Here are suggested ways to engage students with this interactive activity and with activities related to this topic.

• Doing research projects—individual: Have students do a Web search to hunt for community colleges, technical colleges, and universities with programs in advanced manufacturing technologies. What programs are available in your state or region?
• Doing research projects—individual: Have students choose a particular career from the interactive activity that interests them, such as machinist or environmental science and protection technician. Have them do further research and write a short paper that explains why this career interests them and that describes the educational requirements and potential job opportunities (including salary range).
• Doing a Classroom activity: Create activity stations that feature skills that would be needed in some of the advanced manufacturing technologies positions highlighted in the interactive. For example, at a model maker station, you could provide students with materials (such as paperboard, glue, hobby knives, and scale model rulers) and ask them to make a scale model of a chair. [Note: Have classroom safety procedures in place if using cutting tools. For example, students could use a cutting board or mat, a metal safety ruler, and sturdy matte knives.]
• Doing research projects—groups: Working in small groups, have students imagine that they are starting a manufacturing company (to manufacture, for example, potato chips, bicycles, clothing, video games, plastic containers, or cleaning products). Tell them to identify which of the positions in this interactive activity would be needed in their company and describe the responsibilities of each position relative to the making of their product. Have each group give a presentation about their company to the rest of the class.
• Doing a Classroom activity: Contact local professional organizations or companies to find one or two guest speakers who work in advanced manufacturing technologies. Before they come and speak to your class, have students prepare questions to ask the speakers.

For more media and information about the topics in these Teaching Tips, see these links:

• To learn more about careers in technology, check out Careers in Information and Security Technologies, Careers in Agricultural and Environmental Technologies, and Careers in Engineering Technologies.
• To learn more about manufacturing technologies, check out Biomanufacturing Supervisor, Testing the Quality of Wheat Products, and Plastic Race Car Competition.

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