The learning objectives for this module include:

• Recognize the career opportunities and requirements in biotechnology research and development.

• Demonstrate selected techniques used by technicians in a biotech lab.

• Identify some of the strategies used by scientists to develop new medications.

• Identify how researchers use fungi, bacteria, and viruses to develop medications.

• Recognize the role of DNA and genetics in the development of new medications.

• Recognize how researchers identify needs and evaluate new medications.

Project-based activities include:

• Activity: Biotechnology R&D Overview & Terminology

• Activity: Lab Safety & Testing Antibiotics 

• Activity: Measuring Bacterial Inhibition

• Activity: Pre-clinical Testing & Development-Sunscreen

• Activity: Narrative Writing & Checkpoint Test

• Activity: Biodiversity- Bacterial Inhibition with Spices

• Activity: Analyzing Bacteria Growth & the CODON Game

• Activity: DNA Model

• Activity: Critical Trials Statistics

• Activity: Argumentative Writing, Career Research & Planning, and Checkpoint Test

In this module, you will begin your development of computer-aided drafting and design skills while exploring the evolution from sketches to software. 

Project-based activities include:

• Activity: Drafting Tools & Terminology

• Activity: Using a Scale Ruler & Virtual Walkthroughs

• Activity: Technical Drawings

• Activity: Orthographic & Isometric Drawings

• Activity: Introduction to CAD Software

• Activity: Narrative Writing & Checkpoint Test

• Activity: Using CAD Software to Create 2D Sketches

• Activity: Design Brief

• Activity: Argumentative Writing, Career Research & Planning and Checkpoint Test

In this module, you will examine the evolution of computer graphics in the design and development of 2D and 3D games.

Project-based activities include:

• Activity: Game Development Terminology & Unity Learn

• Activity: Unity Platformer Microgame - Part I

• Activity: Unity Platformer Microgame - Part II

• Activity: Unity Karting Microgame - Part I

• (Bonus) Activity: Elements & Principles of Design Matrix

• Activity: Narrative Writing & Checkpoint Test

• Activity: Unity Karting Microgame - Part II

• Activity: Design Brief

• Activity: Argumentative Writing, Career Research & Planning and Checkpoint Test

In this module, you will explore the fundamental concepts of cosmetology and barbering while practicing basic techniques in the field.

Project-based activities include:

• Activity: Personal Care Services Career Pathways

• Activity: Making an Exfoliating Scrub

• Activity: Nail Technician

• Activity: Basic Hair Techniques

• Activity: Get Barbicide Certified

• Activity: Narrative Writing & Checkpoint Test

• Activity: The Art of Shaving

• Activity: Face Charts

• Activity: Design Brief

• Activity: Argumentative Writing, Career Research & Planning, and Checkpoint Test

In this module, you will employ the seven S's of crime scene investigation as you utilize laboratory techniques used in forensic science to study fibers, fingerprints, chromatography, handwriting, and blood spatter.

Project-based activities include:

• Activity: Terminology & Using the Proscope

• Activity: Investigating Fibers

• Activity: Fingerprint Analysis

• Activity: Using Ink Chromatography

• Activity: Handwriting Analysis

• Activity: Narrative Writing & Checkpoint Test

• Activity: Impression Evidence

• Activity: Blood Spatter Analysis

• Activity: Design Brief

• Activity: Argumentative Writing, Career Research & Planning, and Checkpoint Test

In this module, you will examine the roles of dental professionals from hygiene to therapeutics as you assess, chart, diagnose, remove decay, and create dental castings.

The learning objectives for this module include:

• Identify the roles of dental professionals and the preparation for each occupation.

• Recognize parts of the jaw, teeth, and mouth.

• Identify appropriate dental care at each developmental stage.

• Identify common dental problems.

• Recognize how to correct common dental problems.

• Recognize common diseases of the teeth, gums, jaw, and mouth.

Project-based activities include:

• Activity: Dentistry Overview & Terminology

• Activity: Tooth Anatomy & Charting

• Activity: Dental Hygiene 

• Activity: Dental Radiography

• Activity: Narrative Writing & Checkpoint Test

• Activity: Dental Research 

• Activity: Removing Tooth Decay

• Activity: Making a Dental Impression & Casting a Tooth Model

• Activity: Dental Exam & Cavity Filling

• Activity: Argumentative Writing, Career Research & Planning, and Checkpoint Test

In this module, you will explore the fundamental elements and principles of modern design with an emphasis on providing design solutions to meet marketing strategies from concept to completion.

