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Grade
Curricular Competency Apply safety procedures for themselves, co-workers, and users in both physical and digital environments Woodwork 12 Applied Skills
Keyword: Elaboration:
Curricular Competency Sharing
  • Decide how and with whom to share or promote design, creativity, and processes
  • Share the product with users and critically 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 12 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
  • Create design, incorporating feedback from self, others, and testing prototypes
  • Use materials in ways that minimize waste
 Woodwork 12 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
  • Evaluate design according to critiques, testing results, and success criteria to make changes
 Woodwork 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
Curricular Competency Prototyping
  • Identify, critique, and use a variety of sources of inspiration
  • 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
 Woodwork 12 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: 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
  • Critically analyze how competing social, ethical, and sustainability considerations impact design
  • Generate ideas and add to others’ ideas to create possibilities, and prioritize them for prototyping
  • Evaluate suitability of possibilities according to success criteria and constraints
  • Work with users throughout the design process
 Woodwork 12 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 develop criteria for success
  • Determine whether activity is collaborative or self-directed
 Woodwork 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
 Woodwork 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. Engine and Drivetrain 12 No CCG
Keyword: technologies Elaboration: tools that extend human capabilities
Big Ideas Personal service and maintenance interests require the evaluation and refinement of skills. Engine and Drivetrain 12 No CCG
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Big Ideas Vehicle operation, service, and maintenance include consideration of social and environmental impacts. Engine and Drivetrain 12 No CCG
Keyword: social and environmental impacts Elaboration: including operator and public safety; emissions and effects on the environment; manufacturing, packaging, disposal, and recycling considerations related to vehicle parts and products
Content interpersonal skills for interacting with clients and customers Engine and Drivetrain 12 No CCG
Keyword: interpersonal skills Elaboration: for example, professional communications, active listening to identify potential problems, courtesies
Content career options and opportunities in engine design and repair Engine and Drivetrain 12 No CCG
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Content design for the life cycle Engine and Drivetrain 12 No CCG
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Content hybrid and alternative fuel vehicles Engine and Drivetrain 12 No CCG
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