Warwick School District

Course Description

Students will concentrate on basic energy, power, and transportation principles utilizing hands on activities in the rapidly progressing technological field. The course includes an overview of energy resources and the use of controlled energy (power). Transportation technologies provide an a field of focus in which to apply the knowledge and information.

Core Curriculum Content Standards

PA Common Core: Science and Technical Subjects (2012)

• Reading Informational Text: Students read, understand, and respond to informational text – with emphasis on comprehension, making connections among ideas and between texts with focus on textual evidence.

• GRADES 11-12

• Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts, attending to important distinctions the author makes and to any gaps or inconsistencies in the account.(3.5.11-12.A)
• Determine the central ideas or conclusions of a text; summarize complex concepts, processes, or information presented in a text by paraphrasing them in simpler but still accurate terms.(3.5.11-12.B)
• Follow precisely a complex multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks; analyze the specific results based on explanations in the text.(3.5.11-12.C)

• Writing: Students write for different purposes and audiences. Students write clear and focused text to convey a well-defined perspective and appropriate content.

• GRADES 11-12

• Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.(3.6.11-12.C)
• Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.(3.6.11-12.F)

PA Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice

• Mathematical Practices

• Grade 9-12

• Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. (9-12.1)
• Attend to precision.(9-12.6)

Sci & Tech - Physical Sciences: Chemistry and Physics (2009-2012)

• Sci & Tech - Physics

• PHYSICS

• Explain the translation and simple harmonic motion of objects using conservation of energy and conservation of momentum. Describe the rotational motion of objects using the conservation of energy and conservation of angular momentum. Explain how gravitational, electrical, and magnetic forces and torques give rise to rotational motion.(3.2.P.B2)

Sci & Tech - Technology and Engineering Education (2009-2012)

• The Scope of Technology

• GRADE 10

• Illustrate how the development of technologies is often driven by profit and an economic market.(3.4.10.A1)
• Interpret how systems thinking applies logic and creativity with appropriate comprises in complex real-life problems.(3.4.10.A2)
• Examine how technology transfer occurs when a new user applies an existing innovation developed for one purpose in a different function.(3.4.10.A3)

• GRADE 12

• Compare and contrast the rate of technological development over time.(3.4.12.A1)
• Describe how management is the process of planning, organizing, and controlling work.(3.4.12.A2)
• Demonstrate how technological progress promotes the advancement of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).(3.4.12.A3)

• Technology and Society

• GRADE 10

• Compare and contrast how the use of technology involves weighing the trade-offs between the positive and negative effects.(3.4.10.B1)
• Demonstrate how humans devise technologies to reduce the negative consequences of other technologies.(3.4.10.B2)

• GRADE 12

• Analyze ethical, social, economic, and cultural considerations as related to the development, selection, and use of technologies.(3.4.12.B1)

• Technology and Engineering Design

• GRADE 10

• Apply the components of the technological design process.(3.4.10.C1)
• Analyze a prototype and/or create a working model to test a design concept by making actual observations and necessary adjustments.(3.4.10.C2)

• GRADE 12

• Apply the concept that engineering design is influenced by personal characteristics, such as creativity, resourcefulness, and the ability to visualize and think abstractly.(3.4.12.C2)

• Abilities for a Technological World

• GRADE 10

• Refine a design by using prototypes and modeling to ensure quality, efficiency, and productivity of a final product.(3.4.10.D1)
• Diagnose a malfunctioning system and use tools, materials, and knowledge to repair it.(3.4.10.D2)
• Synthesize data, analyze trends, and draw conclusions regarding the effect of technology on the individual, society, and the environment.(3.4.10.D3)

• GRADE 12

• Verify that engineering design is influenced by personal characteristics, such as creativity, resourcefulness, and the ability to visualize and think abstractly.(3.4.12.D2)

• The Designed World

• GRADE 10

• Compare and contrast the major forms of energy: thermal, radiant, electrical, mechanical, chemical, nuclear and others.(3.4.10.E3)
• Evaluate structure design as related to function, considering such factors as style, convenience, safety, and efficiency.(3.4.10.E7)

• GRADE 12

• Compare and contrast the technologies of biotechnology, conservation, bio-fuels, and ecosystems as they relate to managing Earth’s resources effectively.(3.4.12.E2)
• Compare and contrast the importance of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) as it pertains to the manufactured world.(3.4.12.E6)

International Technology Education Association (2007)

• 9-12

• Students will develop an understanding of engineering design. (ITEA.9-12.9)
• Students will develop abilities to apply the design process. (ITEA.9-12.11)
• Students will develop the abilities to use and maintain technological products and systems. (ITEA.9-12.12)
• Students will develop the abilities to assess the impact of products and systems.(ITEA.9-12.13)
• Students will develop an understanding of and be able to select and use energy and power technologies. (ITEA.9-12.16)
• Students will develop an understanding of and be able to select and use transportation technologies.(ITEA.9-12.18)

Science

• Grade 11

• Physical Sciences

• Forms, Sources, Conversion, and Transfer of Energy

• Analyze energy sources and transfer of energy, or conversion of energy.(S11.C.2.1)
• Demonstrate that different ways of obtaining, transforming, and distributing energy have different environmental consequences.(S11.C.2.2)

• Principles of Motion and Force

• Use the principles of motion and force to solve real-world challenges.(S11.C.3.1)
• Explain common phenomena (e.g., a rock in a landslide, an astronaut during a space walk, a car hitting a patch of ice on the road) using an understanding of conservation of momentum.(S11.C.3.1.1)
• Design or evaluate simple technological or natural systems that incorporate the principles of force and motion (e.g., simple machines, compound machines).(S11.C.3.1.2)
• Explain how electricity induces magnetism and how magnetism induces electricity as two aspects of a single electromagnetic force.(S11.C.3.1.4)
• Calculate the mechanical advantage for moving an object by using a simple machine.(S11.C.3.1.5)
• Identify elements of simple machines in compound machines.(S11.C.3.1.6)

Units

Unit #1 - Safety

Unit #2 - Universal Systems and Technological Trade Offs

Unit #3 - Sources of Energy

Unit #4 - Aviation and Aerospace Study

Unit #5 - Electrical Systems

Unit #6 - Law of Energy Conservation

Unit #7 - Friction Study

Unit #8 - Innovative Transportation: Maglev Vehicles

Unit #9 - Mechanical Systems

Unit #10 - * Career/ Current Trends in Energy, Power and Transportation