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Curricular Competency Develop competency and proficiency in skills at various levels involving manual dexterity and woodworking techniques Woodwork 11 Applied Skills
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Curricular Competency Identify and assess the skills needed for design interests, individually or collaboratively, and develop specific plans to learn or refine them over time Woodwork 11 Applied Skills
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Curricular Competency Apply safety procedures for themselves, co-workers, and users in both physical and digital environments Woodwork 11 Applied Skills
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Curricular Competency Sharing
  • Determine how and with whom to share product and processes for feedback
  • Share the product to evaluate its success
  • Critically reflect on their design thinking and processes, and identify new design goals
  • Identify and analyze new design possibilities, including how they or others might build on their concept
 Woodwork 11 Applied Design
Keyword: share Elaboration: may include showing to others, use by others, giving away, or marketing and selling
Curricular Competency Making
  • Identify appropriate tools, technologies, materials, processes, cost implications, and time needed for production
  • Create design, incorporating feedback from self, others, and testing prototypes
  • Use materials in ways that minimize waste
 Woodwork 11 Applied Design
Keyword: technologies Elaboration: tools that extend human capabilities
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
 Woodwork 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
Curricular Competency Prototyping
  • Identify and apply sources of inspiration
  • Choose a form for prototyping and develop a plan that includes key stages and resources
  • Analyze the design for life cycle and evaluate its impacts
  • Visualize and construct prototypes, making changes to tools, materials, and procedures as needed
  • Record iterations of prototyping
 Woodwork 11 Applied Design
Keyword: sources of inspiration Elaboration: may include personal experiences, First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, the natural environment, places, cultural influences, social media, and professionals
Keyword: plan Elaboration: for example, pictorial drawings, sketches, flow charts
Keyword: impacts Elaboration: including the social and environmental impacts of extraction and transportation of raw materials; manufacturing, packaging, 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
  • Generate ideas and add to others’ ideas to create possibilities, and prioritize them for prototyping
  • Critically analyze how competing social, ethical, and sustainability considerations impact design
  • Choose an idea to pursue based on success criteria and maintain an open mind about potentially viable ideas
 Woodwork 11 Applied Design
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Curricular Competency Defining
  • Establish a point of view for a chosen design opportunity
  • Identify potential users, intended impact, 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
 Woodwork 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
 Woodwork 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 be adapted for specific purposes. Robotics 11 No CCG
Keyword: technologies Elaboration: tools that extend human capabilities
Big Ideas Personal design interests require the evaluation and refinement of skills. Robotics 11 No CCG
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Big Ideas Design for the life cycle includes consideration of social and environmental impacts. Robotics 11 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
Keyword: environmental impacts Elaboration: including manufacturing, packaging, disposal, and recycling considerations
Content design for the life cycle Robotics 11 No CCG
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Content programming related to microcontrollers Robotics 11 No CCG
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