Grade 6 CTE Alabama Standards

Technical Skills

Health and Wellness

Health Science Principles

Medical Terminology

Medical Math

Communication

Ethics

Foundational Standards

Describe a variety of healthcare professions, indicating the purpose and scope of practice of each one.

Research and report on the historical development of the healthcare industry, its leaders, and its response to major scientific advancements.

Research and report on the impact of medical research on the healthcare industry.

Investigate and present information about a healthcare career area of interest.

Identify and explain legal and ethical practices related to the healthcare industry, including malpractice, negligence, invasion of privacy, HIPAA, ethics and law, Patients’ Bill of Rights, licensure, and use of social media.

Research and report on a medical malpractice case.

Demonstrate verbal and nonverbal communication techniques appropriate for healthcare industry settings.

Apply the metric system to convert standard weights, measurements, and volumes commonly used in a healthcare setting.

Determine time using the 24-hour time format utilized in the healthcare industry.

Identify common medical terms and abbreviations associated with the healthcare industry.

Describe basic structures and functions of the human body systems.

Research and report on current health and wellness topics.

Explain risk factors that contribute to illness, including heredity, environment, lifestyle, diet, and age.

Describe environmental conditions and lifestyle choices that affect wellness.

Explain how cultural and individual differences relate to wellness and quality of life and how these differences impact the overall health of society.

Summarize practices for the prevention and early detection of diseases, including health screenings and examinations.

Measure, record, and graph height and weight.

Demonstrate medical aseptic techniques for handwashing.

Demonstrate basic first aid skills.

Demonstrate cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), use of an automated external defibrillator (AED), and first aid for choking victims.

Incorporate safety procedures in handling, operating, and maintaining tools and machinery; handling materials; utilizing personal protective equipment; maintaining a safe work area; and handling hazardous materials and forces.

Demonstrate effective workplace and employability skills, including communication, awareness of diversity, positive work ethic, problem-solving, time management, and teamwork.

Explore the range of careers available in the field and investigate their educational requirements and demonstrate job-seeking skills including resume-writing and interviewing.

Advocate and practice safe, legal, responsible, and ethical use of information and technology tools specific to the industry pathway.

Participate in a Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO) to increase knowledge and skills and to enhance leadership and teamwork.

Demonstrate effective infection control techniques as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and The Joint Commission guidelines.

Healthcare Professions

Information Technology in Health Care

Biotechnology Research and Development

Support Services

Health Informatics

Diagnostic Services

Therapeutic Services

Introduction to Health Careers

Foundational Standards

Research the history of health careers and describe how careers have advanced throughout the years.

Identify and describe the five health science career pathways.

Define and use general medical terminology, including word roots, prefixes, and suffixes.

Explain the importance of legal and ethical behaviors in health careers.

Research and share information on some of the careers available in therapeutic services, including salary, educational requirements, working conditions, advantages, and disadvantages.

Describe common characteristics of careers in the therapeutic services career pathway.

Identify and demonstrate skills required to enter careers in the therapeutic services career pathway.

Research and share information on some of the careers available in diagnostic services, including salary, educational requirements, working conditions, advantages, and disadvantages.

Describe common characteristics of careers in the diagnostic services career pathway.

Identify and demonstrate skills required to enter careers in the diagnostic services career pathway.

Perform lab activities related to diagnostic services.

Research and share information about some of the careers available in health informatics, including salary, educational requirements, working conditions, advantages, and disadvantages.

Describe common characteristics of careers in the health informatics career pathway.

Identify and demonstrate skills required to enter careers in the health informatics career pathway.

Perform office functions related to health informatics.

Research and share information regarding some of the careers available in the support services career pathway including salary, educational requirements, working conditions, advantages, and disadvantages.

Describe common characteristics of careers in the support services career pathway.

Identify and demonstrate skills required to enter careers in the support services career pathway.

Research and share information about employability skills related to support services.

Research and share information about some of the careers available in the biotechnology research and development career pathway, including salary, educational requirements, working conditions, advantages, and disadvantages.

Describe common characteristics of careers in the biotechnology research and development career pathway.

Identify and demonstrate skills required to enter careers in the biotechnology research and development career pathway.

Identify information technology careers in the Health Science career cluster and summarize the responsibilities, tasks, and skills they require.

Identify ethical, legal, and security issues faced by healthcare professionals.

Use various types of Internet search engines effectively to locate information relevant to the Health Science career cluster.