Project-based activities include:

Activity: Elements & Principles of Design Matrix

Activity: Creating a Color Palette

Activity: Decorating Styles & Design Boards

Activity: Designing Fashion

Activity: Narrative Writing & Checkpoint Test

Activity: The 4 Ps of the Marketing Mix

Activity: Design Brief

Activity: Argumentative Writing, Career Research & Planning, and Checkpoint Test

In this module, you will learn the fundamentals of 3D coordinate programming and then design and create simple 3D printed projects while exploring the use of 3D printers in a wide range of industries.

Project-based activities include:

• Activity: Video - 3D Printing

• Activity: 2D Cartesian Coordinates

• Activity: 3D Cartesian Coordinates

• Activity: Making a 3D Part

• Activity: Narrative Writing & Checkpoint Test

• Activity: Making a Keychain

• Activity: Design Brief

• Activity: Argumentative Writing, Career Research & Planning, and Checkpoint Test

In this module, you will build, test, and examine circuits to discover the science behind the electronics we use every day.

Project-based activities include:

• Activity: Electrical Charges

• Activity: Introduction to the Trainer & Multimeter

• Activity: Resistance & Continuity - Measuring Voltage & Current

• Activity: Magnetism

• Activity: Electromagnetism

• Activity: Potentiometers & DC Series Circuits

• Activity: Narrative Writing & Checkpoint Test

• Activity: DC Parallel Circuits

• Activity: DC Motors, Generators & Switches

• Activity: Design Brief

• (Bonus) Activity: Internet Research - Electricity

• (Bonus) Activity: Internet Research - Conserving Electrical Energy

• Activity: Argumentative Writing, Career Research & Planning, and Checkpoint Test

In this module, you will examine the roles and responsibilities of an EMT as you perform CPR, utilize an AED, dress wounds, stabilize limbs, and assess burns. 

The learning objectives for this module include:

• Recognize the role of Emergency Medical Technicians in the healthcare industry.

• Identify the steps for the primary survey (checking Airway, Breathing, and Circulation and blood pressure.)

• Recognize the differences between viral and bacterial disease, and how to prevent disease transmission.

• Identify how to control bleeding, common types of wounds, and bandaging for various wounds.

• Identify the first aid steps for common emergencies: choking, poison, and burns.

• Recognize the signs of a heart attack.

• Demonstrate how to perform CPR and how to use an AED.

Project-based activities include:

• Activity: EMT Overview & Terminology

• Activity: Know Your ABCs

• Activity: Applying a Splint

• Activity: Infection Control Procedures

• Activity: Narrative Writing & Checkpoint Test

• Activity: Wound Care

• Activity: Flammable Textiles

• Activity: CPR

• Activity: Automatic External Defibrillator

• Activity: Argumentative Writing, Career Research & Planning, and Checkpoint Test

In this module, you will examine and test the principles of operation, fundamentals of combustion, and adjustment procedures for a four-cycle engine.

Project-based activities include:

• Activity: The Stirling Engine

• Activity: Internet Research - Stirling Engine Animation

• Activity: Tools

• Activity: Video - Energy & Power Parts & Tools Identification

• Activity: Identifying Engine Systems

• Activity: Internet Research - Four Stroke Engine

• Activity: Ignition System

• Activity: Engine Internal Parts

• Activity: Narrative Writing & Checkpoint Test

• Activity: Internet Research - Mousetrap Racer Tutorial

• Activity: Distance Calculation

• Activity: Design Brief - Mousetrap Racer

• Activity: Internet Research - Mousetrap Racer Tutorial on Mass

• Activity: Internet Research - Mousetrap Racer Tutorial on Force & Friction

• Activity: Argumentative Writing, Career Research & Planning, and Checkpoint Test

In this module, you will demonstrate STEM skills as you set up experiments and conduct research on water quality, soil, recycling, organic fertilizers, and plant life cycles. 

Project-based activities include:

• Activity: Fast Plant Investigation

• Activity: Observing Plant Growth

• Activity: pH Testing of Water Samples

• Activity: Soil Texture Investigation

• Activity: Testing Soil pH

• Activity: Video - Go Green

• Activity: Narrative Writing & Checkpoint Test

• Activity: Packaging Waste

• Activity: Design Brief

• Activity: Nutrient Extraction & Testing for Nitrogen

• Activity: Testing Soil for Potassium

• Activity: Testing Soil for Phosphorus

• Activity: Argumentative Writing, Career Research & Planning, and Checkpoint Test

In this module, you will investigate the four forces of flight as they apply to rockets, fixed-wing, and rotary aircraft. Additionally, you will apply problem-solving skills in the process of programming an unmanned aerial vehicle. 

Project-based activities include:

• Activity: Building the Rocket - Nose Cone & Body

• Activity: Building the Rocket - Finishing the Body & Final Assembly

• Activity: Testing the Rocket & Launch

• Activity: Basic Drone Operation

• Activity: Narrative Writing & Checkpoint Test

• Activity: Programming with DroneBlocks

• Activity: Design Brief

• Activity: Internet Research - Principles of Flight

• Activity: Argumentative Writing, Career Research & Planning, and Checkpoint Test

In this module, you will employ laboratory techniques to study fingerprints, chromatography, fibers, and elements of soil as you gather evidence and draw conclusions.

Project-based activities include:

• Activity: Internet Research - Crime Scene Investigator

• Activity: Learning to Use the Proscope

• Activity: Investigating Fibers

• Activity: Using Ink Chromatography

• Activity: Internet Research - FBI Fingerprinting & Investigating Fingerprints

• Activity: Narrative Writing & Checkpoint Test

• Activity: Finding Evidence in the Soil

• Activity: Latent Fingerprints

• Activity: Internet Research - Composite Drawing

• Activity: Design Brief

• Activity: Argumentative Writing, Career Research & Planning, and Checkpoint Test

In this module, you will examine the management and entrepreneurial skills necessary to work in establishments related to the field of hospitality and tourism.

• Activity: Hospitality & Tourism Key Terms & Concepts

• Activity: Be Our Guest

• Activity: Bon Appetit - Table for Two

• Activity: Where To? - Travel & Tourism

• Activity: College & Career Ready Gift Bags

• Activity: Narrative Writing & Checkpoint Test

• Activity: Let's Meet - Conference Room Layout Styles

• Activity: Design Brief

• Activity: Argumentative Writing, Career Research & Planning, and Checkpoint Test

In this module, you will gain the necessary insights and strategies to formulate a problem and express its solution(s) in such a way that a computer - human or machine - can effectively carry it out.

Project-based activities include:

• Activity: Computer ID & Terminology

• Activity: Working with Binary Numbers

• Activity: Using Truth Tables

• Activity: Basic Programming

• Activity: Narrative Writing & Checkpoint Test

• Activity: Paper Prototype Apps

• Activity: Design Brief

• Activity: Argumentative Writing, Career Research & Planning, and Checkpoint Test

In this module, you will apply engineering concepts in hands-on, problem-based learning while honing your interpersonal skills and understanding of the engineering design process, research and analysis, teamwork, communication methods, and societal impacts.

Project-based activities include:

• Activity: Great Engineering Achievements & Terminology

• Activity: Engineering Disciplines

• Activity: The Engineering Design Notebook

• Activity: Design Challenge!

• Activity: Technical Writing & Checkpoint Test

• Activity: Orthographic Drawings

• Activity: Design Brief

• Activity: Argumentative Writing, Career Research & Planning, and Checkpoint Test

In this module, you will examine the knowledge and skills needed in each of the five health science pathways; Biotech R&D, Diagnostics, Health Information Management, Support Services, and Therapeutics.

Project-based activities include:

• Activity: Pathway Exploration & Terminology

• Activity: Preventing Disease Transmission

• Activity: Checking Vital Signs

• Activity: Adaptive Equipment Evaluation

• Activity: Narrative Writing & Checkpoint Test

• Activity: Pipetting by Design

• Activity: Design Brief

• Activity: Argumentative Writing, Career Research & Planning, and Checkpoint Test

In this module, you will examine the fundamentals of laser and fiber optics technology while conducting a variety of hands-on experiments including the bending of light, and laser sound transmission.

