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2 | C = 80% of Level I | |||||||||||||
3 | B = All of Level I, 80% of Level II | |||||||||||||
4 | A = All of Levels I and II, 50 % of III | |||||||||||||
5 | A+ = All of Levels I to III, some IV's | |||||||||||||
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8 | Technical Communication Skils | |||||||||||||
9 | Sub-Subject | Standard | Level | Example Objective / Assesment | ||||||||||
10 | Client Management / Community Participation | Student arrives where they are commited to be be when they are commited to be there | I | Student arrives in class and is seated by the start time of that class. | ||||||||||
11 | Client Management / Community Participation | Student turns in the work requested of them. | I | Student fills out and turns in worksheets, posts lab assignments, attempts in class excercies and shows them to the professor. | ||||||||||
12 | Client Management / Community Participation | Student engages in timely communication. | I | Work is turned in by the due date, if student knows that will not be possible that is communicated to the teacher when it is assigned or at the very least before the assignment is due | ||||||||||
13 | Social Media / Community Participation | Student can publish their projects on social media in a way that makes it easy for others with similar interests to find their work | I | Student uses the class tumblr, uses appropriate tags | ||||||||||
14 | Vocabulary | Students use Level I vocabularly correctly in oral and written communication | I | In the lab work and in the class room students use the correct terminology to answer questions. i.e. "I meausered this resistor across it's leads to get compare its actual value in Ohms to the value represented by the color code. I used Ohm's Law caluculate what the current would have been when my battery was operating at its full voltage." | ||||||||||
15 | Content Organization & Analysis | Students can communicate problems that they had completing assignment in a manner that allows their peers to help them troubleshoot future problems. | II | If the student struggled with any part of the lab, they indicated the causes by • Stating what the symptoms were • Stating what they think those symptoms represent • Stating any steps they took to test their assumptions • The results of those test • What they would try next | ||||||||||
16 | Vocabulary | Students use Level II vocabulary correctly in written answers | II | In the lab work and in the class room students use the correct terminology to answer questions. | ||||||||||
17 | Content Organization & Analysis | Students can describe their project in a way that allows others can reproduce their work. | III | Students post lab assignments to the tumblr in a format that would allow those not in the class to reproduce what they did. | ||||||||||
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23 | Test Equipment Skills | |||||||||||||
24 | Standard | Level | Example Objective / Assesment | |||||||||||
25 | Digital Multimeter | check for continuity | I | |||||||||||
26 | Digital Multimeters | Voltage reading of known quantities | I | Place leads across battery, is the battery still good? | ||||||||||
27 | Digital Multimeters | Voltage reading of unknown quantities | I | Test the voltage drop across a resistor in a given circuit | ||||||||||
28 | Digital Multimeters | Amperage reading of known quantities | I | The data sheet say your LED should have current in a given range. Is that what you are getting in this circuit? | ||||||||||
29 | Digital Multimeters | Amperage reading of unknown quantities | I | How much current does your dollar store device need to run? | ||||||||||
30 | Digital Multimeters | Resistance reading of known quantities | I | Test a resistor with a Multimeter, compare your reading to the color code / Watch change of Potentiometer | ||||||||||
31 | Digital Multimeters | Resistance reading of unknown quantities | I | Determine the internal resistance of a motor coil | ||||||||||
32 | Oscilliscope | Student can use Oscilliscope as a Voltmeter | III, IV | Watch PWM or sensor inputs going into a microcontroller circuit | ||||||||||
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34 | Assembly Skills | |||||||||||||
35 | Sub-subject | Standard | Level | Example Objective / Assesment | ||||||||||
36 | Safety | Student demonstrate proper safety considerations in the lab, including an awareness of lethal current values. | I | The soldering iron is not a light saber. The benchtop supply isn't to be used to reenact scenes from medical dramas. Does not interrupt other students while they are using an iron. | ||||||||||
37 | Soldering | Students is able to make a reliable solder joint without excess solder or a cold joint | I | Student creates a stable solder joint between a component and copper tape | ||||||||||