Incorporate safety procedures in handling, operating, and maintaining tools and machinery; handling materials; utilizing personal protective equipment; maintaining a safe work area; and handling hazardous materials and forces.

Demonstrate effective workplace and employability skills, including communication, awareness of diversity, positive work ethic, problem-solving, time management, and teamwork.

Explore the range of careers available in the field and investigate their educational requirements and demonstrate job-seeking skills including resume-writing and interviewing.

Advocate and practice safe, legal, responsible, and ethical use of information and technology tools specific to the industry pathway.

Participate in a Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO) to increase knowledge and skills and to enhance leadership and teamwork.

Demonstrate effective infection control techniques as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and The Joint Commission guidelines.

Design

Explain the role of troubleshooting, research and development, invention and innovation, and experimentation in problem solving.

Recognizing how trouble shooting is a way of finding out why something does not work so that it can be fixed

Explaining how invention and innovation are creative ways to turn ideas into real things

Documenting the process of experimentation, which is common in science, and can be used to solve technological problems

Describe the attributes of design

Explaining that the design process is a purposeful method of planning practical solutions to problems

Recognizing the requirements for a design include such factors as the desired elements and features of a product or system or the limits that are placed on the design

Develop an understanding of the engineering design process.

Identifying how the engineering design process involves defining a problem, generating ideas, selecting a solution, testing the solution(s), making the item, evaluating it, and presenting the results

Explaining why when designing an object, it is important to be creative and consider all ideas

Describing how models are used to communicate and test design ideas and processes

The Designed World

Identify advances and innovations in medical technologies and health care.

Recognizing that technological advances have made it possible to create new devices, to repair or replace certain parts of the body, and to provide a means of mobility

Recognizing why vaccines are developed for use in immunization

Explaining how many tools and devices have been designed to help provide clues about health and provide a safe environment

Identify advances and innovations in agricultural and related biotechnologies.

Describing how artificial ecosystems are human-made environments that are designed to function as a unit and are comprised of humans, plants, and animals

Recognizing that most agricultural waste can be recycled

Explaining that many processes used in agriculture require different procedures, products, or systems

Identify advances and innovations in energy and power technologies.

Defining energy and power

Recognizing that energy comes in different forms

Describing how tools, machines, products, and systems use energy in order to do work

Identify advances and innovations in information and communications technologies.

Identifying the processing of information through the use of technology can be used to help humans make decisions and solve problems

Describing how information can be acquired and sent through a variety of technological sources, including print and electronic media

Identifying communication technology as the transfer of messages among people and/or machines over distances through the use of technology

Identify advances and innovations in transportation technologies.

Identifying how the use of transportation allows people and goods to move from place to place

Describing why a transportation system may lose efficiency or fail if one part is missing or malfunctioning or if a subsystem is not working

Identify advances and innovations in manufacturing technologies.

Describing how processing systems convert natural materials into products

Explaining that manufacturing processes include designing products, gathering resources, and using tools to separate, form, and combine materials in order to produce products

Explaining that the manufacturing enterprises exist because of a consumption of goods

Identify advances and innovations in construction technologies.

Describing that modern communities are usually planned according to guidelines

Explaining that structures need to be maintained

Classifying systems used in buildings

Recognize Alabama’s sixteen career clusters and associated pathways and their relationship to technology.

Describing how pathways lead students through secondary and postsecondary training towards a credential

Identifying employment opportunities associated with the clusters

Explaining employment skills for securing and keeping a job

Nature of Technology

Develop an understanding of the characteristics and scope of technology.

Identifying how things that are found in nature differ from things that are human-made in how they are produced and used

Explaining how tools, materials, and skills are used to make things and carry out tasks

Explaining how creative thinking and economic and cultural influences shape technological development

Develop an understanding of core concepts of technology.

Identifying a subsystem that operates as part of another system

Describing when parts of a system are missing, it may not work as planned

Illustrating how resources are the things needed to get a job done

Describing how tools are used to design, make, use, and assess technology

Explaining that tools and machines extend human capabilities

Develop an understanding of the relationships among technologies and other fields of study.

Explaining how technologies are often combined

Explaining how various relationships exist between technology and other fields of study

Technology and Society

Develop an understanding of the cultural, social, economic, and political affects of technology.

Summarizing when using technology, results can be good or bad

Explaining that the use of technology can have unintended consequences

Summarize the effects of technology on the environment.

