//this currently contains a lot of EiE quotes. Eventually, these could be pulled apart into sections: PD quotes, student quotes, etc. var rand1 = (Math.ceil(39 * Math.random())) //the number followwing "Math.ceil(" needs to equal the number of quotes below //if you are in dreamweaver, this number will be in red //this line creates a random integer between 1 and the number in the formula //this number (variable) is named "rand1" if (rand1==1) //if the numberical (integer) value of rand1 = 1, the following text will be displayed // " creates a quotation mark (a " cannot be used as it has another meaning in the code) // tags are used to italicise the person the quote is atributed to //the
tag is a soft return //all parenthesis and curly brackets must be in the correct places or the code won't work! //AND double check your apostrophes, they need to be vertical, not the slanted/curly ones {document.write(""I would not have attempted to present a unit on engineering previously. Now I can't wait to do it."
-5th/6th grade teacher, Workshop participant")} if (rand1==2) //so, if the interger vaule of rand1 = 2 , this text will be dispalyed. and so on... {document.write(""I now have an idea how to incorporate it in my classroom. I've already been teaching technology without knowing it and talking about engineering improvements, now I can have them experience it."
-4th grade teacher, Workshop participant")} if (rand1==3) {document.write(""This workshop helped me see a lot of the different types of engineering and provided me with activities/suggestions on how to better educate my students in those areas."
-5th grade teacher, Workshop participant")} if (rand1==4) {document.write(""I definitely will include engineering design as part of my curriculum."
-5th grade teacher, Workshop participant")} if (rand1==5) {document.write(""I feel that I can enthusiastically and competently incorporate the engineering design process into my curriculum and can also increase students' awareness of the range of possible careers within the field of engineering."
-3rd/4th grade teacher, Workshop participant")} if (rand1==6) {document.write(""...this field of study will ... empower [students] to use their own designs to solve problems in everyday life."
-4th grade teacher, Workshop participant")} if (rand1==7) {document.write(""I have always been science-phobic, and i am now ... excited about teaching these things to my students. I know they will love the experience."
-4th grade teacher, Workshop participant")} if (rand1==8) {document.write(""[EiE units] allow for a great deal of exploration and will reach many different learning styles in the classroom. I am sure there will not be a bored child in the room when these units are presented."
-1st-12th grade specialist, Workshop participant")} if (rand1==9) {document.write(""[EiE units] are well thought out, with great activities, excellent stories, can't wait to begin using them."
-5th grade teacher, Workshop participant")} if (rand1==10) {document.write(""Teaching these concepts to young children is really all about showing them that science and technology and design is very creative and is a lot of fun. Kids who do not perform well in math do not need to be fearful that this will be over their heads."
-3rd/4th grade teacher, Workshop participant")} if (rand1==11) {document.write(""Technology is EVERYTHING! This is a valuable lesson to teach children. I have started to look at my environment a little differently, saying 'Hey, an engineer designed that!'"
-3rd/4th/5th grade teacher, Workshop participant")} if (rand1==12) {document.write(""Yes, I will definitately ... bring engineering and technology to my students. I know they will love the experience as much as I did."
-4th grade teacher, Workshop participant")} if (rand1==13) {document.write(""Very hands on and user friendly."
-5th grade teacher, Workshop participant")} if (rand1==14) {document.write(""WOW! Engineering is so simple, I've been doing it my whole life... I never knew that I was always engineering new technology."
-4th grade teacher, Workshop participant")} if (rand1==15) {document.write(""A child can be an engineer without knowing it - and to think they could become an engineer as an adult, a respected and lucrative career, [and it] may not ever have occured to them before. I teach inner city youths ... and would love to see an engineer emerge someday. All because they have been exposed to the possibility at an early age."
-4th/5th/6th grade teacher, Workshop participant")} if (rand1==16) {document.write(""I'm the technology teacher in my building, I plan to leave the computer lab and teach the design process in clssrooms with follow up activities in the computer lab. This has made me think of my job in a different light."
-3rd/4th/5th grade technology teacher, Workshop participant")} if (rand1==17) {document.write(""I will teach engineering now!"
-3rd grade teacher, Workshop participant")} if (rand1==18) {document.write(""I will use these units with excitement. Two or three units really match with our curriculum this year and they will clearly enrich my students' learning."
-1st grade teacher, Workshop participant")} if (rand1==19) {document.write(""Before the course, I thought engineering was some unknown and somewhat mystical profession for people smart in science and math. ...I will impart to my students that we can all think like engineers."
-K-5 science specialist, Workshop participant")} if (rand1==20) {document.write(""Children have not only limited but more often erroneous ideas about engineers. This workshop has me excited about engineering and I hope to pass this enthusiasm on to all my students, especially the girls."
