GRADES 6-12
- Prerequisite Course(s): None
- High School Credit = 1/2 credit per semester (Postsecondary credit = 0)
- This course will be offered: every year
- Pathway (Optional): Technology Education
- Career Cluster Area: Applied Academics
- Source of Occupational Skills Standards: American Electronics Association (AEA)
- Eligibility for Nationally Recognized Skill Certificate(s)/State License? No
- Tech Prep: No
- Is this course brokered through another institution or agency? No
- Course Description: This course is designed to present students with unifying concepts within modern mechanical, thermal, electrical, and fluid systems technologies.
- Content Headings/Topics
- Work
- Force
- Rate
- Resistance
- Energy
- Power
- Force transformers
| Performance Standards (Learner Outcomes) | Specific Occupational Skills Standards | Alaska Reading, Writing, Math, Science Performance Standards | Alaska Content Standards | Alaska Employability Standards | Alaska Cultural Standards | All Aspects of Industry | Assessments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Describe what force is. | AEA 6.1 | W3.4 ME1.4.1 | Technical | Lab Pre / Post Test | |||
| 2. Give examples of complex technological devices where force must be controlled, measured, or applied. | AEA 6.3 | W3.4 ME1.4.1 | LA D1 | B3 | Technical | Lab Pre / Post Test | |
| 3. Describe what force, pressure, voltage, and temperature difference have in common. | AEA 6.4 | W3.4 ME1.4.1 | MA1-6MB1-8 | Technical | Lab Pre / Post Test | ||
| 4. Describe or predict what happens to an object when forces on it are balanced and when forces on it are unbalanced. | AEA 3.25.3a | W3.4 ME1.4.1 | MA1-6MB1-8 | Technical | Lab Pre / Post Test | ||
| 5. List occupations that require technicians to measure, control, or otherwise deal with force in complex devices. | AEA 5.3.a | W3.3 | E5 | Reports | |||
| 6. Describe what is meant by work, force, rate, resistance, energy, power, and force transformers in general. Then describe work, force, rate, resistance, and energy, power, in mechanical, fluid, and electrical systems. | AEA 4.1 | W3.3 | Technical | Written Report | |||
| 7. Describe how work in mechanical, fluid, and electrical systems involves the presence of force and movement. | AEA 5.4 | MathB | Technical | Lab Assignment | |||
| 8. Identify correct SI and English units for work in mechanical, fluid, and electrical systems. | ANSI B1.13M | MA 1.3.5 MA 2.4.1 | Math B | Technical | Project | ||
| 9. Identify the effects of work, force, rate, resistance, energy, and power done in mechanical, fluid, and electrical systems. | AEA 3.2 | MA 1.4.1 | MathB | Technical | Lab Assignment | ||
| 10. Measure work, force, rate, resistance, energy, and power in mechanical, fluid, and electrical systems. | MA 2.4.3 | MathA | Technical | Lab Assignment | |||
| 11. | AEA 2.2 | MathE | Technical | Lab Assignment |