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C = 80% of Level I
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B = All of Level I, 80% of Level II
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A = All of Levels I and II, 50 % of III
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A+ = All of Levels I to III, some IV's
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Technical Communication Skils
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Sub-SubjectStandardLevelExample Objective / Assesment
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Client Management / Community ParticipationStudent arrives where they are commited to be be when they are commited to be thereIStudent arrives in class and is seated by the start time of that class.
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Client Management / Community ParticipationStudent turns in the work requested of them. IStudent fills out and turns in worksheets, posts lab assignments, attempts in class excercies and shows them to the professor.
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Client Management / Community ParticipationStudent engages in timely communication. IWork 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
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Social Media / Community ParticipationStudent can publish their projects on social media in a way that makes it easy for others with similar interests to find their workIStudent uses the class tumblr, uses appropriate tags
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VocabularyStudents use Level I vocabularly correctly in oral and written communicationIIn 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."
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Content Organization & AnalysisStudents can communicate problems that they had completing assignment in a manner that allows their peers to help them troubleshoot future problems.IIIf 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
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Vocabulary Students use Level II vocabulary correctly in written answersIIIn the lab work and in the class room students use the correct terminology to answer questions.
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Content Organization & AnalysisStudents can describe their project in a way that allows others can reproduce their work.IIIStudents 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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Test Equipment Skills
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StandardLevelExample Objective / Assesment
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Digital Multimetercheck for continuityI
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Digital MultimetersVoltage reading of known quantitiesIPlace leads across battery, is the battery still good?
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Digital MultimetersVoltage reading of unknown quantitiesITest the voltage drop across a resistor in a given circuit
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Digital MultimetersAmperage reading of known quantitiesIThe data sheet say your LED should have current in a given range. Is that what you are getting in this circuit?
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Digital MultimetersAmperage reading of unknown quantitiesIHow much current does your dollar store device need to run?
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Digital MultimetersResistance reading of known quantitiesITest a resistor with a Multimeter, compare your reading to the color code / Watch change of Potentiometer
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Digital MultimetersResistance reading of unknown quantitiesIDetermine the internal resistance of a motor coil
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OscilliscopeStudent can use Oscilliscope as a VoltmeterIII, IVWatch PWM or sensor inputs going into a microcontroller circuit
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Assembly Skills
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Sub-subjectStandardLevelExample Objective / Assesment
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SafetyStudent demonstrate proper safety considerations in the lab, including an awareness of lethal current values. IThe 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.
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SolderingStudents is able to make a reliable solder joint without excess solder or a cold jointIStudent creates a stable solder joint between a component and copper tape
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SolderingStudents 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 appliedIIStudent 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.
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SolderingStudent has learned, can demonstrate the techniques required to solder lead wires onto various component with lug-style terminations. IIStudent 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.
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Breadboard, SchematicStudent demonstrates an understanding of the layout of a breadboard and how to use it to prototype basic circuitsII or IIIStudent can reproduce a 4 component series circuit on a Breadboard
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SolderingStudent can splice thin wires in heat-sensitive scenarios.III or IVStudent solders a resistor onto the lead of an LED
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SolderingStudent can solder a circuit onto perf board when given a previously soldered circuit to copyIVInsert example project
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Soldering, SchematicStudent can solder a circuit onto perf board when given a circuit's schematicIVStudent can reproduce a 4 component series circuit on a perferated protoboard.
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SolderingStudent can solder through-hole parts into a PCBIVInsert example project
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Component and Skematic Skills
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Sub-SubjectStandardLevelExample Objective / Assesment
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ComponentBattery I – Student can predict the ability of a battery to drive a circuit based on its rating for common batteries.IStudent 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.
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ComponentLED I - Student understands that is a polar part and how tell what direction it should be placed in a circuitIStudent consistently puts an LED into a circuit with the correct orientation the first time.
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SchematicStudents 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 clipsIStudent is given a piece of paper with a schematic on it that they must produce
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SchematicStudents can draw in a circuit Level I component schematics symbols when given a circuit of real parts from a copper tape practice board, nail boardIStudents given a circuit can produce a schematic of that circuit on Upverter or on paper
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ComponentCapacitor I - Understands safety issuesIStudent can identify what capacitors can kill them and knows to never touch the leads.
