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Welcome to the World of Electronics!

In this exciting course, you’ll dive into the fascinating world of electronics and learn how the gadgets we use every day actually work. Get ready to:

Master the Basics: Understand the key concepts behind electronics, like circuits, voltage, and resistance.
Hands-on Soldering: Learn the essential skills of electronic soldering and building circuits from scratch.
Create Your Own Projects: Work on an exciting, real-world microcontroller project where you’ll design, simulate, and prototype circuits to solve a challenge!

Why Choose Electronics?

Ever wondered how your phone, computer, or game console works? Electronics is behind all these amazing devices! In this course, you'll gain the skills to not only understand how these devices function but also how to design and create your own tech solutions to everyday problems.

If you're someone who loves taking ideas and turning them into something you can actually use, this course is for you!

Technical Skills

Your focus will be on these primary areas and draw on other technical skills as required by your project:

Basic Electronic Literacy
Design and construction of electronic environments
Interfacing procedures in specifc electronic environments
Techniques in contructing a specified electronic and embedded system

Cost/Contribution

The course requires a contribution of around $50 to cover the materials and components you'll use for your take-home projects throughout the year.

The Teacher's Role

In this course, the teacher is here to:

- Guide Your Learning: Help you develop technical skills and give you the resources you need.
- Support Your Growth: Point you to alternative sources of information or experts when needed.
- Assist with the Design Process: Help you apply the design process to your projects, making sure you’re learning and growing at every step.

But remember, it’s not the teacher’s job to tell you exactly what to do or give you the answers.

The teacher’s role is to guide you in developing your own skills and understanding of electronics, so you can become an expert in your own right!

The Student's Role

In this course, you're not just a student — you're a future inventor! Here’s what you’ll be doing:

Learn New Skills: You’ll pick up exciting new technical skills and sharpen the ones you already have.
Work Together: You’ll be helping each other out and working as a team. Collaboration is key, especially when it comes to project work!
Project Focus: The projects are a huge part of this course. They’ll help you put your knowledge into action and take your learning to the next level.
Stay Motivated: Project work can sometimes feel tough, but we’ll find ways to keep our energy high and make sure we’re always moving forward.
You’re the Experts: You already know a lot! There will be times when you know more than us in certain areas, and that’s awesome. Our job is to listen, support, and help you reach new heights.

Let’s make this journey fun and exciting!

Resources Required

Below is a list of resources you are expected to use in this class:

Batteries: Own 9V or AA batteries or other depending on your project
Headphones: At every class so you can watch the required videos for the tasks
Working files: Any files you are working on must be available in class at all times
Schoology: All course information and tasks will be distributed through Schoology
Tools: Although we supply some tools it may be better to have your set
Multimeter: Multimeters are provided but you are encouraged to buy your own especially if electronics is your "thing"
Components: Standard ones are provided but you you want to do something different you may need to buy your own

Course Outline - For Teachers

Topics to cover:

Basics concepts

What is electricity? (More will be done in science)
What are Voltage, Current and Resistance? - https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/voltage-current-resistance-and-ohms-law
Ohm’s Law - Short Circuits Vol 2 pg 35

Components and symbols

General - Batteries, switches, resistors and LDRs
Transistors and diodes (Also LEDs)

Measuring equipment

Multimeters
- What it is?
- How to use it?

Basic Circuit diagrams

What is a closed/ open circuit?
Using symbols to create a diagram

Soldering

How to solder
Practising solder using old resistors
Building up circuits using copper tape on card board
Practising on Vero board

Projects

Lighthouse with LDR and transistor using copper tape
Build AXE092 PCB
Using PBasic with Picaxe 08M2
Provide students with options to create different software functionality with standard hardware
Students complete this as a project explain the circuit design and how they build it

Indicators of Progression

Students can:

Name various components and explain basic functions
- Build up basic electronics circuits and explain the behaviour of the electronic system
- Discuss the operational function of electronic components in a practical context.
- Use datasheets or calculations to assist in choosing appropriate passive component types and values
- Construct and test reliable functional systems using copper tape or Vero board
- Construct a microcontroller kitset and program this for basic functionality
- Use Google Docs to record progress, general reflections and project documents

Technological Practice

Students will:

Planning for practice

Undertake basic planning to ensure resources, knowledge and skills available to enable successful development of an electronic circuit

Outcome development and evaluation

Recognise the importance of testing tools in developing and debugging circuits

Technological knowledge

Students will:

Technological Systems

Identify various components and their functions
Use basic electronics components to create functional circuits
Understand how basic electronic systems transform inputs to outputs

Nature of technology

Students will:

Characteristics of technology

Understand the role of electronics in society

Characteristics of technological outcomes

Understand how the electronic circuits created may be used in various contexts and that the functional and physical properties are fit for purpose

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