The ITE STEM Committee has developed and curated K-12 outreach resources that are relevant to the transportation industry and the broader STEM community. Click on a link below to go to a specific STEM Resource section:
Contact us at STEM@ite.org ITE Members:
Students/Parents/Teachers:
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Activities for All Ages |
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All Ages - Transportation Search
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Preschool and Elementary Activities |
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Preschool and Elementary – Transportation Line Up |
Preschool and Elementary – Traffic Waves with Marbles |
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Elementary Activities |
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Elementary – Snow Plowing |
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Elementary – Streets Have Personality Game |
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Elementary - Traffic Counts and Signal Timing |
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Elementary - Intersection Safety |
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Elementary – Friction and Ramps |
Elementary/Middle School Activities |
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Elementary/Middle – Pedestrian Signal Timing |
Middle School Activities |
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Middle - Traveling Around Town |
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Middle - Can I Stop In Time? |
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Middle - Traffic Engineering Equipment |
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Middle - Sign the Way |
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Middle - Points of Conflict |
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Middle - Analyzing Traffic Counts of an Intersection |
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Middle – Hallway Congestion |
High School Activities |
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High - Circles, Arcs, and Tangents: the Geometry of Our Roadways |
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High - Roundabouts vs. All-Way Stop-Controlled Intersections |
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High - Transportation and Climate Change Action Hour |
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High - Transportation Trends and Tech Research |
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High – Considering the Safety Benefits of Autonomous Vehicles In addition to ITE’s new activities, these sites all have transportation-related activities:
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2019 Eye on Engineering Webinar for Students |
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How to Put on Effective K-12 Outreach Programs |
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Educational Outreach: Everyone Can Do It! |
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Transportation Engineering |
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Careers in Transportation and Engineering |
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Careers in Transportation Planning |
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Can Bike Manitoba |
These sites have information about transportation engineering and planning careers:
These sites have general information about introducing kids to engineering:
Baylor University recently published the toolkit "How to Identify Effective STEM Activities for Children” that helps parents and teachers know what to look for in a STEM lesson and offers nine examples of quality online resources. Read the full article here: https://onlinegrad.baylor.edu/resources/identify-effective-stem-activities-children/. (Baylor’s EdD online in Learning and Organizational Change.)
These sites have many K-12 activities but they are not necessarily transportation-related:
From this site you can order a set of interactive materials designed to be used in Primary Schools, Secondary Schools, Colleges and Universities to showcase careers in transport (from the UK):
The ITE STEM Committee is providing the following resources to assist ITE Sections and local chapters that wish to host STEM events as part of the Innov8 day in November 2020.
The suggested activities have been selected to provide maximum flexibility in the event that activities must
be hosted in a virtual environment due to COVID-19. Resources are differentiated by student level, and
described in the following sections.
Learn more about these Innov8 Event resources as well as the Distracted Driving Challenge, a new high school STEM activity developed for this year’s 2020 Innov8 Event: National STEM Day. The Distracted Driving Challenge uses Arial font so that it can be easily edited to customize event dates, local contacts, etc.
Learn more about the Future City Competition Program: https://futurecity.org
Learn how you can get involved with the Future City Competition program in your region: https://futurecity.org/regions
Future City 2020 Transportation Award Winner
City Name: Salt Lake City
Team Members: Allison Rice, Nicolas Yendrzeski, Marley Polosky
Educator: Janell Hudson
Mentor: Robyn Rice
School: Maricopa Wells Middle School
Future City Region: Arizona
Future City 2018 Transportation Award Winner
The 2019 K–12 STEM competition, designed to promote, encourage, and celebrate STEM-related activities among ITE members. The 2019 competition had a fantastic turnout with 13 entries total. This year, two categories were offered—one for small projects, and one for large.
The Georgia ITE Section/GA Chapter of the Southern District took home the prize in the Large Category for its project, “GA ITE STEM Day 2019.” On STEM Day, members from across the Georgia Section visited local schools to teach students about the transportation profession and helped promote our industry to the next generation.
The National Capital Section/Carleton University Chapter within the Canadian District was the winner of the Small Category for its project, “Intro to Transportation Engineering.” During the event, participants ages 11-14 got the chance to work with real transportation engineers and engineering students to solve hypothetical transportation problems set in their community.
Both winners will receive $250 to use toward future STEM related projects and activities in their area. Stay tuned for a full overview of the award winning projects, photos, and a competition overview in the February ITE Journal.
Have you been asked to share what you do with younger students? The activities and presentations below are specific to introducing K-12 kids to what ITE does – transportation!