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"An Equipment Legacy, Enriching the World" Video
Now Available to Teachers FREE.
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Schooling for the Real World
By Adria Steinberg, Kathleen Cushman & Robert Riordan
This book gives powerful voice to what career and technical educators
have been saying for years; that work-based learning is appropriate,
even vital, for all students. It offer snapshots of nationally recognized
schools that are making real progress toward the genuine integration
of school, the workplace and the larger community, and offers useful
tips about designing projects, creating learning goals and making
internships work.
Offered by ACTE.
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Technology
Funding for Schools
By David G. Bauer
This complete grant-seeking toolkit for administrators, teachers,
parents and policymakers spells out how to best articulate your
technology needs and seek funds from foundations, corporations,
government sources, individuals and others. And it's filled with
helpful worksheets, sample forms, spreadsheets, Web links, and the
like - many of which you can instantly store on your computer by
accessing them from a disc that comes with the book.
Offered
by ACTE.
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Curriculum Development in Vocational and Technical Education
By Curtis R. Finch & John R. Crunkilton
This brand-new edition of a heralded guide offers practitioners
basic principles applicable to a variety of career and technical
areas, practical examples for curriculum development in specific
areas and discussion of concerns at both the secondary and postsecondary
levels.
Offered by ACTE.
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Designing
Challenging Vocational Courses
By Gene Bottoms, David J. Pucel & Ione Phillips
This guide from the Southern Regional Education Board presents steps
to be taken and a sample course of syllabus to meet the goal of
raising the achievements of career-bound youth.
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ACTE.
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Classroom
Speaker Go-Kits:
Mineral Education in Your Community
Designed to help anyone from a mining company or supplier to give
classroom presentations about the importance of coal and minerals.
Offered by ACTE.
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Facts, Not Fear: Teaching Children About the Environment
by Michael Sanera and Jane S. Shaw
Helps parents reverse the growing trend toward using scare-tactics
when talking to children about environmental consciousness.
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Caterpillar
Chronicle: The History of the World's Greatest Earthmovers
by Eric C Orlemann
This colorful Caterpillar chronicle is loaded with modern photography
and rare images from the company's previously unaccessible archives.
The all-inclusive retrospective is a visual and informational feast,
beginning with the tractors and heavy machinery built under the
Best and Holt monikers as long ago as 1885, and continuing on to
today's giant earthmovers.
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Heavy Equipment
by Erik Bruun
A big book (133/4 inches square) describes big machines, providing
eye-popping pictures of the monsters at work and good explanations
of how they lift, dig, crush, mine, push earth and carry huge loads.
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Construction (Discovering Careers for Your Future)
by Robert Green
Explores the top twenty careers in construction in terms of the nature of the work, educational or training requirements, getting started, advancement possibilities, salary, employment outlook, and sources of more information.
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Cool Careers for Girls in Construction
by Ceel Pasternak & Linda Thornburg
Even in the twenty-first century, girls may still see their career
options through their grandmothers' eyes: limited by gender. The
Cool Careers for Girls series challenges that view by presenting
nontraditional job paths and profiling interesting, appealing women
who have successfully followed them. Here women in construction
careers ranging from architect to ironworker are profiled, with
the authors providing basic information about the job, the salary
range, the daily routine, and training.
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Contract
Engineering: Start and Build a New Career
by Amanda G. Watlington & Roger L. Radeloff
Tens of thousands of engineers in all industries have been downsized
out of their jobs in recent years. This is the first book that
shows them how they can tap into the career option of contract
engineering.
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Exploring Careers in Construction
by National Center for Construction Education
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Exploring
Careers in the Construction Industry
by Elizabeth S. Lytle
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Real
People Working in Building and Construction (On the Job Series)
by Blythe Camenson
Using dozens of personal interviews, this engaging series demonstrates
what it's like to work in today's hottest fields. Real-life practicing
professionals reveal how they got started, how they spend their
days, and how they feel about their work.
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Construction
(Careers in Focus Series)
by J. G. Ferguson
Explores the top twenty-seven careers in construction in terms of the nature of the work, educational or training requirements, getting started, advancement possibilities, salary, employment outlook, and sources of more information.
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How
to Succeed With Your Own Construction Business
by Stephen Diller
Everything you need to start your own construction business: setting up the paperwork, finding the work, advertising, using contracts, dealing with lenders, estimating, scheduling, finding and keeping good employees, keeping the books, and coping with success.
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Building
(Careers Without College Series)
by Peterson's
This edition is out of print and no new edition is planned at this time.
Saws buzz. Hammers whack. Whether carpenters are framing a house, installing French doors or building forms for concrete walls, they are working with a material that feels good beneath their hands.
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Popular Science Complete Book of Power Tools
by R. J. De Cristoforo
This single-volume comprehensive encyclopedia includes easy-to-understand explanations of hundreds of woodworking techniques, descriptions of various power tools and their accessories, and tool usage and safety.
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Cranes
and Derricks
by Howard Shapiro, Jay P. Shapiro, and Lawrence K. Shapiro
Revised and updated edition of a comprehensive survey of the capabilities,
advantages, and disadvantages of all types of cranes and derricks.
Includes an updated discussion of the safety and liability issues.
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Yellow
Steel: The Story of the Earthmoving Equipment Industry
by William R. Haycraft
Extensively illustrated and packed with detailed information
on both manufacturers and machines, Yellow Steel knits together
the diverse stories of the many companies that created the earthmoving
equipment industry.
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Dictionary
of Civil Engineering & Construction Machinery & Equipment
Vol. 1
by Herbert Bucksch
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ROK Works Start Set
Rokenbok's most popular Start Set includes everything you need to start building, driving and taking control! Features the versatile RC Loader vehicle and the automatic, motorized conveyor. Grab your hard-hat and go!
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Road
Construction Ahead (VHS)
Bulldozers, stone-crushers, and dump trucks dominate this half-hour
video aimed at the construction vehicle-obsessed kid. An affable
guide, the hard-hatted "George," supplies narration.
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Mighty
Construction Machines (VHS)
Mighty Construction Machines is a simple half-hour video that's
likely to get young truck lovers' wheels turning, and not just
the ones on their Tonka toys.
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