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Curricular Competency Sharing
  • Decide on how and with whom to share or promote their product or service, their creativity, and, if applicable, their intellectual property
  • Critically reflect on their design thinking and processes, and identify new design goals
  • Assess their ability to work effectively, both individually and collaboratively
Tourism 11 Applied Design
Keyword: product or service Elaboration: for example, a physical product, process, system, service, activity, or environment
Keyword: intellectual property Elaboration: creations of the intellect such as works of art, inventions, discoveries, design ideas to which one has the legal rights of ownership
Curricular Competency Making
  • Identify tools, technologies, materials, processes, and time needed for development and implementation
  • Use project management processes when working individually or collaboratively to coordinate processes
  • Share progress to increase opportunities for feedback, collaboration, and, if applicable, marketing
Tourism 11 Applied Design
Keyword: project management processes Elaboration: setting goals, planning, organizing, constructing, monitoring, and leading during execution
Keyword: Share Elaboration: may include showing to others or use by others, giving away, or marketing and selling
Curricular Competency Testing
  • Identify and obtain critical feedback from multiple sources, both initially and over time
  • Based on feedback received and evaluated, make changes to product and/or service plan or processes as needed
Tourism 11 Applied Design
Keyword: sources Elaboration: may include peers; consumers; First Nations, Métis, or Inuit community experts; other experts and professionals both online and offline
Curricular Competency Prototyping          
  • Identify and use a variety of sources of inspiration and information
  • Compare, select, and employ techniques that facilitate a given task or process
  • Develop a product plan and/or service plan that includes key stages and resources
Tourism 11 Applied Design
Keyword: sources of inspiration Elaboration: may include personal experiences; First Peoples perspectives and knowledge; the natural environment and places, including the land, its natural resources, and analogous settings; people, including consumers, experts, and thought leaders
Keyword: information Elaboration: may include professionals; First Nations, Métis, or Inuit community experts; secondary sources; collective pools of knowledge in communities and collaborative atmospheres both online and offline
Curricular Competency Ideating
  • Identify gaps to explore in the tourism industry
  • Generate ideas and enhance others’ ideas to create possibilities
  • Critically analyze how competing social, ethical, and community factors may impact design
  • Screen ideas against criteria and constraints, and prioritize them for prototyping
  • Collaborate with potential consumers throughout the design process when possible
Tourism 11 Applied Design
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Curricular Competency Defining
  • Establish a point of view for a chosen design opportunity
  • Identify potential consumers, intended impact, and possible unintended negative consequences for a chosen tourism design opportunity
  • Identify criteria for success, constraints, and possible unintended negative consequences
Tourism 11 Applied Design
Keyword: constraints Elaboration: limiting factors, such as consumer requirements and wishes, expense, environmental impact, copyright
Curricular Competency Understanding context
  • Engage in consumer-centred research and empathetic observation
Tourism 11 Applied Design
Keyword: consumer-centred research Elaboration: research done directly with potential consumers 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 Decision making in a democratic system of government is influenced by the distribution of political and social power. Political Studies 12 No CCG
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Big Ideas Political institutions and ideology shape both the exercise of power and the nature of political outcomes. Political Studies 12 No CCG
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Big Ideas Understanding how political decisions are made is critical to being an informed and engaged citizen. Political Studies 12 No CCG
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Content issues in local, regional, national, and international politics Political Studies 12 No CCG
Keyword: issues in local, regional, national, and international politics Elaboration: Sample topics: economic developmentsustainabilityconflict resolution
Content scope and characteristics of the international system Political Studies 12 No CCG
Keyword: scope and characteristics of the international system Elaboration: Sample topics:sovereign statesintergovernmental organizations:United NationsNATOEUnon-governmental organizationssocial movementsmultinational corporationsinternational lawterrorismSample activities:Hold a model United Nations meeting.Simulate the meeting of another global organization.
Content current and future public policy Political Studies 12 No CCG
Keyword: current and future public policy Elaboration: Key question: When are governments proactive in the creation of policy and when are they reactive to the needs and demands of the population?Sample Activity:Simulate the policy-making process on a current issue that involves the articulation of stakeholder perspectives (e.g., parliamentary committee stage, local community engagement process).
Content political power in democratic and non-democratic societies Political Studies 12 No CCG
Keyword: political power in democratic and non-democratic societies Elaboration: Sample topic:theories of power:power over (power to compel, direct, or dictate) versus power to (power to influence, enable, or empower)Sample activities:Identify and assess the leading factors empowering certain groups in society while disempowering others.Analyze the circumstances in which political power shifts from one group (or amalgam of groups) to another.
Content methods used by media, governments, or political groups to influence public opinion Political Studies 12 No CCG
Keyword: methods used by media, governments, or political groups to influence public opinion Elaboration: Sample topics:lobbyingmedia campaignspropagandaawareness or information campaignspublic consultationSample activity:Prepare a case study of the influence of media, government, or political groups in shaping public perception of an issue.

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