Technology: SmartKids Robotics Programme Smartkids is a dynamic learning center providing activities in Lego, technology, electronics, robotics, science, industrial arts, and digital multimedia. At smartkids, traditional front of class teaching "at" students is replaced with mentors providing students with meaningful, hands-on experiences. http://www.smartkids.com.tr/english/about_smk.htm
Science/Technology: The Rahmi M Koç Museum is the first major museum in Turkey dedicated to the history of Transport, Industry and Communications. Housed in magnificent buildings - themselves prime examples of industrial archaeology - on the shore of the historic Golden Horn, the collection contains thousands of items from gramophone needles to full size ships and aircraft. With the aid of museum’s Education Pack teachers and students can not only learn in much more detail about selected objects and displays, but can also be taught to consider the objects in wider contexts - for example history, sociology, and the environment. http://www.rmk-museum.org.tr/english/education/tumu.pdf
Geometry: Symmetry, tesellations, geometrical designs of Ottoman and Byzantine art; including tiles and calligraphy will be studied before the trip and a follow up will continue.
“The Blue Mosque and the Hagia Sophia are two famous sites in Istanbul, Turkey, which use many tessellating patterns in their design. Sometimes the designs painted on the tiles form their own geometric shapes that when viewed from a distance appear as a tessellating pattern.”
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/discussions/TessellationsWorld/
Statistics: Demographical analysis of Istanbul will be researched, population growth over the years, area calculations and numerical comparisons of two parts of the city will be studied.
Design Technolgy and Geometry: Bridges of Istanbul will be discussed in terms of their design and their weight capacity. Students will design the third bridge on Bosphorus by using a software. http://www.jhu.edu/~virtlab/bridge/bridge.htm
Skyscrapers of Istanbul