About My Site

                                       Welcome
I'm Burt Savage, a retired elementary school teacher dedicated to reviving hands-on design skills in kids. My website, developed over two decades, offers a unique curriculum focusing on integrating math, science, and technology (MST) through artisan skills like technical drawing and safe tool use."
                                    Retirement
When I retired, a little over a decade ago, I decided I wanted to continue with activities I enjoy; designing and making a website. Teaching technology to kids is my area of expertise. I was an elementary school technology teacher for seventeen years before I became a classroom teacher.
                                    My Focus
Although I had started my site five years before I retired, I now wanted my site's skills to focus on math, science, and technology in the elementary classroom.
                                        Skills
In the classroom, generally in the afternoon, I taught kids artisan skills. An artisan is a skilled craft person. An example is a skilled tradesman, like a carpenter. Someone who makes high quality items individually, like a sculptor, is also an artisan. My own definition of an artisan is a person who combines design, math, and technology skills to create something interesting.
                                      Safety
I also promoted the safe and proper use of tools. Safety is very important when working with tools. Kids, from an early age, need to be taught how to work carefully and safely.
                                      Design
I taught kids how to design and they found it interesting. Class time passed pleasantly and productively. As we thought about, discussed, designed and constructed something, I integrated my students' math, science and design skills into my lessons.
                                The Student
The “Kids Corner” section gives important information for the future of education as it relates to both younger and older elementary kids. It emphasizes the fundamentals of thinking skills, using the metric system, orthographic projection, measuring, technical drawing, using construction tools, and self-organization.
                                     The Parent
You may be the parent or grandparent of a kid who has potential artisan skills. You may be an artisan yourself and think it is important to hone general artisan skills at an early age. I do, because like learning to play a musical instrument, the earlier you start the better. There is a section for you called, “The Parent’s Corner.”
                                     The Teacher
I found the technical, intellectual and creative process of using technology intriguing when I was a teacher. If you are interested as a teacher in my site, you will note that the print is very large and there is a yellow background. There are no videos because I want kids to read instructions, teachers demonstrate and the students make something. The print size and colour make it easy for students to read from a minimum 43 inch or 100cm TV.
                                  My Website
You will find me on one internet platform. I use a computer to connect my website with my site distributor. My site distributor's platform connects my site to you and is secure traffic. Safety and security, when dealing with kids, is extremely important to me.
                                   My Retirement
The complex activity of developing and maintaining a site as a septuagenarian is an enjoyable experience and keeps my mind sharp and creative. I know that once a kid finds out how much fun it is to design and use tools, they will be creative designers, tool users, builders and good citizens.
                              Our Responsibility
It is everyone's responsibility, as educated adults, to provide the best possible and progressive education for the Lisas and Barts of our world. They are our future.
                             Technical Drawing
Over the last forty years, I have refined one division of art; the teaching of orthographic and isometric projection and using this art to integrate math, science and technology (MST) using the metric system. This fusion allows elementary age students the ability to grow exponentially in understanding how the metric system ties the three subjects together.
                          Industrial Support
I believe this will motivate tool and office supply companies to support my ideas because the industry will support a curriculum that helps teachers teach ten-year old kids how to plan projects, use tools safely and are successful in their work.
          Tool and Building Supplies Stores
Kids will remember who helped them when they were students. Stores like Canadian Tire, Home Depot, Rona, Lowe's, Staples, The Source, and Best Buy. I want these stores to assign a person who will communicate with teachers and invest in kid's tool and material products kids can use.
         The World of Technology
What would it mean for a ten year old kid to know the rules behind designing, understanding, measuring, drawing and creating something in the world of technology? It's a question we need to answer.
              How You Can Help
I will continue with my work . If you are perusing my site and you notice that I have made an error, please contact me and let me know. If you find something interesting, please pass the idea on. If you want to help me out, please go to "What Can we Do?".