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Curricular Competency Apply safety procedures for themselves, co-workers, and users in both physical and digital environments Robotics 11 Applied Skills
Keyword: Elaboration:
Curricular Competency Sharing
  • Determine 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
Robotics 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
Robotics 11 Applied Design
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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
  • Apply information from critiques, testing results, and success criteria to make changes
Robotics 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
Robotics 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
  • Take creative risks
  • Generate ideas and enhance others’ ideas to create a range of possibilities, and prioritize the possibilities for prototyping
  • Critically analyze how competing social, ethical, and sustainability considerations impact creation and development of solutions
  • Choose an idea to pursue based on success criteria and maintain an open mind about potentially viable ideas
Robotics 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
Robotics 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
Robotics 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 include 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. Metalwork 11 No CCG
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Big Ideas Personal design interests require the evaluation and refinement of skills. Metalwork 11 No CCG
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Big Ideas Design for the life cycle includes consideration of social and environmental impacts. Metalwork 11 No CCG
Keyword: environmental impacts Elaboration: including manufacturing, packaging, disposal, and recycling considerations
Content ethics of cultural appropriation in design process Metalwork 11 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 Metalwork 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
Content forging and foundry applications Metalwork 11 No CCG
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Content common mechanical fastening methods Metalwork 11 No CCG
Keyword: mechanical fastening methods Elaboration: for example, rivets, bolts, screws, threaded rod

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