38 | Soldering | Students is able to splice two wires using proper technique, i.e. have the wires resist reasonable force pulling on both ends before the solder is applied | II | Student cuts two stranded lead wires from roll in class room and creates a longer wire that can then carry current from the power supply to his or her copper tape circuit. | ||||||||||
39 | Soldering | Student has learned, can demonstrate the techniques required to solder lead wires onto various component with lug-style terminations. | II | Student solders lead wires to a potentiometer or switch provided by the instructor. Student demonstartes to the instructor that the lead wires are electrically sound with a multimeter. | ||||||||||
40 | Breadboard, Schematic | Student demonstrates an understanding of the layout of a breadboard and how to use it to prototype basic circuits | II or III | Student can reproduce a 4 component series circuit on a Breadboard | ||||||||||
41 | Soldering | Student can splice thin wires in heat-sensitive scenarios. | III or IV | Student solders a resistor onto the lead of an LED | ||||||||||
42 | Soldering | Student can solder a circuit onto perf board when given a previously soldered circuit to copy | IV | Insert example project | ||||||||||
43 | Soldering, Schematic | Student can solder a circuit onto perf board when given a circuit's schematic | IV | Student can reproduce a 4 component series circuit on a perferated protoboard. | ||||||||||
44 | Soldering | Student can solder through-hole parts into a PCB | IV | Insert example project | ||||||||||
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47 | Component and Skematic Skills | |||||||||||||
48 | Sub-Subject | Standard | Level | Example Objective / Assesment | ||||||||||
49 | Component | Battery I – Student can predict the ability of a battery to drive a circuit based on its rating for common batteries. | I | Student records what batteries their device uses and indicates how much voltage they can provide at full power in the configuration they were in the device. | ||||||||||
50 | Component | LED I - Student understands that is a polar part and how tell what direction it should be placed in a circuit | I | Student consistently puts an LED into a circuit with the correct orientation the first time. | ||||||||||
51 | Schematic | Students can recognize Level I component schematics symbols and reproduce the circuit with real parts on either a copper tape practice board, nail board or alligator clips | I | Student is given a piece of paper with a schematic on it that they must produce | ||||||||||
52 | Schematic | Students can draw in a circuit Level I component schematics symbols when given a circuit of real parts from a copper tape practice board, nail board | I | Students given a circuit can produce a schematic of that circuit on Upverter or on paper | ||||||||||
53 | Component | Capacitor I - Understands safety issues | I | Student can identify what capacitors can kill them and knows to never touch the leads. | ||||||||||
54 | Component | Capacitor I - Student relates schematic symbol of the capacitor to actual construction techniques used to make capacitors | I | Student builds their own capacitor or takes apart an existing capacitor and can identify the plates and the dielectric. | ||||||||||
55 | Schematic | Students can recognize Level II component schematics symbols | II | Student when given a schematic on a piece of paper can label the parts | ||||||||||
56 | Schematic | Students can draw in a circuit Level II component schematics symbols | II | Students when given a circuit that contains Level II components on either a copper tape practice board, nail board, alligator clips student can then draw that circuit. | ||||||||||
57 | Schematic | Students can recognize Level II component schematics symbols and is capable of reproducing the circuit with real parts on a copper tape practice board, nail board, alligator clips or breadboard | II | Student is given a piece of paper with a schematic on it that they must produce. | ||||||||||
58 | Schematic | Students can draw a circuit with Level II components based on a real circuits with an advanced part layout | II | Students when given a circuit that contains Level II components on either breadboard or clips student can then draw that circuit. | ||||||||||
59 | Component | Capacitor I - Polarity of Electrolytic Capacitors | II | Can identify polarity of electrolytic capacitors | ||||||||||
60 | Component | Capacitor I - Can identify common useages, why it would be in a DC circuit | II | Student when shown a circuit with a capacitor can deduce the component is there to store energy for the circuit to use later or provide a safety valve for power spikes and/or that the circuit may infact have an AC element to it. | ||||||||||
61 | Schematic | Students can recognize Level I component schematics symbols and reproduce the circuit on a breadboard | III | Student is given a piece of paper with a schematic on it that they must produce | ||||||||||
