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.

IM31 Electronics I

Course Type: Adapted




Standard/Obj #Standard/ObjectiveCourse WeightRBT DesignationEssential Employability Skills
1.00Basic Safety Precautions5%--
1.10Describe digital electronics safe practices and standards.---
1.20Describe electrical shock, causes, and emergency responses.---
1.30Explain additional Emergency response(s), First Aid concepts and importance to workers in electronic and electric fields.---
1.40Define Fire Safety.---
1.50Explain precautions needed in the area of electronics safety, statis causes, electrostatic discharge (ESD).---
2.00Principles of Alternating Current (AC)10%--
2.10Describe atomic structure, the components of the atom, their charges and importance to electronics technology.---
2.20Explain electronic physics terminology of work and energy.---
2.30Explain the different forms of energy and their applications.---
2.40Describe the causes and effects of static electricity including electrostatic discharge (ESD).---
2.50Explain basic uses for DC electricity.---
3.00Magnetism5%--
3.10Explain basic electrical and magnetic properties and differences.---
3.20Describe the properties of magnetic and non-magnetic materials.---
3.30Explain magnetomotive force (MMF).---
3.40Explain magnetic fields and lines of force.---
4.00Electronic Components10%--
4.10Identify electronic components and their basic usages: Capacitors, Resistors and band color code, Insulators, Conductors, Switches, Fuses, Circuit Breakers, Batteries---
5.00Ohms Law and Watts Law for Electronics10%--
5.10Summarize Ohms Law.---
5.20Explain how to calculate current, voltage or resistance using Ohms Law.---
5.30Define Joules and Kilowatt-hour as energy units.---
5.40Describe Watts Law.---
5.50Explain how to calculate current, voltage or resistance using Watts Law.---
5.60Explain the characteristics of DC resistance.---
6.00Basic Mathematics for Electronics10%--
6.10Describe the basic functions of a scientific calculator.---
6.20Explain basic algebraic math and its application in DC electronics.---
6.30Identify the scientific symbols used in DC electronics.---
6.40Convert fixed numbers to scientific notation.---
6.50Identify the fundamental and supplementary units that are the bases of the International System of Units (SI).---
6.60Explain the common metric prefixes: tera, giga, mega, kilo, deci, milli, micro, nano, pico.---
6.70Demonstrate standard metric conversions.---
7.00Electronic Measurements and Equipment10%--
7.10Describe electronic measurements and their applications to DC electronics: Current, Voltage, Resistance, Power.---
7.20Explain "meter" construction, components and usage.---
7.30Differentiate between a digital multimeter and an analog meter.---
8.00Series Circuits for DC Electronics10%--
8.10Explain how a series circuit is used in DC electronics equipment.---
8.20Find total resistance in a series circuit.---
8.30Calculate an unknown current, voltage or resistance in a series circuit, using Ohm's Law.---
8.40Describe Kirchhoff's voltage law in a series circuit.---
9.00Parallel Circuits for DC Electronics10%--
9.10Explain how a parallel circuit is used in DC electronic equipment.---
9.20Solve for total resistance of a parallel circuit.---
9.30Apply Kirchhoff's current law in a parallel circuit.---
9.40Calculate current, in a parallel circuit, using the current-divider rule.---
10.00Series/Parallel Combination Circuits for Electronics15%--
10.10Describe the basic series/parallel combination circuit.---
10.20Calculate current, voltage, and resistance in a combination unit.---
10.30Describe how Thevenin's theorem is used to simplify an equivalent series/parallel circuit.---
10.40Solve for an unknown value in a combination circuit using Kirchhoff's law.---
10.50Define Wheatstone bridge circuit and its usage.---
10.60Identify unknown voltages, currents, resistances and power dissipation in a loaded voltage divider circuit.---
11.00Battery Power Supplies5%--
11.10Describe battery construction.---
11.20Describe battery ratings/outputs.---
11.30Explain charging and re-charging principles (electrochemical reactions).---