2023-2024 Course Standards

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Essential standards (highlighted in green below) are big, powerful ideas that are necessary and essential for students to know to be successful in a course. Essential standards identify the appropriate verb and cognitive process intended for the student to accomplish. Essential standards provide value throughout a student's career, in other courses, and translate to the next level of education or world of work.

Objectives/Indicators (rows not highlighted in green below) provide another level of detail for each Essential Standard.

Adapted or Adopted Course includes essential standards and, in many cases, specific objectives/indicators aligned with business and industry standards and/or criteria for credentials or certifications. The course standards are designed using the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy (RBT). If the POL is a CTE State Assessment, the course is written at the level of the ESSENTIAL STANDARD and assesses the intended outcome of the sum of its objectives/indicators.

The six NC Essential Employability Skills are Communication, Ethics, Problem Solving, Professionalism, Resource Management, and Teamwork. These skills are covered among the course essential standards and objectives/indicators as listed beside each. NC CTE curriculum provides and supports career awareness, career exploration, career development, technical skill development, and career readiness where six Essential Employability Skills are included in CTE Curriculum Standards. CTE builds a career and college ready workforce through the K-12 pipeline and provides a consistent and 'common language' for identification of the six Essential Employability Skills.

Career and Technical Education conducts all activities and procedures without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, gender, or disability. The responsibility to adhere to safety standards and best professional practices is the duty of the practitioners, teachers, students, and/or others who apply the contents of this document.

This blueprint has been reviewed by business and industry representatives for technical content and appropriateness for the industry.

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  • Standard/Obj #: The essential standard is denoted by the digits before the dot; objectives/indicators are indicated by the final 2 digits.
  • Standard: Essential standard and specific objective/indicator statements per essential standard. Each essential standard statement or specific objective/indicator begins with an action verb and makes a complete sentence when combined with The learner will be able to... Outcome behavior in each essential standard or objective/indicator statement is denoted by the verb plus its object.
  • Course Weight: Shows the relative importance of each essential standard or objective/indicator. Course weight is used to help determine the percentage of total class time that is spent on each objective/indicator.
  • RBT Designation: Classification of outcome behavior in essential standards and indicator statements in Dimensions according to the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy:
    Cognitive Process Dimension: 1 Remember, 2 Understand, 3 Apply, 4 Analyze, 5 Evaluate, 6 Create.
    Knowledge Dimension: A Factual Knowledge, B Conceptual Knowledge, C Procedural Knowledge.

AS31 Agricultural Mechanics I

Course Type: Updated




Standard/Obj #Standard/ObjectiveCourse WeightRBT DesignationEssential Employability Skills
1.00Apply leadership in agricultural education.14%C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply-
1.01Remember organizations related to the agricultural mechanics industry.4%C2 Procedural Knowledge - Understand-
1.02Apply parliamentary procedure and public speaking skills.6%C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply-
1.03Understand skills needed for employment and careers in the agricultural mechanics industry.4%C2 Procedural Knowledge - Understand-
2.00Understand the use of records in the agricultural mechanics industry.8%C2 Procedural Knowledge - Understand-
2.01Understand the Supervised Agricultural Experience component of the agricultural mechanics program.4%C2 Procedural Knowledge - Understand-
2.02Understand methods of financial record keeping in an agricultural mechanics business.4%C2 Procedural Knowledge - Understand-
3.00Apply shop safety principles to work in an agricultural mechanics shop.10%C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply-
3.01Understand OSHA safety rules, color coding, and personal and fire safety equipment and techniques in an agricultural mechanics shop.6%C2 Procedural Knowledge - Understand-
3.02Apply safe work practices when setting up, adjusting, using hand and power tools. 4%C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply-
4.00Apply construction principles in agricultural mechanics.48%C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply-
4.01Understand the use of a builder's level, tripod, laser level and the 3-4-5 method to layout a building.3%C2 Procedural Knowledge - Understand-
4.02Apply drawings and symbols to develop a project plan and complete a bill of materials.5%C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply-
4.03Understand the use of fasteners, hardware, and finishing materials in carpentry projects. 4%C2 Procedural Knowledge - Understand-
4.04Understand framing terms to calculate and install floor, wall, and roofing materials. 5%C2 Procedural Knowledge - Understand-
4.05Apply basics of layout and framing to construct and finish a shop project.12%C2 Procedural Knowledge - Understand-
4.06Apply electrical principles to calculate the cost of electricity needed in the agricultural mechanics setting.4%C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply-
4.07Apply principles of electrical wiring to install branch circuits in a safe manner.7%C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply-
4.08Apply principles of painting and preserving to finish wood and metal projects.4%C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply-
4.09Understand principles and materials for constructing fences using various materials.4%C2 Procedural Knowledge - Understand-
5.00Apply principles of welding in the agricultural mechanics shop.20%C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply-
5.01Understand principles for using arc welding equipment and materials for SMAW, GMAW and GTAW. 8%C2 Procedural Knowledge - Understand-
5.02Apply welding skills to construct agricultural mechanics projects.12%C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply-