rea.org.au or http://www.f1inschools.co.uk or

http://www.staff.vu.edu.au/sidc/

Simple Machines- Excellent

http://www.cosi.org/onlineExhibits/simpMach/sm1.html

http://www.jsd.k12.ak.us/ab/el/simplemachines.html

Wood

Techniques

www.woodshopdemos.com

Career Information.

http://www.myfuture.edu.au/services/default.asp?FunctionID=5050&ASCO=492211A#Duties

UK Web site

http://www.geoffswoodwork.co.uk/menu.htm

Wood ideas, plans for sale

www.BHG.com.au

www.freeplans.com

www.Absolutelyfreeplans.com

Inspirational Wood Turning

http://www.chaiwood.com/

CAD drawn Wood Projects

Model Planes

http://www.ballards.fsbusiness.co.uk/rtp/modelkits3.html

Wooden Puzzle

http://homepage.mac.com/jschs/kla/dt/puzzle/index.htm

Book Shelf Design

http://freshome.com/2008/02/25/30-of-the-most-creative-bookshelves-designs/

Interesting Intricate Project Kits

Check out http://www.automatashop.co.uk/search.asp?types=yes&type=Wooden+Kits

Plywood manufacture

German Veneer flowchart

http://www.becker-plyforms.de/index.cfm?PID=60172

Veneer Manufacture

http://www.cabinetparts.com/m/flexible-materials/wood-veneer/#video

Plywood detailed

http://sres-associated.anu.edu.au/fpt/plywood/intro.html

Canadian Ply

http://www.canply.org/english/products/manufacturing/manufacture.htm

Ply Manufacture Slide Show click to operate seminar One

http://www.canply.org/english/literature_media/onlineseminars.htm

Ply Plans (imperial)

http://www.canply.org/english/literature_media/plyplans.htm

Wood Work References Fee Downloads

100 or so books available for download.
http://www.evenfallstudios.com/woodworks_library/woodworks_library.html_

Timber Joints

http://www.newbyte.com/au/Focus_WoodJoints.htm

Metal

Projects (metals&Engineering VET)

http://www.waggad.det.nsw.edu.au/DO-Internet/VocEd/icf_course_metals/metals_&_engineering.htm

Go-cart designs.

http://metals.about.com/cs/metalworking/l/blprplngokarts.htm

http://www.littlecountryvillage.com/gocart.shtml

http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/lincolnmagnet/projects00/gocarts/

http://www.seyroche.com/products/gokart.htm

Sheet Metal

http://www.thesheetmetalshop.com/

http://www.cams-club.org/links/index.html

http://www.thesheetmetalshop.com/index.php?module=htmlpages&func=display&pid=128

http://www.efunda.com/processes/metal_processing/bending.cfm

http://www.trumpf.com/3.img-cust/Sh_Metal_Chapter_11-Joining.pdf

Bending Allowances

http://www.massey.ac.nz/~odiegel/bendworks/bending.pdf

Machining

Idea for Machining Theory.

http://www.mermac.com/advice.html

A site on metal machining school level includes labelled photos and video some times.

http://www-me.mit.edu/lectures/machinetools/outline.html

Machining Metals and Metalworking Resources

http://www.khake.com/page88.html Hong Kong University

Metal Lathe Drawings/info

http://www.lathes.co.uk/latheparts/index.html

Animations of engines

http://www.execulink.com/~movegrafx/V8_Engine.htm

Steel making

Link http://www.arcelor.com/index.php?page=152

Pictures steel processes

http://www.coruseducation.com/gallery.asp

Investment Casting

http://www.apecs.com.au/process/index.htm

Gear Making

There's a video of gear making on http://www.spgear.com/capablities.htm

Here's an engineering exercise making worm gears.

http://www.geocities.com/kindellism/Nylon_Worm_Gears.html

Casting an Engine block

http://www.dmdaustralia.com.au/block1.html

Car Manufacture and Maintenance

The site http://www.dmdaustralia.com is a site dedicated to the car and its manufacture and maintenance.