Describing how waste must be appropriately recycled or disposed of to prevent unnecessary harm to the environment

Identifying how the use of technology affects the environment in good and bad ways

Explain the role of society in the development and use of technology.

Describing how people’s wants and needs change, new technologies are developed, and old ones are improved to meet those changes

Explaining how family, community, and economic concerns may expand or limit the development of technologies

Understand the influence of technology on history

Summarizing why people have made tools to provide food, to make clothing, and to protect themselves

Abilities for a Technological World

Apply the design process

Collecting information about everyday problems that can be solved by technology, and generate ideas and requirements for solving the problem

Explaining that the process of designing involves presenting some possible solutions in visual form and then selecting the best solution(s) from many

Testing and evaluating the solutions for the design problem

Improving the design solutions

Develop the abilities to use and maintain technological products and systems.

Following step-by-step instructions to assemble a product

Selecting and safely using tools, products, and systems for specific tasks

Using computers to access and organize information

Explaining why common symbols, such as numbers and words, are used to communicate ideas

Assess the impact of products and systems

Classifying collected information in order to identify patterns

Assessing the influence of a specific technology on the individual, family, community, and environment

Evaluating the trade-offs of using a product or system and decide when it can be used

Design Process

Utilize the design process to produce products and systems.

Identify the steps of an engineering design process.

Identify criteria and constraints in a design.

Describe how the design process is used to develop solutions for a problem.

Describe the importance of documentation and how it is used to communicate ideas.

Model designs to transform ideas into practical solutions.

Obtain, evaluate, and share information to support the assertion that there is no perfect design.

Practice brainstorming as a group problem-solving design process in which each person in the group presents ideas in an open forum.

Identify two-dimensional and three-dimensional representations of the design solution

Digital Literacy

Describe the permanence of digital data and the importance of managing one’s digital identity and reputation.

Engage in positive, safe, legal, and ethical behaviors when using technology, including during social interactions online and when using networked devices.

Identify research strategies to locate information and other resources for their intellectual and/or creative pursuits.

Identify information from digital resources, using a variety of tools and methods to create a collection of artifacts that demonstrates meaningful connections or conclusions.

Identify real-world issues, develop ideas, and pursue solutions to address the issues.

Scope of Technology

Describe the development of technology as a human activity that is the result of creatively meeting individual or collective needs.

Explain the close link between technology and creativity and how it results in innovation.

Describe technological systems, including input, processes, output, and feedback.

Explain how technological systems can be connected to one another.

Identify the difference between open loop and closed loop systems.

Technology and Society

Identify inventions and innovations that have evolved through slow and methodical processes of testing and refinement.

Identify positive and negative ways the use of technology affects humans

Investigate the management of waste produced by technological systems as a societal issue.

Describe how technologies can be used to repair damage caused by natural disasters and to break down waste from various products and systems

Describe the development of a technology from the demands, values, and interests of employers

Design Process

Design a plan to produce products and systems.

Create criteria and constraints in a design.

Use the design process to develop solutions for a problem

Employ brainstorming in a group problem-solving setting where each person presents design process related ideas in an open forum as part of the design process.

Model two-dimensional and three-dimensional solutions of a design.

Test and modify designs to transform ideas into practical solutions

Accurately identify different resources used in projects.

Make a product or system to solve a problem and document the solution.

Digital Literacy

Create and maintain a digital identity and reputation, demonstrating an awareness of the permanence of one’s actions in the digital world.

Demonstrate an understanding of and respect for the rights and obligations of using and sharing intellectual property.

Manage their personal data to maintain digital privacy and security.

Create strategies to locate information and other resources for their intellectual or creative pursuits.

Generate ideas about real-world issues and problems and pursue answers and solutions to them.

Scope of Technology

Investigate how technological systems can be connected to one another.

Explore different technologies that involve different sets of processes.

Gather and present information about ways corporations may create demand for a product by bringing it onto the market and advertising it.

Technology and Society

Differentiate between positive and negative effects of technology usage on human beings, including their safety, comfort, choices, and attitudes about technology’s development and use

Analyze the management of waste produced by technological systems as a societal issue

Research and communicate how technologies can be used to repair damage caused by natural disasters and to break down waste from the use of various products and systems.

Identify ethical issues associated with the development and use of technology.

Describe how social and cultural priorities and values are reflected in technological devices.

Explain how meeting societal expectations can be a driving force behind the acceptance and use of products and systems.