Project-based activities include:

• Activity: Laser Light Distribution

• Activity: Total Internal Reflection

• Activity: Internet Research

• Activity: Communications & Fiber Optics

• Activity: Looking at Lenses

• Activity: Measuring Focal Length

• Activity: Refraction — Bending Light

• Activity: Internet Research

• Activity: Narrative Writing & Checkpoint Test

• Activity: Reflecting Light and Beam Divergence

• Activity: Design Brief

• Activity: Practical Uses of Fiber Optics

• Activity: Argumentative Writing, Career Research & Planning, and Checkpoint Test

In this module, you will examine the fundamentals of simple machines in the study of gears, sprockets, levers, and pulleys while experimenting with gear reduction, speed reduction, and mechanical advantage devices.

Project-based activities include:

• Activity: Trainer Components & Functions

• Activity: Internet Research - Inventions

• Activity: Three Classes of Levers

• Activity: Single and Double Pulleys

• Activity: Internet Research - Exploring Gears

• Activity: Changing the Direction of Force

• Activity: Gear Trains & Speed Change

• Activity: Multiple Speed Reductions

• Activity: Crazy Contraptions

• Activity: Narrative Writing & Checkpoint Test

• Activity: Sprocket Gears & Chain Drives

• Activity: Design Brief

• Activity: Argumentative Writing, Career Research & Planning, and Checkpoint Test

In this module, you will examine a wide range of mental health conditions and disorders affecting mood, thinking and behavior.

The learning objectives for this module include:

• Identify the roles of mental health professionals and the preparation for each occupation.

• Recognize some of the symptoms and treatment for depression, drug and alcohol disorders, and eating disorders.

• Identify the causes and treatments for bullying behavior.

• Identify types of learning disabilities and treatment options.

• Recognize causes and treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

• Recognize the signs of potential suicide and appropriate intervention.

• Recognize the symptoms and causes of mania and bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia.

Project-based activities include:

• Activity: Mental Health Overview & Terminology

• Activity: Listening & Depression Treatment

• Activity: Values & Empathy

• Activity: Substance Abuse Treatment View 

• Activity: Narrative Writing & Checkpoint Test

• Activity: Anti-Bullying Poster

• Activity: ADHD Simulation

• Activity: Stress Bingo

• Activity: Mental Illness Myths

• Activity: Argumentative Writing, Career Research & Planning, and Checkpoint Test

In this module, you will learn hands-on about the roles and responsibilities of nursing professionals including taking vitals, patient education, phlebotomy, suturing, and medical math (solutions & dilutions).

The learning objectives for this module include:

• Identify commonly used medical terminology relating to anatomy and treatment.

• Identify the responsibilities and relationships between different nursing occupations.

• Recognize the link between sanitation and infection.

• Demonstrate basic nursing skills including taking vital signs, using a stethoscope, taking a blood sample, and treating a wound.

• Demonstrate effective communication skills in working with patients and families.

• Use mathematics to calculate dosages and to evaluate effective treatments.

Project-based activities include:

• Activity: Nursing Overview & Terminology

• Activity: Handwashing

• Activity: Vital Signs - ABC: Airway, Breathing, Circulation

• Activity: Phlebotomy

• Activity: Narrative Writing & Checkpoint Test

• Activity: Sensing Patient Health

• Activity: Measurement, Dilutions, & Calculations

• Activity: Communications & Patient Education

• Activity: Suturing

• Activity: Argumentative Writing, Career Research & Planning, and Checkpoint Test

In this module, you will demonstrate the principles of pneumatics as you design and build pneumatic circuits with cylinders, directional valves, electric solenoids, regulators, and flow control valves.

Project-based activities include:

• Activity: Trainer Components

• Activity: Lifting a Weight with a Balloon

• Activity: Pneumatic Graphic Symbols

• Activity: Testing Pascal's Law

• Activity: Compressed Air Filters & Pressure Regulator Testing

• Activity: Measuring Airflow

• Activity: Controlling the Flow

• Activity: Controlling Airflow Direction

• Activity: Narrative Writing & Checkpoint Test

• Activity: Cylinder Fundamentals, Speed Control & Sequencing Circuits

• Activity: Force, Pressure, & Area

• Activity: Design Brief

• Activity: Internet Research - Hydraulic Systems

• Activity: Argumentative Writing, Career Research & Planning, and Checkpoint Test

In this module, you will demonstrate the principles of design and engineering in the creation of your own CO2 powered racer. This involves sketches, specifications, prototypes, and testing. 