-2nd grade teacher, workshop participant")} if (rand1==21) {document.write(""I'm hopeful to infect a passion for this learning in a generation of new learners."
-2nd grade teacher, Workshop participant")} if (rand1==22) {document.write(""[I will] definately change my whole approach to teaching Science -- from a one dimensional focus on experiments -- to a more multi-faceted approach utilizing the Design Process..."
-5th grade teacher, Workshop participant")} if (rand1==23) {document.write(""I am excited to bring this curriculum back to my school so that our students can benefit from the design projects. I feel that they are going to be instrumental in introducing my students, who are inner city children, to a world that they know very little about."
-4th grade teacher, Workshop participant")} if (rand1==24) {document.write(""[EiE units] fill a crucial gap in our current science curriculum and I can see many ways in which they will fit beautifully with the science we currently teach. Specifically, I think they will help to make the science come alive for students as they apply their knowledge to create useful, effective, and efficient solutions to real-world problems."
-3rd grade teacher, Workshop participant")} if (rand1==25) {document.write(""As an engineer, it is so gratifying to see not only the breadth of what you all have done, but the manner in which in was done. It is very first class! So I am talking it up to everyone who crosses my path."
-Engineer, Workshop participant")} if (rand1==26) //if the numberical (integer) value of rand1 = 1, the following text will be displayed {document.write(""[After using EiE,] my kids are speaking more. Some of my shyest students are volunteering to be project managers."
-pilot teacher, Workshop participant")} if (rand1==27) //and if the interger vaule of rand1 = 2 , this text will be dispalyed. {document.write(""Two teachers are piloting the Wind Unit and I had the opportunity to participate in one of the 5th grade classrooms. The kids were so excited to be doing the hands on experiments and building and problem solving. I loved to watch them design, think, and redesign. It was truly something to watch!!"
-Parent, working to bring EiE to her child's school")} if (rand1==28) {document.write(""This workshop helped me see a lot of the different types of engineering and provided me with activities/suggestions on how to better educate my students in those areas."
-5th grade teacher, Workshop participant")} if (rand1==29) {document.write(""We have had some great conversations about technology, as we have already studied how Colonial Americans lived, and visited Slater's Mill to see the advancements from an agricultural to an industrial society. We are having fun as we learn!!!"
-3rd grade teacher")} if (rand1==30) //if the numberical (integer) value of rand1 = 1, the following text will be displayed {document.write(""I enjoyed learning about technology and engineering. My favorite activity was the windmill. Some people in our class got 20 marbles in their cup. It was very fun watching other groups and designing my group's blades. I wish we could work on the activities longer."
-5th grade student")} if (rand1==31) //and if the interger vaule of rand1 = 2 , this text will be dispalyed. {document.write(""I think that learning about technology and engineering process through the "Catching the Wind" was a fun way of learning. You did an excellent job preparing the kits and the directions were not the least bit confusing! Great job! PS. Usually I don't really like science, but for that unit I liked it."
-5th grade student")} if (rand1==32) {document.write(""I wish we had school tomorrow so we could do this some more."
-3rd grade student")} if (rand1==33) {document.write(""I'm not a science person, and this is so user friendly."
-Workshop Participant")} if (rand1==34) {document.write(""It is exciting to hear the kids talking about being engineers, carrying their engineering notebooks around the school and seeing the EiE design process prominently displayed all over the school"
-Workshop Participant")} if (rand1==35) {document.write(""I am impressed with the clarity of your lesson plans and at how accessible and useful your ancillary worksheets and activities are. Elementary teachers who don't have a specific engineering background will find this series quite user-friendly."
-Susan Hyde (suite101.com)")} if (rand1==36) {document.write(""Now I know how engineers feel when things that they design don't work the first time, but I still want to be one."
-5th grade student")} if (rand1==37) {document.write(""Overall I really like the EIE program. I have found that students are able to understand what an engineer does and how we are all like engineers everyday. I also really like that the [Museum] has tried to connect the engineering curriculums to match what teachers already teach. We have so many pieces of curriculum that are added each year, that one more thing is not what we need. But the EIE units fit in perfectly."
-1st grade teacher")} if (rand1==38) {document.write(""...I loved the entire Engineering program. I think it is a great way to look at the process and teach children how vital and easy engineering is. I know that I didn't realize that I used engineering all the time until it was defined for me..."
-4th grade teacher")} if (rand1==39) {document.write(""...it [EiE] is the BEST BEST BEST science program I have used in the classroom... The kids never wanted the unit we did (Water Water Everywhere) and the story of Salila's turtle to end :) The way the program engages student's thinking was the best part and my kiddos made connections with the Engineering Design Process and the way I taught math - it's just really a great program! If you can participate, I encourage you to do so - it's amazing :)"
-4th grade teacher, Workshop participant")}