Project Probase is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop high school level
technology education curricula. The Probase curricula will
help prepare high school students who plan to go on to community
college technician education programs or university-level
engineering programs.
During the three-year project, a set of eight
learning learning units for the 11th and 12th grade levels
will be developed. These learning units will use hands-on
problem-solving activities to teach fundamentals of technology
in the fields of agriculture, information and communications,
entertainment and recreation, energy and power, transportation,
medicine, construction and manufacturing.
The learning units focus on core concepts identified
in Standards for Technological Literacy: Content for the
Study of Technology, a comprehensive content framework
for technology education in elementary and secondary schools
as well as Bridge Competencies developed in conjunction with
a consortium of central Illinois community college partners.
The project looks forward to field-testing the learning units
in a variety of high schools.
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