62 | Schematic | Students can draw in a circuit Level I component schematics symbols based on a circuit given to them on a breadboard | III | Students given a circuit can produce a schematic of that circuit on Upverter or on paper | ||||||||||
63 | Component | Capacitor II - Can identify common useages, why it would be in an AC circuit | III | Student when shown an AC circuit with a capacitor can deduce it is perhaps working as a filter | ||||||||||
64 | Component | Capacitor II - Saftey II Proper dissipation | IV | Student can build a circuit to safely dissipate a capacitor | ||||||||||
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68 | Math Skills | |||||||||||||
69 | Sub-Subject | Standard | Level | Example Objective / Assesment | ||||||||||
70 | Ask Ms. Starbird for help with math standards | |||||||||||||
71 | Ratios | III | Determining Vout in a Voltage Divder Circuit | |||||||||||
72 | Fractional Math | |||||||||||||
73 | Algebra I | Students can solve for X in an equation that uses multiplication and division | II | Missing value in Ohms law | ||||||||||
74 | Summations | Kirkoff's Law, Voltage | ||||||||||||
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76 | Concept Skills | |||||||||||||
77 | Sub-Subject | Standard | Level | Example Objective / Assesment | ||||||||||
78 | This is section still very raw | |||||||||||||
79 | Electricity | Students understands that Electricity is the movement of electrons and knows what an electron is | I | Student can draw an Atom and label the parts, but most especially the electron. | ||||||||||
80 | Electricity | Students understand that atoms and materials have differing amounts of stability in how their electrons are arranged and that the less stable the electrons the more likely that atom or material is to be conductive. | I | Student use multimeter's continuity and Ohmeter settings to identify good conductors and bad conductors. Can begin to predict what their results will be. | ||||||||||
81 | Electricity | Students understands Valence Shells | IV | When shown a Periodic Table of Elements that only has atomic numbers, students can predict where the good conductors will be | ||||||||||
82 | Electrical Potential | Students relate to the idea of electrical pressure in a circuit and can tie them both to the appropriate unit. | I | Student when asked what voltage represents in the circuit say electrical pressure. | ||||||||||
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84 | Electrical Potential | III | ||||||||||||
85 | Electrical Potential | IV | ||||||||||||
86 | Current | Current = Qty of Electrons = Amps | I | |||||||||||
87 | Current | Conventional Current v. Flow of Electrons | II | |||||||||||
88 | Current | Amps drive the Load | III | |||||||||||
89 | Current | IV | ||||||||||||
90 | Capacitance | Student know that the definition of Capacitance is "the property of being able to collect a charge of electricity" and correlate the word to the component "Capacitor" | II | When shown a circuit with a capacitor can discuss why something that can hold charge over time might be important in that type of circuit. | ||||||||||
91 | Capacitance | Students can distinguish a Capacitor from a Battery | III or IV | Students can explain under what circumstance one might be able to use a capacitor instead of a battery, and when one couldn't. | ||||||||||
92 | Ohms Law | Student is aware of Ohms Law, knows what it is used for | I | Student can give Ohms law as both V=IR and Volts/Amps = Ohms | ||||||||||
93 | Ohms Law | Student can use Ohms law to derive a single missing values in a basic 4 component of less circuit | II | Student is given the voltage of a battery and the current draw and voltage requirements of an LED. Student determines what resistor will complete the circuit. | ||||||||||
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95 | Ohms Law | IV | ||||||||||||
96 | Kirkoff's Laws | Student understands the first law of thermodynamics, but not necessarily by that name | I | Teacher claps and discusses with students how the movement (kinetic energy) gets translated to noise since the energy built up by the movement has to go somewhere. | ||||||||||
97 | Kirkoff's Laws | Kirkoff's Law of Voltage - The directed sum of the electrical potential differences (voltage) around any closed network is zero | II | Student given a series circuit with a power source can demonstrate that the voltage drops are equal to the voltage source | ||||||||||
98 | Kirkoff's Laws | Kirkoff's Law of Current - At any node (junction) in an electrical circuit, the sum of currents flowing into that node is equal to the sum of currents flowing out of that node | IV | Multiple power sources? Paralell Circuits When they come back together? | ||||||||||
99 | Orders of magnitude | Orders of Magnitude and component tolerance | I | The 3rd color is the most important on the resistor color code, explain why. | ||||||||||
100 | Orders of magnitude | Units go up by powers of 10 and each power of 10 has its own prefix | II | Given these prefixes student can put them in order centi, milli, pico, micro, kilo |