Project-based activities include:

• Activity: Parts & Materials Inventory

• Activity: Specifications & Limitations

• Activity: Thumbnail Sketches

• Activity: Rough Sketches

• Activity: Internet Research - Drag Racing

• Activity: Final Drawing & Template

• Activity: Final Drawing & Prototype

• Activity: Dragster Construction

• Activity: Narrative Writing & Checkpoint Test

• Activity: Dragster Body Shaping & Smoothing

• Activity: Internet Research - Vehicle Safety

• Activity: Design Brief

• Activity: Designing a Vehicle

• Activity: Argumentative Writing, Career Research & Planning, and Checkpoint Test

In this module, you will apply the fundamentals of programming to develop solutions to several challenges that utilize specific sensors.

Project-based activities include:

• Activity: Introduction to VEX

• Activity: Building and Improving the Crawler

• Activity: Driving Base

• Activity: Sensors

• Activity: Using the Electromagnet

• Activity: Narrative Writing & Checkpoint Test

• Activity: Using the Eye Sensor

• Activity: Design Brief

• Activity: Argumentative Writing, Career Research & Planning, and Checkpoint Test

In this module, you will apply STEM skills as you design, build, test, record, and analyze a variety of beams, composites, trusses, and bridges. 

Project-based activities include:

• Activity: Building Beams

• Activity: Composite Beams

• Activity: Beam Testing

• Activity: Designing Trusses

• Activity: Truss Construction

• Activity: Narrative Writing & Checkpoint Test

• Activity: Testing the Trusses

• Activity: Video - Bridge Construction

• Activity: Design Brief

• Activity: Internet Research - Bridge Construction

• Activity: Argumentative Writing, Career Research & Planning, and Checkpoint Test

In this module, you will examine the pathway focused on changing the health status of patients over time through direct care, treatment, counseling, or health education information.

The learning objectives for this module include:

• Recognize the purpose of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy.

• Identify the similarities and differences between PT and OT.

• Describe how Therapists evaluate patients.

• Identify the purpose of Pediatric Occupational Therapy.

• Demonstrate treatment exercises prescribed by PT/OT practitioners.

Project-based activities include:

• Activity: Therapeutic Services Overview & Terminology

• Activity: Range of Motion

• Activity: Muscle Testing

• Activity: After Hip Replacement Surgery

• Activity: Narrative Writing & Checkpoint Test

• Activity: Cognitive Assessment

• Activity: Daily Living for Stroke Victims

• Activity: Hand Therapy

• Activity: Pediatric Therapy

• Activity: Argumentative Writing, Career Research & Planning, and Checkpoint Test

In this module, you will address the common tasks of diagnostics, therapeutics, education, and prevention of injuries to athletes.

The learning objectives for this module include:

• Recognize the role of the athletic trainer in sports medicine.

• Describe the training and licensing for the athletic trainer.

• Demonstrate treatment procedures for RICE, compression bandaging, splinting, and spine boarding.

• Recognize prevention, warning signs, and treatment of heart problems in athletes.

• Describe steps to identify, treat, and prevent spine and brain injuries.

• Recognize the dangers of steroids and other substances claiming to boost performance in sports.

Project-based activities include:

• Activity: Sports Medicine Overview & Terminology

• Activity: Basket Weave Taping & RICE

• Activity: Heart Testing

• Activity: Toe & Arch Injuries

• Activity: Narrative Writing & Checkpoint Test

• Activity: Knee Injuries & Rehabilitation

• Activity: Face Mask & Spine Boarding

• Activity: Steroids Presentation

• Activity: Brain Injury

• Activity: Argumentative Writing, Career Research & Planning, and Checkpoint Test

In this module, you will demonstrate the foundational techniques and principles of welding through real-world practice in a safe and controlled environment.

Project-based activities include:  

• Activity: Welding Terminology & Tool Identification

• Activity: Welding Safety & PPE

• Activity: Weaving Patterns & Welding Circuit

• Activity: Welding Technique - Part I (Butt Joint)

• Activity: Welding Technique - Part II (T-Joint)

• Activity: Narrative Writing & Checkpoint Test

• Activity: Welding Technique - Part III (Lap Joint)

• Activity: Design Brief

• Activity: Argumentative Writing, Career Research & Planning, and Checkpoint Test