This site allows students to design a bridge based on various distances. students get to choose ideal bridge design for most economical results. students are judge on solving the problem for the least amount of money.
Photo Course is a great resource for photography. It covers many subjects and has interactive images and examples for beggining photography units. shows good examples and helps with understanding how a camera works before the student uses the camera.
This site hosts high quality photos for the airline industry. The sections i utilize in class is the rejection guide. They give many great examples and explanations for why photos get rejected based on composition and quality. The examples are high quality and contain many unique and creative shots.
This site hosts contests for users in various catagories. We utilize the photoshop contests to challenge the students on new creative projects. The site has many different catagories so it allows students many choices and options so they can choose something they are interested in. I mostly utilize this with independant study students; have them choose a catagory and it has a deadline to submit final work, and then i evaluate based on the tools and techniques they utilized.
great resource for teachers and students for how things work for just about every topic/subject. all information is up-to date and many photos are included.
this site helps teachers to create their own crossword puzzles and allows to save as a PDF file. very few sites focus on vocational classes, so this site is helpful to create documents to help students study exactly what is covered in class.