Finkl

http://www.finkl.com/main.htm?location=400#

Bluescope, information on steels

http://www.bluescopesteel.com.au/au/index.cfm/objectID.5DF83A5F-814F-11D5-98D200508BA5461F

Mouldable Silver & Gold

http://www.artclaysilver.com.au/

Enamel

If you look on this site you will find some Australian Suppliers of enamel
http://users.netconnect.com.au/~enamel/linkssupplier1.html

Candelabras

http://www.anvilfire.com/iForge/tutor/jd_candle2/top_index.htm

Aluminium

http://www.comalco.com.au/home/default_flash.htm#

Aluminium Education Site

http://www.comalco.com/freedom.aspx?pid=260

Aluminium Industry Organisation

http://www.world-aluminium.org/default.asp

http://www.metallurgal.com/ check out the age of aluminium page and glossary

Threads

http://www.mech.uwa.edu.au/DANotes/threads/intro/intro.html

Link to page Bolt Science with information on bolted joints.

http://www.boltscience.com/pages/basics1.htm

General Metal Resources

http://www.metalwebnews.com/mf.html

Metalcraft

http://www.metalcraftusa.com/

Metalwork Club

http://www.homemetalshopclub.org/index.html has great articles

archive and a good links page for metal workers.

Anodising

http://www.warpig.com/paintball/technical/anodize.shtml

http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~chrish/t-anodis.htm

http://www.focuser.com/atm/anodize/anodize.html

http://electrochem.cwru.edu/ed/encycl/art-a02-anodizing.htm

Blacksmithing Projects

Here's a link to a lot of projects

http://www.anvilfire.com/iForge/

Metal Working Dictionary

Dictionary of metal terms

http://www.metal-mart.com/Dictionary/dictlist.htm

Spin Cycles

www.atomiczombie.com/product-spincycle.htm<http://www.atomiczombie.com/product-spincycle.htm>

http://www.bikeforest.com

http://bikerodnkustom.homestead.com/

http://www.sheldonbrown.org.bicycle.html

Welding.

http://www.afscme.org/health/faq-weld.htm

http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/weldingcuttingbrazing/index.html

http://www.osha.gov/doc/outreachtraining/htmlfiles/weldhlth.html

http://www.usace.army.mil/inet/usace-docs/eng-manuals/em385-1-1/c-10.pdf

http://www.msha.gov/illness_prevention/healthtopics/HHICM10.HTM

http://www.sorm.state.tx.us/VolumeThree/2Chapter6/32615.htm

http://erd.dli.state.mt.us/safetyhealth/brochures/safetyhealthhazards.pdf

http://www.twi.co.uk/professional/protected/band_3/jk30.html

http://www.welding-advisers.com/

Welding Information

http://www.lincolnelectric.com/knowledge/articles/results.asp

Welding Tutorials

http://www.aussieweld.com.au/

There are some good IA links on this page for welding and grinding

http://www.norstate.com/information.html

http://www.cigweld.com.au/pages/tech.htm

http://www.liquidarc.com.au

https://boc.com.au:443 The BOC Group

http://www.thermadyne.com/cigweld/- The CIG Company

MIG

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_metal_arc_welding

Welding Safety

http://www.welding-advisers.com/Welding-helmet.html

Metal Suppliers

One Steel

www.Onesteel.com

Metaland

http://www.metaland.com.au/

Blue Scope Steel

http://www.bluescopesteel.com.au/

Bohler Udderholm

"http://www.buau.com.au/english/b_2596.htm

Sanvik

http://www.coromant.sandvik.com/

Artistic Wrought Iron Suppliers

http://www.artisticwroughtiron.com.au/products.htm

Perforated and expanded sheet metal
http://www.perforatedmetal.com.au/

Metal Exams

Teachers of Metal and Eng and Electronics may find the Victorian examinations in "Engineering Studies" of some use. They are pdf and could be used as "inspiration" for your own questions. Some questions would be relevant to the NSW Engineering Studies curriculum, but they are few.

http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vet/programs/engineering/exams.html#H2N10020

Drawing

Bike Trailer Design

http://www.biketrailers.20m.com/MAIN.htm

Reference Site

Appears to be scanned pages from texts. May have some usable information

http://www.tpub.com/content/draftsman/14040/index.htm

Drawing Basics

http://metalab.uniten.edu.my/~adzly/memb113/memb113.htm#

PowerPoint presentations which pretty much cover all engineering drawing concepts and skills.

