Things That Go TV! is a channel for children (2 to 6 years) to discover and explore the world around them. Introduced by Reggie the Roo, Things That Go TV! profiles scenes from the park, road, building site, waterways and illustrates anything that moves including tractors & trucks, cars & bicycles, boats & trains and diggers!
Engineering Reader Reviews
The following site reviews were submitted by readers like you. Discovered (or created) a cool site we should know about? Click here to add URL.Crafty Builders – Children’s Animation
October 6, 2014 -- Submitted by Nadav Sagir, a parent from Slovenia, who is not affiliated with the site.
Crafty Builders is an animated children’s series, created with the goal to inspire the imagination and actively promote play with wooden building blocks.
Movement of Data – Journey
October 5, 2014 -- Submitted by Maria Edaw, a teacher from London, England, United Kingdom., who is not affiliated with the site.
This is a fab online resource for older children who are interested in the tech side of how an email works. He spent out hours following the journey that the email took, and following its path. Some of the content is quite jargony, but the animation and the interactive scrolling keeps his attention.
Guide Me NACME: A Road Map to Engineering
May 5, 2006 -- From Bryan, a teacher from New York who is affiliated with the site
Guide Me NACME offers middle and high school students a lively, robust introduction to engineering. It includes video and text profiles of real engineers, brief introductions to various engineering fields, and hundreds of links to schools, fun sites, organizations and career sites.
Women in Engineering Organization Web site
March 21, 2002 -- From Ellen, a reader from Massachusetts, who is affiliated with the site
An important site to help advance the number of girls entering the field of engineering. One-stop clearinghouse of local and national educational and career programs for female engineers categorized by age (kindegarten through college)and their parents, as well as educational programs and information for their teachers, counselors, and program directors. Site also features an awards program and an easy user interface to register programs. Developed by Tufts University’s School of Engineering in conjunction with the Society of Women Engineers and the Women’s Engineering Advocacy and Program Network and funded by a grant from the GE Fund.
Manufacturing is Cool
November 13, 2001 -- From Mark, a reader from Dearborn, Michigan who is affiliated with the site
Manufacturing is Cool is a K-12 web site that contains information and links for students to competitions, summer camps, scholarship money, career information and more. Teachers will find the curricula resource area especially helpful. The web site is sponsored by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.
Secrets of a Master Builder
October 17, 2000 -- From Lisa Cerqueira, a reader from Boston who is affiliated with the site
He was America’s greatest engineer: an obsessive visionary who walked the floor of the Mississippi River, built the nation’s first ironclad ships, designed a steel bridge no one thought possible, and opened the country’s heartland to trade with a daring river control system. A bold entrepreneur and charming promoter, James Buchanan Eads created a series of technological marvels that changed the course of American history and inspired a new generation of engineers.
