Paramus High School

Paramus, New Jersey

CURRICULUM OUTLINE

Department: Creative Arts

Course: CA Electronics/Robotics Tech. I

Level: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

This segment of the creative arts curriculum fulfills the following NJCCC Standards for:

Career Education and Consumer, Family and Life Skills 9.1 and 9.2

Mathematics 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 and 4.5

Technology Literacy 8.1 and 8.2

  1. Course Description:

This course is designed to provide students with a working knowledge of electronics in today’s society. In our ever-changing technological society, the major force of change is in the electronics field. Students need to keep up with technology in order to be prepared for the twenty-first century. Students will be involved throughout this half-year course with numerous problem-solving activities, which include the designing of practical projects, such as sensing devices, burglar alarms, robotic operations and computer applications.

  1. Course Objectives:
  1. The development of good work habits and mental attitude toward doing a required or voluntary job.
  2. Develop ability to get along with people, cooperate for benefit of all.
  3. To become safety conscious at all times and develop safety habits.
  1. Realize and understand the importance of the Technology/Industrial Arts activities (as a whole) in our society today.
  2. To broaden the pupils’ knowledge of tools, as well as to develop usable skills.
  3. Create an interest and develop relationships between Industrial Arts, Science, Mathematics, English, Social Studies and Art.
  4. Develop habits of orderly plan of procedure.
  5. A student should be able to evaluate his own performance as well as that of others for degrees of success and the ability to recognize if more effort is needed individually.
  6. Develop the ability to accept constructive criticism without making excuses.

III Major Concepts and Topics

  1. Electronic Symbols

1.SPST

2.SPDT

  1. DPST
  2. DPDT
  3. ROTARY
  4. PBNC
  5. PBND
  6. RELAY
  7. MAGNETIC Reed
  8. Fuse
  9. Resistor
  10. Potentiometer
  11. Hermiston
  12. Photoresistor
  13. Volt Depend Resistor
  1. Diode
  2. Zener Diode
  3. Tunnel Diode
  4. Led
  5. Photo Diode
  6. Meter
  7. Transformer
  8. Speaker
  9. Buzzer
  10. Motor
  11. Transistor
  12. UJT Transistor
  13. NPN Photo Transistor
  14. PNP Photo Transistor
  15. No connection Intersection
  16. Connecting Intersection
  17. Earth Ground
  18. Chasis Ground
  19. Antenna
  20. Bulb
  21. Battery
  22. Disc Capacitor
  23. Polarized Cap
  24. Variable Cap
  25. AND Gate
  26. OR Gate
  27. SEG Display
  28. AC power
  29. DC power

B. Series Laws

1. Ohms Law

2. Series 1 - Voltage

  1. Series 2 – Current
  2. Series 3 – Resistance
  3. Series 4 – Tracing a Circuit
  4. Series 5 – Does Not Function
  5. Series 6 – Short Circuit

C. Parallel Laws

1. Parallel 1 - Voltage

2. Parallel 2 - Current

  1. Parallel 3 – Resistance
  2. Parallel 4 – Tracing a Circuit
  3. Parallel 5 – Does Not Function
  4. Parallel 6 – Short Circuit

D. Series Parallel

1. Combination of Series and Parallel Laws

  1. D.C. Meters

1. Voltage

2. Current

3. Continuity

  1. Robotics
  1. Computer Control
  2. Application
  3. Future

IV.Students Skill Objective

  1. Identify electronic symbols
  2. Identify fundamental relations between current, voltage and resistance known as Ohms Law.
  3. State Watts Law
  4. List the basic uses of a Capacitor, Resistor, Diode, Transistor
  5. List the properties of a series circuit
  6. List the properties of a parallel circuit
  7. Use 5 sensors in the solution of a problem
  8. Design and assemble:
  1. Tilt motion sensor
  2. Membrane switch
  3. Water sensor
  4. Fire sensor
  5. Magnetic reed
  1. List and demonstrate the proper steps involved in making a printed circuit

Board.

  1. List and demonstrate the proper steps involved in the soldering process.
  2. Design and assemble an alarm system. Apply the five sensors to an alarm system.
  1. Evaluation Procedures

A. Through the laboratory experiments and solutions to problems, develop and apply knowledge and skills.

  1. Demonstrate proper use of test instruments.
  2. Establish a working knowledge of math for electronics
  3. Construction of projects when exploring solutions to problems.
  4. Properly write laboratory documentation.
  1. Suggested Materials
  1. Bulbs, batteries, wire and “shoe box” materials, buzzer, test leads, PC

Boards, resistors, capacitors, SCR’s, Diodes.