The links below provide resources for meeting the the technological design goal (competency goal 2) in the North Carolina Standard Course of Study for middle school.
Exploravision
a contest for students
LEGO Mindstorms
use LEGOs to explore robotics. Includes a searchable activity bank.
Pencil Inventions
Lessons on inventing a new kind of pencil
Official site of Rube Goldberg
Invention Dimensions
From MIT
Building Big Forces Lab
Online lab for exploring forces on structures
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