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ComponentCapacitor I - Student relates schematic symbol of the capacitor to actual construction techniques used to make capacitorsIStudent builds their own capacitor or takes apart an existing capacitor and can identify the plates and the dielectric.
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SchematicStudents can recognize Level II component schematics symbolsIIStudent when given a schematic on a piece of paper can label the parts
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SchematicStudents can draw in a circuit Level II component schematics symbolsIIStudents 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.
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SchematicStudents 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 breadboardIIStudent is given a piece of paper with a schematic on it that they must produce.
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SchematicStudents can draw a circuit with Level II components based on a real circuits with an advanced part layout IIStudents when given a circuit that contains Level II components on either breadboard or clips student can then draw that circuit.
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ComponentCapacitor I - Polarity of Electrolytic CapacitorsIICan identify polarity of electrolytic capacitors
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ComponentCapacitor I - Can identify common useages, why it would be in a DC circuitIIStudent 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.
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SchematicStudents can recognize Level I component schematics symbols and reproduce the circuit on a breadboardIIIStudent is given a piece of paper with a schematic on it that they must produce
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SchematicStudents can draw in a circuit Level I component schematics symbols based on a circuit given to them on a breadboardIIIStudents given a circuit can produce a schematic of that circuit on Upverter or on paper
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ComponentCapacitor II - Can identify common useages, why it would be in an AC circuitIIIStudent when shown an AC circuit with a capacitor can deduce it is perhaps working as a filter
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ComponentCapacitor II - Saftey II Proper dissipationIVStudent can build a circuit to safely dissipate a capacitor
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Math Skills
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Sub-SubjectStandardLevelExample Objective / Assesment
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Ask Ms. Starbird for help with math standards
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RatiosIIIDetermining Vout in a Voltage Divder Circuit
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Fractional Math
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Algebra IStudents can solve for X in an equation that uses multiplication and divisionIIMissing value in Ohms law
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SummationsKirkoff's Law, Voltage
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Concept Skills
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Sub-SubjectStandardLevelExample Objective / Assesment
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This is section still very raw
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ElectricityStudents understands that Electricity is the movement of electrons and knows what an electron isIStudent can draw an Atom and label the parts, but most especially the electron.
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ElectricityStudents 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.IStudent use multimeter's continuity and Ohmeter settings to identify good conductors and bad conductors. Can begin to predict what their results will be.
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ElectricityStudents understands Valence ShellsIVWhen shown a Periodic Table of Elements that only has atomic numbers, students can predict where the good conductors will be
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Electrical PotentialStudents relate to the idea of electrical pressure in a circuit and can tie them both to the appropriate unit.IStudent when asked what voltage represents in the circuit say electrical pressure.
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Electrical PotentialII
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Electrical PotentialIII
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Electrical PotentialIV
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CurrentCurrent = Qty of Electrons = AmpsI
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CurrentConventional Current v. Flow of ElectronsII
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CurrentAmps drive the LoadIII
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CurrentIV
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CapacitanceStudent 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"IIWhen shown a circuit with a capacitor can discuss why something that can hold charge over time might be important in that type of circuit.
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CapacitanceStudents can distinguish a Capacitor from a BatteryIII or IVStudents can explain under what circumstance one might be able to use a capacitor instead of a battery, and when one couldn't.
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Ohms LawStudent is aware of Ohms Law, knows what it is used forIStudent can give Ohms law as both V=IR and Volts/Amps = Ohms
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Ohms LawStudent can use Ohms law to derive a single missing values in a basic 4 component of less circuitIIStudent 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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Ohms LawIII
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Ohms LawIV
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Kirkoff's LawsStudent understands the first law of thermodynamics, but not necessarily by that nameITeacher 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.
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Kirkoff's LawsKirkoff's Law of Voltage - The directed sum of the electrical potential differences (voltage) around any closed network is zeroIIStudent given a series circuit with a power source can demonstrate that the voltage drops are equal to the voltage source
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Kirkoff's LawsKirkoff'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 nodeIVMultiple power sources? Paralell Circuits When they come back together?
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Orders of magnitudeOrders of Magnitude and component toleranceIThe 3rd color is the most important on the resistor color code, explain why.
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Orders of magnitudeUnits go up by powers of 10 and each power of 10 has its own prefixIIGiven these prefixes student can put them in order centi, milli, pico, micro, kilo