Calculating the Size of a Residential Septic System
Calculating the Size of a Residential Septic System
The learner will make calculations used for installing septic systems in rural communities using the Ontario Building Code.
- Pen/pencil and paper and/or digital device
- Printer to print chart used in Task 4 (optional)
- Calculator or digital device with calculator function
A1. Read continuous text
Competency A: Find and Use Information
Task Group A1: Read continuous text
Level: 2
At this level, learners: Read texts to locate and connect ideas and information
Performance Descriptors
The learner:
• Makes connections between sentences and between paragraphs in a single text
• Scans text to locate information
• Locates multiple pieces of information in simple texts
• Reads more complex texts to locate a single piece of information
• Makes low-level inferences
• Follows the main events of descriptive, narrative, and informational texts
• Obtains information from detailed reading
• Begins to identify sources and evaluate information
Task Descriptors
• Scope of task is clearly defined
• Involves one text
• Is one paragraph or longer
• May include unfamiliar elements (e.g. vocabulary, context, topic)
Text types:
instructional, descriptive, narrative, and informational texts
Examples:
- Letters
- Emails
- Notices
ESKARGO:
Embedded Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes Reference Guide for Ontario - A1.2
A2. Interpret documents
Competency A: Find and Use Information
Task Group A2: Interpret documents
Level: 2
At this level, learners: Interpret simple documents to locate and connect information
Performance Descriptors
The learner:
- Performs limited searches using one or two search criteria
- Extracts information from tables and forms
- Locates information in simple graphs and maps
- Uses layout to locate information
- Makes connections between parts of documents
- Makes low-level inferences
- Begins to identify sources and evaluate information
Task Descriptors
- Scope of task is clearly defined
- Involves one document
- Uses a simple format
- Displays a limited amount of information
- Is typically up to one page in length
- May include unfamiliar elements (e.g. vocabulary, context, topic)
- Documents at this level may contain a paragraph or more of text
Examples:
- Forms
- Tables
- Simple graphs
- Street maps
- Simple flow charts
- Floor plans
ESKARGO:
Embedded Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes Reference Guide for Ontario – A2.2
B3. Complete and create documents
Competency B: Communicate Ideas and Information
Task Group B3: Complete and create documents
Level: 2
At this level, learners: Use layout to determine where to make entries in simple documents
Performance Descriptors
The learner:
- May draw on additional simple sources, such as a list
To complete documents, the learner:
- Uses layout to determine where to make entries
- Begins to make some inferences to decide what information is needed, where and how to enter the information
- Makes entries using a limited range of vocabulary
- Follows instructions on documents
To create documents, the learner:
- Follows conventions to display information in simple documents (e.g. use of font, colour, shading, bulleted lists)
- Sorts entries into categories
- Displays one or two categories of information organized according to content to be presented
- Identifies parts of documents using titles, row and column headings, and labels
Task Indicators
- Scope of task is clearly defined
- Involves one document up to two pages in length
- Has a simple format
- Requires multiple entries
- May contain entry fields that are not clearly labeled
- May include unfamiliar elements (e.g. vocabulary, context, topic)
- Documents at this level may require entering a paragraph or more of text
Examples:
- Forms
- Tables
- Hand-drawn maps
- Floor plans
ESKARGO:
Embedded Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes Reference Guide for Ontario – B3.2
C3. Use measures
Competency C: Understand and Use Numbers
Task Group C3: Use measures
Level: 3
At this level, learners: Use measures to make multi-step calculations; use specialized measuring tools
Performance Descriptors
The learner:
- Calculates using numbers expressed as whole numbers, fractions, decimals, percentages, and integers
- Calculates the radius, diameter, and circumference of circles
- Understands and uses properties of angles and triangles to solve problems
- Understands and uses formulas for finding the perimeter, area, and volume of non-rectangular, composite shapes
- Manages unfamiliar elements (e.g. context, content) to complete tasks
- Makes estimates involving many factors where precision is required
- Interprets and represents measurements taken with specialized tools (e.g. callipers, multimeters)
- Chooses and performs required operations; makes inferences to identify required operations
- Selects appropriate steps to solutions from among options
- Identifies a variety of ways to complete tasks
- Interprets, represents, and converts measures using whole numbers, decimals, percentages, ratios, and fractions
- Organizes and displays numerical information (e.g. graphs, tables)
- Uses strategies to check accuracy (e.g. estimating, using a calculator, repeating a calculation, using the reverse operation)
Task Descriptors
- Scope of task may not be clearly defined
- May include unfamiliar elements (e.g. context, content)
- Requires multi-step calculations where one step builds on the previous step
- Requires the use of rates or common formulas or both
- May require converting measurements to make calculations
- May involve documents (e.g. rate tables, scale drawings)
- May require converting between whole numbers, decimals, fractions, ratios, and percentages
- May require converting between measurement systems or between units in one system
ESKARGO:
Embedded Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes Reference Guide for Ontario – C3.3