Career and Technology Studies Grades 10-12

A playlist of videos from a college professor that explain what you should know about careers in logistics and how you can advance your career.

Indago ResearchCast, a logistics research company, discusses the skills needed for success in a career in logistics.

In this guide where you’ll find information from more than 80 trusted resources on everything kids want and need to know about the exciting field of logistics.

This article explains how companies can manage risk in their supply chains.

In this lesson plan for teachers, students explore supply chains and what happens when they are interrupted.

Supply chains increasingly feature the bidirectional movement of digital information in addition to the movement of products, services, and currency. Cyber threats propagate through digital information transfer. Learn more in the federal government report.

A federal government report from 2020 that assessed the vulnerability of Canadian companies to supply chain disruption.

Almost every year, the western world is introduced to a new superfood that boasts extraordinary nutritional benefits. The documentary examines its unintended effects this has on food security, health, sustainable farming, and fair-trade food practices.

The six-day stranding of the Ever Given in the Suez Canal last March did something incredibly rare: it made regular people care about shipping. This is the story of how a $1 billion worth of cargo got stuck, freed and impounded as the courts took over.

A report from CBS News report about how climate change is affecting the Panama Canal and how this is affecting global trade.

A report from the New Zealand Government about the importance of the Suez Canal to global trade. It discusses how the ship "Ever Given" which was stuck for 6 days in the canal affected $6-10 billion in trade PER DAY!

Where do you go during a zombie apocalypse? Learn some key geography skills about how people, resources, and ideas travel.

There's a fine line between holding sufficient inventory to meet customer demand, and being saddled with excess stock. Improve your knowledge of efficient inventory practices and start seeing better results.

This New York Times article explains just how complicated it was to plan the Beijing Olympics during the pandemic.

Ever wondered just how logistically insane the Olympics are? Me too. A 17-day event that requires a decade to prepare for must be complicated. Find out just how complicated!

Dig into the construction of the Suez Canal, and discover how it became one of the world’s busiest maritime passages.

In this step-by-step tutorial, learn how to make a Gannt Chart in Excel. We start by creating a data table with start dates and estimated time needed. Next, we insert a stacked bar chart and make some tweaks to the chart to make it appear as a Gannt Chart.

In this video, you will learn to use the project management timeline template for Google Sheets, and to get your own copy of the template. With this template you will be able to see the timeline for tasks highlighted in color... on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis.

A detailed about Gantt Charts which are a project management tool that tracks timing of various aspects of the project

Standards for freight containers from the International Organization for Standardization. These standards ensure interoperability of shipping systems.

Standards for logistics processes and packaging from the International Organization for Standardization

Tips to improve your purchasing and supply chain management. Already working with suppliers to ensure you're delivering the highest quality products on time to your customers? Here are some additional ways to reduce costs and boost efficiency

A video from a teacher that explains the complexity of the global food supply chain.

Tracking and tracing are the foundations all great food and beverage manufacturers rely on to create and strengthen trust with their distribution networks and consumers. But today’s consumer has set the bar increasingly high for companies as they think about the broader repercussions of their lifestyles. Learn how the logistics industry is responding to traceability demands

A great playlist of videos from a college professor that explain many aspects of the supply chain.

A lesson plan for teachers. Using provided information and their own research, students will work in small groups to examine instances of rapid changes in the supply and/or demand for specific products.

In this playlist of videos from a college professor, you'll find useful videos to help you understand the terms used to describe different part of the supply chain. There are also videos about procurement and reverse logistics.

Annually, we sell and buy 2 billion t-shirts globally, making it one of the most common garments in the world. But how and where is the average t-shirt made, and what’s its environmental impact? Angel Chang traces the life cycle of a t-shirt.

A useful explanation about how the food supply chain works to get food from the food producer to the consumer

A lesson plan from Harvard about supply chains

Students can create free accounts for this online tool that calculates required shipping space AND applies shipping rules for different loads. Stacking, the sequence of loading goods, capacity restrictions, axle loads or the way different types of semi-trailers or containers are used should constitute basic knowledge for anyone who starts working in transport. A paid-pro version is available too.

A manual that walks you through how to use the Goodloading software to calculate available space in shipping.

An open-source inventory system that has lots of documentation and video tutorials to get you students up and running with this software.

Sometimes a single unlikely idea can have massive impact across the world. Learn how frustration drove Malcom McLean, a small-town truck driver, to invent the shipping container. Containerization was born, and it transformed the modern global economy.

In this step-by-step tutorial, learn how you can exponentially improve your Excel skills using OpenAI's ChatGPT artificial intelligence. Write nested functions with ease, calculate the number of unique text values in a list, write a basic invoicing macro, and more, all with just a few clicks and a few basic refinements.

This video explains the basics of google sheets so that you can get started with creating tables and formulas right away. I also show you how make charts and graphs, and how to total your numbers.

A great introduction video for how to use Google Docs to make and share documents.

In this step-by-step tutorial, learn how to pull together charts in Excel. Charts are a great way to visualize and analyze your data, and Excel offers a variety of different chart types. You have line charts, pie charts, bar charts, pivot charts, and many more.

Learn the basics of using Microsoft Excel in just 15 minutes in this video

This video shows you two methods of creating a CAD style drawing inside of Excel.

Making a floorplan in Microsoft Excel is a lot easier than you probably think it's going to be. Find out how to make a floorplan in Excel with help from a mechanical engineer with 32 years of experience in this free video clip.

In this step-by-step tutorial, learn how to make a Gannt Chart in Excel. We start by creating a data table with start dates and estimated time needed. Next, we insert a stacked bar chart and make some tweaks to the chart to make it appear as a Gannt Chart.

This video will help you move from just starting to use Google Docs to becoming an advanced user! This is a looooong video, it's best to watch it in chunks.

This guide will show you how to use Google sheets. We will show you how to use various features such as creating spreadsheets, using formulas, and inserting charts.

Lucidchart is an open access diagramming application that makes it easy to diagram complex relationships like those that exist in networks.

An open-source inventory system that has lots of documentation and video tutorials to get you students up and running with this software.

A detailed about Gantt Charts which are a project management tool that tracks timing of various aspects of the project