Vectorworks Courses

Online Rhino training with movies try:

http://www.rhino3d.tv/

http://www.rhino3d.com/tutorials.htm

http://download.mcneel.com/download.asp?id=jewelry_tutorial (nice introductory jewellery one)

http://www.huntfor.com/3d/tutorials/rhino.htm (beginners)

Pro/DESKTOP

http://www.westgateclc.org/Pro%20Desktop8.htm

http://www.ashlar.com/tutorial/cabriole_legs/cabriole_leg_tutorial.pdf

www.prodesktop.net

Dubbo College Tutorials

http://www.dubbocoll-m.schools.nsw.edu.au/Training/Graphics_ProDesktop/GraphicsPD_index.htm

INTAD

Go to www.intad.asn.au follow the Pro/DESKTOP link; at the top of that page there is a ProDv8 link click it. It asks for a username & password. username: prod8 password: intadprod8

http://www.ptc.com/for/education/schools/teacher_resources.htm

Follow the Training Materials & Classroom Project link.

PTC official tutorial site for ProDesktop.

http://www.ptc.com/for/education/schools/curriculum/index.htm

Free CAD sites

TurboCad

You can get a free download of Turbocad on

http://www.downseek.com/download/21348.asp for trial purposes

www.turbocad.com

http://www.imsisoft.com/showcase.asp

As a bonus, the price is right and it comes with a pretty extensive manual.

http://www.nhcad.com/freecad/

If you are of the CATIA /SolidWorks crowd and have heard about Cosmic Blobs, then http://cbmodelpro.com/

PowerDraft,

http://www.be.org/en-US/BE+Careers/BE+Careers+Network/

My Virtual Home

http://www.MyVirtualHome.com.au

Small Blue Printer

http://www.smallblueprinter.com/ver5.html

Ikea Free CAD

http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_AU/rooms_ideas/kitchen/download.html

http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_GB/rooms_ideas/office/office_planner.html

Graphisoft, Archcad

http://www.graphisoft.com/community/education/downloads/

Development Software – Tabs

http://www.aspexsoftware.com/tabs.htm

Graphics Samples

http://www.plma.com.au/ImageGallery.asp and http://homepage.mac.com/jschs/kla/klaframeset.html

Cartooning

http://www.noogy.com Site shows animation and the process with terrific examples.

Product Drawing

Great site for generating student interest.

http://download.novedge.com/Gallery.asp?GID=Ashlar_Cobalt_01

SketchUp Alternative CAD '

www.karelcad.com.au/SketchUp.htm

Drawing Bricks

If you want your students to generate & use different brick bitmaps Go to http://www.brick.com/

Australian Architecture

The ARC website http://arc.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au has a sample yr10 assessment task for architecture on it. A few excellent ones that form the basis of teaching resource:

http://www.architecture.com.au/i-cms?page=57

http://www.heritage.vic.gov.au/pages/pdfs/what_house.pdf

http://www.periodhomerenovator.com/assets/article_archives/BG2002_Style_Guide.pdf

http://www.periodhomerenovator.com/assets/article_archives/BG2003_Low_res_Pdf/PHRBG2003_Style_Guide.pdf

http://www.periodhomerenovator.com/assets/article_archives/BG05_Style_Guide.pdf

http://www.canberrahouse.com.au/styles.html

http://www.periodhomerenovator.com/assets/article_archives/16_4Fred_Knight.pdf

Additional detail:

http://www.periodhomerenovator.com/assets/article_archives/17_2day_in_the_life.pdf

http://www.periodhomerenovator.com/assets/article_archives/16_4Fretwork.pdf

http://www.periodhomerenovator.com/assets/article_archives/16_5colour.pdf

http://www.periodhomerenovator.com/assets/article_archives/16_5country_cottage.pdf

http://www.periodhomerenovator.com/assets/article_archives/16_2_frank_llyd_wright.pdf

http://www.periodhomerenovator.com/assets/article_archives/16_2_art_deco.pdf

http://www.periodhomerenovator.com/assets/article_archives/16_4_Melbourne_1960.pdf

http://www.periodhomerenovator.com/assets/article_archives/15_5_sydney1950BeachHouse.pdf

http://www.periodhomerenovator.com/assets/article_archives/16_2_art_deco.pdf

http://www.periodhomerenovator.com/assets/article_archives/16_2Fireplaces_period_guide.pdf

Images galore: http://www.deh.gov.au/cgi-bin/heritage/photodb/imagesearch.pl

Other potentially useful ones

http://www.canterbury.nsw.gov.au/library/resource/resthous.htm

http://www.hht.nsw.gov.au/education/k__12_subject_areas/design_and_technology

http://www.heritage.gov.au/ourhouse/intro.html

http://www.ashfield.nsw.gov.au/files/heritage/HouseStylesinAshfield.pdf

http://www.walkingmelbourne.com/architectural_guide.html

http://www.sydneyarchitecture.com/STYLES/search-style.htm

http://www.sydneyarchitecture.com/GALL/GALL-GENERAL.htm

http://www.architecture.com.au/i-cms?page=1.23.57

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_architectural_styles

http://www.allegria.com.au/houses/house_styles.htm

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.heritage.vic.gov.au/pages/pdfs/what_house.pdf

