The DriveOhio Educator Toolkit is a collection of free resources and information created by DriveOhio for educators to use to incorporate advanced mobility topics into STEM education and career opportunities. Designed for K-12 and Career Technical Educators, the toolkit includes curriculum and materials; grants and funding; career connections; and professional development resources to interest and engage students in advanced mobility and STEM education through hands-on learning experiences. The curriculum contains lesson plans aligned by grade band and core competency, video demonstrations, and a variety of career opportunities, webinars, and connections. Example topics include electric vehicles, drones, self-driving vehicles, and more.

DriveOhio has compiled multiple resources related to transportation career choices and connections for students that teachers, advisors, or other interested parties can leverage to learn more about the growing field of mobility careers. DriveOhio offers a free webinar series featuring interviews with industry leaders in related mobility fields and allowing for live Q&A sessions with attendees. This content also connects to the Ohio Career Connections Framework, which is a planning tool for Ohio school districts allowing students to develop a vision and strategic career plan. This framework connects affiliated college and career readiness programming allowing students to graduate into high-quality, in-demand occupations.

To support educators in offering immersive, K-12 “hands on” learning, DriveOhio has curated free curriculum organized by educational topic and grade bands. The curriculum activities are scalable, flexible, and modular. Each curriculum topic contains a list of necessary resources and a detailed lesson plan to walk educators through step-by-step. DriveOhio offers a variety of curriculum for topics including: Electric Vehicles and Charging Stations; Automated Vehicles and Delivery Robots; Drones, Advanced Air Mobility, and Vertiports; Connected Vehicles and Intersections; and Smart City Planning. DriveOhio has also compiled extra resources related to the curriculum for both teachers and students to learn more.

The DriveOhio Educator Toolkit Document provides an overview of the program and its benefits. The DriveOhio Educator Toolkit is a collection of free resources and information created by DriveOhio for educators to use to incorporate advanced mobility topics into STEM education and career opportunities. Designed for K-12 and Career Technical Educators, the toolkit includes curriculum and materials; grants and funding; career connections; and professional development resources to interest and engage students in advanced mobility and STEM education through hands-on learning experiences. The curriculum contains lesson plans aligned by grade band and core competency, video demonstrations, and a variety of career opportunities, webinars, and connections. Example topics include electric vehicles, drones, self-driving vehicles, and more.

At DriveOhio, we understand classrooms may not have some items listed in our curriculum overviews. So, we’ve made it easier for educators to find, apply and receive funding for technology, software and other materials that will make our programs even more successful for Ohio’s students. DriveOhio has grant funding available for certain classrooms meeting the funding eligiility and also provides access to a running list of other available grants through a free website.

DriveOhio has developed a fee-free online course for educators and program leaders interested in learning more about the DriveOhio Ambassador program. The course assists in launching an ambassador program in any Ohio School District or afterschool program, including ways to recruit student ambassadors, deploy DriveOhio curriculum, investigate emerging career pathways, and create student networking opportunities. The e-learning course is available online and provides 2 CEU hours.

Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students build a spreadsheet to explore the trade-offs between "bargain-priced" gas vs. the extra mileage needed to get it. A modeling problem.

This activity is a bioassay lab where students tested the effect of an environmental toxin (fertilizer) on the growth rate of Duckweed.

Finding primary sources can be difficult and confusing at times. This site provides a list of history databases, rare books and manuscripts, and research guides for those looking for primary resources such as diaries, letters, interviews, and memoirs.

Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module/Geology of National Parks course. Students estimate the volume of sand in Hoosier Slide, a large dome-shaped dune quarried away in the 1920s from what is now Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. They also estimate the number of boxcars to carry the sand, and the number of Ball jars produced from it.

This article presents thirteen web sites that provide resources for ELL students and their teachers. Reprinted from TeacherMagazine.org with author permission.

E-Student Loan allows you to compare up to 12 loan programs at one time, based on the information that you provide. There is no charge, but registration is required.

In this jigsaw, students will graph various Bald Eagle population numbers and determine the impact humans have had on the eagle. Specifically, they will investigate why the Bald Eagle was listed as endangered, the affects of DDT on eagles, and the affects of lead. Based on an original activity titled "Bald Eagle Population Graphing" from The Raptor Center, University of Minnesota http://www.cvm.umn.edu/raptor/prod/groups/cvm/@pub/@cvm/documents/asset/cvm_66866.pdf

This is a classroom activity in which students develop understanding of the rock cycle using wax crayons to model the processes that form the 3 types of rock; sedimentary, igneous & metamorphic.

This activity poses the question: What would happen if a meteor or comet impacted Earth? Students simulate an impact in a container of sand using various-sized rocks, all while measuring, recording and graphing results and conclusions. Then students brainstorm ways to prevent an object from hitting the Earth.

This video segment adapted from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center discusses how a drought can have negative effects locally, for example by increasing the number of forest fires, and also globally, for example by impacting air quality thousands of miles away.

This video segment adapted from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center describes El NiŰ__ŒóíŠo, how it forms, and the chain reaction of consequences it triggers around the globe.

This video segment adapted from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center explains how hurricanes develop and why there are fewer hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean in strong El NiŰ__ŒóíŠo years.

This video segment adapted from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center shows how integral satellites are to everyday life and describes the different types, including orbital and geostationary.

This is an indoor and outdoor activity where students understand the distance the earth is from the sun. The students understand that the earth rotates on it's axis once in a 24 hour period thus providing us with day and night.