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Subject
Grade
Curricular Competency Sharing
  • Decide how and with whom to share creativity, or share and promote design and processes
  • Share the product with users to evaluate its success
  • Critically reflect on plans, products and processes, and identify new design goals
  • Identify and analyze new possibilities for plans, products and processes, including how they or others might build on them
Engineering 11 Applied Design
Keyword: share Elaboration: may include showing to others or use by others, giving away, or marketing and selling
Curricular Competency Making
  • Identify appropriate tools, technologies, materials, processes, cost implications, and time needed
  • Create design, incorporating feedback from self, others, and results from testing of the prototype
  • Use materials in ways that minimize waste
Engineering 11 Applied Design
Keyword: Elaboration:
Curricular Competency Testing
  • Identify and communicate with sources of feedback
  • Develop an appropriate test of the prototype, conduct the test, and collect and compile data
  • Apply information from critiques, testing results, and success criteria to make changes
Engineering 11 Applied Design
Keyword: sources of feedback Elaboration: may include peers; users; First Nations, Métis, or Inuit community experts; other experts and professionals both online and offline
Keyword: appropriate test Elaboration: includes evaluating the degree of authenticity required for the setting of the test, deciding on an appropriate type and number of trials, and collecting and compiling data
Curricular Competency Prototyping
  • Choose a form for prototyping and develop a plan that includes key stages and resources
  • Analyze the design for the life cycle and evaluate its impacts
  • Visualize and construct prototypes, making changes to tools, materials, and procedures as needed
  • Record iterations of prototyping
Engineering 11 Applied Design
Keyword: plan Elaboration: for example, pictorial drawings, sketches, flow charts
Keyword: impacts Elaboration: including social and environmental impacts of extraction and transportation of raw materials; manufacturing, packaging, and transportation to markets; servicing or providing replacement parts; expected usable lifetime; and reuse or recycling of component materials
Keyword: iterations Elaboration: repetitions of a process with the aim of approaching a desired result
Curricular Competency Ideating
  • Critically analyze how competing social, ethical, and sustainability considerations impact creation and development of solutions
  • Generate ideas to create a range of possibilities and add to others’ ideas in ways that create additional possibilities
  • Choose an idea to pursue based on success criteria and maintain an open mind about potentially viable ideas
Engineering 11 Applied Design
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Curricular Competency Defining
  • Establish a point of view for a chosen design opportunity
  • Identify potential users, intended impacts, and possible unintended negative consequences
  • Make decisions about premises and constraints that define the design space, and identify criteria for success
  • Determine whether activity is collaborative or self-directed
Engineering 11 Applied Design
Keyword: constraints Elaboration: limiting factors, such as task or user requirements, materials, expense, environmental impact
Curricular Competency Understanding context
  • Engage in a period of user-centred research and empathetic observation to understand design opportunities
Engineering 11 Applied Design
Keyword: user-centred research Elaboration: research done directly with potential users to understand how they do things and why, their physical and emotional needs, how they think about the world, and what is meaningful to them
Keyword: empathetic observation Elaboration: aimed at understanding the values and beliefs of other cultures and the diverse motivations and needs of different people may be informed by experiences of people involved; traditional cultural knowledge and approaches; First Peoples worldviews, perspectives, knowledge, and practices; places, including the land and its natural resources and analogous settings; experts and thought leaders
Big Ideas Tools and technologies can influence communications and relationships. Tourism 11 No CCG
Keyword: technologies Elaboration: tools that extend human capabilities
Big Ideas Personal design choices require the evaluation and refinement of skills. Tourism 11 No CCG
Keyword: Elaboration:
Big Ideas Services and products can be designed through consultation and collaboration. Tourism 11 No CCG
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Content hospitality and communication skills to interact effectively with local and international tourists Tourism 11 No CCG
Keyword: interact effectively Elaboration: for example, welcoming discourse or body language; ways to communicate with people who may have limited local language skills/proficiency or diverse cultural heritages
Content cultural sensitivity and etiquette, including ethics of cultural appropriation Tourism 11 No CCG
Keyword: cultural appropriation Elaboration: using or sharing a cultural motif, theme, “voice,” image, knowledge, story, song, or drama without permission or appropriate context or in a way that may misrepresent the real experience of the people from whose culture it is drawn
Content First Peoples tourism and the local/provincial market and economy Tourism 11 No CCG
Keyword: First Peoples tourism Elaboration: tourism businesses that are majority-owned and operated by First Nations, Métis, or Inuit and that demonstrate a connection and responsibility to the local First Peoples community and traditional territory where the operation resides
Content marketing through evolving industry technologies Tourism 11 No CCG
Keyword: industry technologies Elaboration: for example, point-of-sale (POS) systems, property management systems (PMS), customer relationship management (CRM) systems, social media, Internet, apps
Content marketing considerations and strategies for industry management Tourism 11 No CCG
Keyword: marketing considerations Elaboration: for example:for businesses, public service agencies, hospitalityexperiential tourism or sightseeingadvertising, public relations/media, personal selling, direct marketing, sales promotionunique characteristics of Canadian and BC history, physical geography, arts

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