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Transportation Class        

1 credit       Block Period 2 hrs.

  1 semester         18 weeks

 

 

Students will be doing hands-on activities in the lab.  Students will study Transportation systems.  Students will study the methods by which we move people and goods through various environments.

 

The environments studied will be terrestrial, marine, and aerospace with selected content from each in a past, contemporary, and futuristic perspective.

 

 

Students will design and build projects in the lab.  Students will learn information on different systems and careers in fields relating to each of the four modes of transportation which is covered in this class.

 

 

 

Students will learn the following basic principles and skills:

1.     Shop safety
2.      types of transportation
3.      lab work in auto mechanics
4.      lab work in small gas engines
5.      lab work in rocketry
6.      lab work in fluid power
7.      lab work in control systems
8.      study of Mass transit systems
9.      hand tools
10.    machines for lab work