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Civil Engineering: Standards-based Curriculum

The civil engineering curriculum is designed to satisfy several national and California state academic content standards.  Collected here are summaries of the standards germane to civil engineering, correlation matrices showing what standards are satisfied by each lesson, and lesson plans for each of the six weeks curriculum.

Descriptive summaries of the content standards significantly referenced in the civil engineering module. 

• National SCANS [Dept. of Labor] Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills

• California Algebra 1 Standards

• California Geometry Standards

• California Physics Standards

• California Investigation and Experimentation Standards

Correlation matrices showing how each civil engineering lesson satisfies content standards. 

• Algebra 1 correlation matrix

• Geometry correlation matrix

• Investigation and Experimentation

• Physics correlation matrix

Lesson plans for each aerospace engineering week showing strategies for conveying and assessing the standards.

• Introduction to Civil Engineering

• Materials

• Structural Analysis I

• Structural Analysis II

• Bridge Construction

• Truss Factor of Safety and Characterization