PayneJunior High School

Project Lead the Way

Gateway to Technology Engineering

Mrs. Thornton

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Phone: (480)224-2467

Who Is PLTW?:

Project Lead the Way (PLTW) prepares students to be the most innovative and productive leaders in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) and to make meaningful, pioneering contributions to our world. PLTW partners with middle schools and high schools to provide a rigorous, relevant STEM education. Through an engaging, hands-on curriculum, PLTW encourages the development of problem-solving skills, critical thinking, creative and innovative reasoning, and a love of learning. The PLTW middle and high school STEM education programs give students a brighter future by providing them with a foundation and proven path to college and career success in STEM-related fields. STEM education is at the heart of today’s high-tech, high-skill global economy. For America to remain economically competitive, our next generation of leaders must develop the critical-reasoning and problem-solving skills that will help make them the most productive in the world. PLTW sparks the ingenuity, creativity, and innovation within all of our students.

Course Outline:

Gateway to Technology's cutting-edge program addresses the interest and energy of middle school students, while incorporating national standards in math, science and technology. GTT is "activity oriented" to show students how technology is used in engineering to solve everyday problems. The instructional units excite and motivate students to use their imaginations and teach them to be creative and innovative, while gaining the skills they need to develop, produce and use products and services.

Focused Topics:

-Design and Modeling -Automation and Robotics -Energy and the Environment

Materials Used:

  • Project Lead the Way has a variety of lessons that were designed by both teachers and professors in the engineering field of study.
  • Autodesk Inventor (Computer Aided Drafting) Software
  • Robopro (computer programming) Software

Materials Needed:

  • 1” Binder (Engineering Notebook), Pencils, spiral bound notebook(graphed style preferred)and FLASH DRIVEat least 2G

Grading Policy:

The Project Lead the Way course will be graded on the various projects, class work and homework that will be given out throughout the semester.

Late Work Policy:

Homework/classwork will only be accepted 1 day after the due date for a 50% reduction in grade. After the 1 day, there will be no credit given for that assignment.

Make-Up Assignments/Tests/Labs:

Students will only be given the same number of days that they were absent to make up the work that they missed. Students will have opportunities to fix failed tests and quizzes and given a passing grade.

Grading Scale:

97 – 100% = A+ 83 – 86% = B 70 – 72% = C- 59% or Lower = F

93 – 96% = A 80 – 82% = B- 67 – 69% = D+

90 – 92% = A- 77 – 79% = C+ 63 – 67% = D

87 – 89% = B+ 73 - 76% = C 60 – 62% = D-

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