electricity and electronics academic standards

Electricity & Electronics: Standards-based Curriculum

The electricity and electronics curriculum is designed to satisfy several national and California state academic content standards.  Collected here are summaries of the standards germane to electricity and electronics, 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 electricity and electronics module. 

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

• California Engineering Technology Standards

• California Drafting Technology Standards

• California Algebra 1 Standards

• California Algebra 2 Standards

• California Physics Standards

Correlation matrices showing how each electricity and electronics lesson satisfies content standards. 

• Algebra 1 correlation matrix

• Algebra 2 correlation matrix

• Chemistry correlation matrix

• Drafting correlation matrix

• Engineering Technology correlation matrix

• Geometry correlation matrix

• Language Arts correlation matrix

• Physics correlation matrix

• SCANS correlation matrix

Lesson plans for each electricity and electronics week showing strategies for conveying and assessing the standards.

• Week 1: Historical Perspective

• Week 2: Atomic charge

• Week 3: Electromotive Force

• Week 4: Current

• Week 5: Capacitors and Inductors

• Week 6: Power