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.

AS32 Agricultural Mechanics II

Course Type: Updated

Standard/Obj #	Standard/Objective	Course Weight	RBT Designation	Essential Employability Skills
1.00	Understand leadership qualities involved in successful employment.	10%	-	-
1.01	Understand leadership qualities and career building techniques desired by the agricultural mechanics industry.	5%	-	-
1.02	Understand parliamentary procedure.	5%	-	-
2.00	Understand the Supervised Agricultural Experience component of the agricultural mechanics program.	10%	-	-
2.01	Understand SAE components and application to work-based learning.	5%	-	-
2.02	Understand a financial statement.	5%	-	-
3.00	Apply shop safety skills in the agriculture shop.	8%	-	-
3.01	Understand OSHA safety rules, color coding, and equipment safety in an agricultural mechanics shop.	4%	-	-
3.02	Apply safety skills when practicing cold and hot metal skills.	4%	-	-
4.00	Apply metal fabrication skills in the agricultural shop.	38%	-	-
4.01	Apply proper procedures for using bolts, nuts, washers, screws, rivets.	4%	-	-
4.02	Apply the proper use of metal fabrication equipment such as plasma cutters, chop saws, grinders, band saws, and CNC (Computer Numerical Control).	6%	-	-
4.03	Apply proper procedures for using oxy-fuel equipment and materials for annealing, bending, brazing, soldering, tempering, hardening, cutting, and welding various materials.	6%	-	-
4.04	Apply proper procedures for using arc welding equipment and materials for SMAW, GMAW and GTAW.	8%	-	-
4.05	Apply metal fabrication skills to design plans, read symbols, and construct a project.	14%	-	-
5.00	Apply the use of agricultural power in agricultural mechanics.	12%	-	-
5.01	Understand principles of operation and troubleshooting techniques for air-cooled and water-cooled engines.	4%	-	-
5.02	Apply preventative maintenance procedures to service small engine powered tools, equipment, tractors and attachments.	4%	-	-
5.03	Apply principles and procedures for the safe use of tractors and power equipment.	4%	-	-
6.00	Apply plumbing principles used in agricultural mechanics.	10%	-	-
6.01	Understand plumbing principles and materials.	5%	-	-
6.02	Apply proper safety and industry approved techniques to install plumbing materials.	5%	-	-
7.00	Apply concrete and masonry principles to complete agricultural mechanics projects.	12%	-	-
7.01	Understand concrete and masonry principles to construct masonry projects in agricultural mechanics.	4%	-	-
7.02	Apply concrete and masonry principles to calculate materials needed and cost for a masonry project.	4%	-	-
7.03	Apply principles to construct a concrete/masonry project.	4%	-	-