American influence/parallels:

http://historicbldgs.com/styles.htm

Explaination of Graphics Types (flash)

http://www.lyndale.vic.edu.au/visual/drawingsystems.html

Multi Media

Flash Lessons

http://lessonplans.btskinner.com/multimedia.html

GIF Movies

http://www.gamani.com/

Metal Textures

For use in presentations http://mayang.com/textures/Metal/html/Patterned%20Metal/index.html

Game Making Software

www.yoyogames.com

http://scratch.mit.edu/

Drawing Courseware

This website covers the basics of yr 9&10 Graphics and basic Engineering
Studies drawing as a good overview.
http://www.ider.herts.ac.uk/school/courseware/graphics/index.html

Pro/Concept in ProDesktop or ProEngineer.

http://www.proetools.com/courses/pro_concept/what_is.htm

http://www.ptc.com/products/proengineer/proconcept

Electronics

ON LINE Training

Electronics - Secondary Teachers Education Program - CEC Electronics Training Course 7775

www.radioelectronicschool.com

www.electronics-tutorials.com

http://www.sea.siemens.com/step/default.html

Follow the mind map for great explanations of concepts

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html

Electricity and Electronics Training Series

Electricity/Electronics course. From Navy There are 24 modules with a total of 47mb. http://lazygator.n4jsb.net

Digital Electronics

http://www.pa.ash.org.au/tefa/esnet1.html

Nan Gates

http://www.utdallas.edu/~hxh017200/cs2110/Tutorial.html and http://users.senet.com.au/~dwsmith/beginners.htm

Motors

From our US colleagues, PDF, 36 pages some excellent stuff on motors http://www.iteawww.org/TTT/sept04.pdf

http://fly.hiwaay.net/~palmer/motor.html

http://www.simplemotor.com/myself.htm

http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/stripped_down_motor.html

http://www.scitoys.com/scitoys/scitoys/electro/electro.html

http://www.orchardproject.org/electric_motor.htm

Teaching Resources

http://www.eng.bcit.ca/tted/electronics/index.htm British Columbia Electronics Teachers

http://www.doctronics.co.uk/design.htm

http://www.crocodile-clips.com/index.htm

http://maxwell.me.gu.edu.au/workshops/teacher_workshop/mainpage.htm

http://www.talkingelectronics.com/te_interactive_index.html

http://www.crocodile-clips.com/en/Absorb_Electronics_for_GCSE_-_Sample_Units/ -

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/g_knott/

http://www.science-ebooks.com/electronics/basic_electronics.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/design/electronics/

http://www.cdselectronics.com/

http://www.dtonline.org/apps/infopage/app?3&1&1&0&1&0

http://www.101science.com/Radio.htm

http://www.technologystudent.com/elec1/elecex.htm

http://www.electronics-tutorials.com/

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~jcgl/Scots_Guide/intro/electron.htm

http://www.design-technology.info/electronics/default.htm

http://www.kpsec.freeuk.com/

http://library.thinkquest.org/16497/basic/index.html and http://library.thinkquest.org/12666/basiccal.htm

Resources

http://www.school-electronics.co.uk/

www.radioelectronicschool.com

http://www.ecawa.asn.au/home/jfuller/electronics/electronic1.htm

http://www.redcircuits.com/Homerel.htm

http://www.southwest.com.au/~jfuller/electronics/menu.htm

http://www.technologystudent.com/elec1/elecex.htm

Australian Electronics

Electronics Australia Magazine - http://www.electronicsaustralia.com.au/

Dick Smith Electronics- http://www.dse.com.au

Altronics - http://www.altronics.com.au/

Worldwide Electronic Components - http://users.wantree.com.au/~worcom

Tandy Australia - http://www.tandy.com.au/

Jaycar Electronics - http://www.jaycar.com.au/

Allthings S&S - http://www.allthings.com.au/

Electus - http://www.electusdistribution.com.au/

Junior Engineering Studies

This site includes some materials prepared by a group of teachers who got together recently to talk about Engineering in Industrial Technology Stage 5.

http://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/engineering/index.htm

There are pictures and some lesson materials also – worth a good look.

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/10/two_scout_trebu.html