LJ Create's CTE program offers a diverse range of industry-focussed disciplines that will help your students prepare for college and career. With resources that relate to the Energy Sector, Manufacturing, and Electronics our program helps students connect their learning to real-world applications.
“One of the benefits of the program for the students is that it encourages them to do more critical thinking and problem-solving; they really have to think about their answers.”
- Mr. Leavernard Jones, Technology Teacher
Full range of learning content, including lesson plans, presentations, and assessments available online – login anytime anywhere!
Help your students grow a passion for STEM with over 500 student-led, hands-on activities. These activities lead students into developing a creative solution to an open-ended project.
If you can imagine it, you can build it with an innovative engineering construction kit that is Sophisticated, Motivating, Adaptable, Robust, Terrific!
With over 450 parts including motors, sensors and a programmable control unit to work with, the design possibilities are limitless.
The models you build with the Engineering Construction Kit can be programmed using easy-to-use flowchart software – turn your students into programming wizards!
Our team of curriculum creators is continually adding new content to the program. Look out for these new features each time you log on. Your feedback is important to us and drives us continually to improve the content you receive, and the way in which you receive it.
We apply a magnifying glass to EVERY student expectation to ensure our lessons apply to the standards that YOU teach.
Our content creators have all been involved in the teaching profession at some stage in their careers and they know exactly what teachers need – instructional content that is easy to implement in the classroom.
At the heart of our learning content is a fully integrated support system. Every lesson includes easy access to academic and technical subject support. Teachers - If something goes wrong or you can’t find the answer online, we are only a phone call away.
Our active learning program is composed of creative hands-on tasks and interactive virtual software that work together flawlessly to create exciting lessons and environments where students can actively engage in their own learning.
Our engaging simulators give students a taste of what it means to think like a scientist or engineer. They allow students to explore, experiment, and test their own ideas in a range of different scenarios that they would not normally get to experience in the classroom.
“This was the most exciting STEM lesson I have ever taken. The magnetic levitation challenge was really cool. I had lots of fun trying to make my train the fastest.”
- Robert, middle school student
Identify the engineering design process and apply it in problem solving. Design and build an automated railroad crossing.
Explore structural design and construction materials. Design, build, and test bridges.
Investigate the principles and application of electronic systems. Design, build, and test a control system.
Investigate and develop a mass transit system model. Design and test crash-protection systems.
Explore material properties and manufacturing processes. Design and develop a plastic component for mass production.
Explore the core principles of mechatronics. Design, build, and program a fairground ride.
Explore techniques for algorithm development. Develop programs to control an elevator.
Program a range of articulated robot forms. Design a new humanoid robot.
Explore the core principles and applications of technology in transportation. Design, build, and program an automated vehicle.
Explore rapid prototyping and tooling techniques. Design and develop a new component suitable for mass production.
Explore applications of science and technology in medicine. Design, build, and program a medical scanner.
Investigate concepts and applications of industrial robotics. Design and develop an industrial robotic system.
Explore the impact of technology in modern agriculture. Design, build, and program automated agricultural machines.
Investigate mobile robotic concepts and applications. Design and build an AGV robot.
Explore how energy is used in buildings. Design, build, and test environmental systems.
Develop core computer science and programming principles. Design, build, and program robotic systems.
Explore fossil fuels, wind, solar, geothermal, hydro, and nuclear power. Use a simulator to model strategies for sustainable power.
Our comprehensive Design and Technology lesson library contains over 400 STEM lessons, which are available any time, anywhere online.
The way in which we deliver our content is INCREDIBLY flexible:
These courses are custom-made to meet specific requirements, such as ITEEA, NGSS and CCSS. They provide a comprehensive set of lessons for a complete program of study and are supplemented with a range of support materials for English and Math.
This huge collection of Middle and High School resources is called our Exploring STEM Library...with this library you can have access to EVERY SINGLE piece of learning content for Middle and High School that we have ever published! This resource is ideal for teachers to search and make their own courses.
Each one of our pre-prepared hardware kits comes with a set of lesson content as standard to help you get the most out of our hands-on lessons.
Our Engineering Construction Kit, for example, includes access (via DVD and online) to comprehensive practical tasks that use the kit to teach the principles of mechatronics, mobile robotics, engineering design, and much more!
Comprehensive, informative, insightful. Our presentations provide students with the knowledge they need to grasp the key STEM concepts in our Exploring STEM program. Our presentations are completely narrated with subtitles for the hard of hearing.
Hands-on activities linked to theoretical resources that allow students to develop active learning skills.
Exciting, inquiring, tactile. A range of skills development activities, including virtual workshop and laboratory tasks, on-screen equipment explorers and problem-solving tasks. Again, these lessons are fully narrated.
At the heart of the Exploring STEM program are our exciting inquiry-based digital investigations and simulators. These lessons are our favorites; they’ve been designed by our experts to provide an introduction to the real-world application of STEM without having to leave the classroom.
Thought-provoking, challenging, versatile. Assess student understanding of every topic in a supportive way that clearly identifies the correct answer to each question once it has been attempted.
Our lessons are mapped to YOUR standards. They contain integrated Math and English Support Materials. Effortlessly search through our lessons and support materials… by keyword, by standard or by topic.
Our Learning Management System automatically tracks and records the progress and attainment of your students, and the school’s progress overall. You can see how much time students spend on each module, how often they log in, and instantly see records of their grades across the program.
The LMS gives the teacher control over the construction of courses, allowing them to be tailored for their students, and includes extensive student-tracking and reporting, adding up to a world-leading solution to your learning-providing needs.
Each course in the Design and Technology program contains open-ended design project briefs. You can choose from a variety of different equipment packs that will aid your students in their preparation to complete these project briefs.
We understand that the cost of consumables can make project-based learning an expensive option. We have deliberately selected project activities that do not require a large investment in consumable items. Many of the Design and Technology projects require no consumables at all.
These unique hardware kits can be used for a variety of extensive student activities that includes research, discussion, modelling, simulation, practical design and testing.
“I love this class! It's so much fun using the presentations and making things work!”
- Sierra, middle school student
