1.1 Overview of Power Mechanics as a learning area

• The meaning and scope of power mechanics
• Career opportunities in power mechanics
• Power-mechanics activities in the locality
• The importance of power mechanics

• describe power mechanics as a learning area
• identify career opportunities in the power mechanics field
• evaluate activities related to power mechanics in the locality
• acknowledge the importance of power mechanics as a learning area

“How is power mechanics important in day-to-day life?”

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1. Overview of power mechanics
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   What power mechanics is and its scope, the careers it opens, the power-mechanics activities in the community, and why power mechanics matters in everyday life.
2. What power mechanics means
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   Breaking the name into power and mechanics, and how this learning area differs from wood, metal and electrical technology.
3. The scope of power mechanics
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   What the field covers: engines, motor vehicles, plant and farm machines, and the service, repair and maintenance that keep them working.
4. What you will learn in Grade 10
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   The four strands of the Grade 10 course: introduction and workshop, drawing, the vehicle, then engines - and why they come in that order.
5. Workshop careers in power mechanics
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   The core trades you meet in a Kenyan garage: motor vehicle mechanic, auto-electrician, body repairer and sprayer, and plant or farm machinery mechanic.
6. Career pathways from power mechanics
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   From Grade 10 into employment, TVET and engineering, vehicle inspection and teaching, or a garage and parts business of your own.
7. Power-mechanics activities in the locality
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   Finding the garages, parts shops, fuel stations, stages, tyre bays and farm engines that already operate in the learner's own community.
8. Evaluating local power-mechanics activities
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   Judging local garages and transport: jobs and service they give, problems such as fake parts and pollution, and opportunities for a skilled learner.
9. Power mechanics in daily life
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   How engines move people and goods, work farms, cover blackouts and run industry - the inquiry question opened in full.
10. Why power mechanics matters
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    Closing the sub-strand: daily life, careers, the economy and practical skill - the inquiry question answered, and a look ahead to the automobile's evolution.