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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
  • Evaluate design according to critiques, testing results, and success criteria to make changes
Remotely Operated Vehicles and Drones 12 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 an appropriate form, scale, and level of detail for prototyping, and plan procedures
  • 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
Remotely Operated Vehicles and Drones 12 Applied Design
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
  • Identify and examine gaps for potential design improvements and innovations
  • 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
  • Evaluate suitability of possibilities according to success criteria, constraints, and potential gaps, and prioritize for prototyping
  • Work with users throughout the design process
Remotely Operated Vehicles and Drones 12 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 inferences about premises and constraints that define the design space, and develop criteria for success
  • Determine whether activity is collaborative or self-directed
Remotely Operated Vehicles and Drones 12 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
Remotely Operated Vehicles and Drones 12 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 be adapted for specific purposes. Furniture and Cabinetry 12 No CCG
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Big Ideas Personal design interests require the evaluation and refinement of skills. Furniture and Cabinetry 12 No CCG
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Big Ideas Design for the life cycle includes consideration of social and environmental impacts. Furniture and Cabinetry 12 No CCG
Keyword: environmental impacts Elaboration: including manufacturing, packaging, disposal, and recycling considerations
Content interpersonal and consultation skills to interact with clients Furniture and Cabinetry 12 No CCG
Keyword: interpersonal and consultation skills Elaboration: for example, professional communications, collaboration, follow-ups, courtesies, record keeping, ways to present visuals
Content future career options and opportunities in furniture and cabinetry construction Furniture and Cabinetry 12 No CCG
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Content ethics of cultural appropriation in design process Furniture and Cabinetry 12 No CCG
Keyword: cultural appropriation Elaboration: using or sharing a cultural motif, theme, “voice,” image, knowledge, story, or practices without permission or without appropriate context or in a way that may misrepresent the real experience of the people from whose culture it is drawn
Content design for the life cycle Furniture and Cabinetry 12 No CCG
Keyword: design for the life cycle Elaboration: taking into account economic costs, and social and environmental impacts of the product, from the extraction of raw materials to eventual reuse or recycling of component materials
Content reclamation of used materials Furniture and Cabinetry 12 No CCG
Keyword: reclamation Elaboration: for example, restoration, repurposing hardware, recycling materials
Content traditional decorative techniques Furniture and Cabinetry 12 No CCG
Keyword: decorative techniques Elaboration: for example, hand-carving, stencilling, sculpting
Content preparation of materials for machining, assembly, and finishing Furniture and Cabinetry 12 No CCG
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