| Curricular Competency |
Derive meaning in speech and a variety of other texts and contexts |
German 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: texts |
Elaboration: “Text” is a generic term referring to all forms of oral, written, visual, and digital communications. Oral, written, and visual elements can also be combined (e.g., in dramatic presentations, graphic novels, films, web pages, advertisements). |
| Keyword: contexts |
Elaboration: e.g., differing in terms of audience, purpose, setting, formality/informality |
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| Curricular Competency |
Demonstrate degrees of formality in speech and writing to reflect different purposes |
German 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: purposes |
Elaboration: e.g., to convince, inform, entertain |
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| Big Ideas |
Complex tasks require different technologies and tools at different stages. |
Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 9 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
Complex tasks require the sequencing of skills. |
Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 9 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
Social, ethical, and sustainability considerations impact design. |
Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 9 |
No CCG |
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| Content |
Woodwork- importance of woodwork in historical and cultural contexts, locally and throughout Canada
- identification, characteristics, properties, and uses of wood from various tree species
- techniques for adjusting plans and drawings
- woodworking techniques and traditional and non-traditional joinery using a variety of tools and equipment, including stationary power equipment
- the relationship between First Peoples culturally modified trees and the sustainable use of wood
- issues in the sustainable use of wood
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Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 9 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: techniques |
Elaboration: for example, shaping, laminating, turning, abrasives, adhesives, finishing |
| Keyword: traditional |
Elaboration: for example, box joint, splined mitre, lapped joint |
| Keyword: non-traditional |
Elaboration: for example, biscuits, brads |
| Keyword: stationary power equipment |
Elaboration: for example, jointer, planer, lathe, router table, table saw, chop saw, band saw, thickness sander, disc/belt sander, spindle sander, mortise machine, drill press, scroll saw |
| Keyword: issues |
Elaboration: rate of harvest; effects of logging and replanting on ecosystems |
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| Content |
Textiles- natural and manufactured fibres, including their origins, characteristics, uses, and care
- strategies for using and modifying simple patterns
- elements of design used in the design of a textile item
- social factors that influence textile choices and the impact of those choices on local communities
- role of textiles in First Peoples cultures
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Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 9 |
No CCG |
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| Content |
Power Technology- energy transmission and applications
- efficiency, including energy loss in the form of thermal energy
- thermodynamics
- types of fuels and methods of converting fuels to mechanical energy
- alternative energy sources
- small engine systems
- mechanical measurement devices
- power technology hand tools
- effects of forces on devices
- manuals as information sources
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Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 9 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: thermodynamics |
Elaboration: relationship between heat and other forms of energy |
| Keyword: small engine systems |
Elaboration: for example, ignition, fuel system, combustion cycle |
| Keyword: mechanical measurement devices |
Elaboration: for example, torque wrench, feeler gauge, telescopic, micrometer, Vernier caliper, Plastigauge |
| Keyword: hand tools |
Elaboration: for example, wrench, socket, ratchet, ignition tools, hammer, chisel, punch, extractor, HeliCoil, ring compressor/expander, honing tool, hand valve grinding tool |
| Keyword: forces |
Elaboration: for example, tension, torsion, torque, shear, bending, compression |
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| Content |
Metalwork- basic metallurgy
- range of uses of metalwork
- welding
- fabrication techniques and processes using hand tools and stationary equipment
- foundry processes, including creating patterns and moulds, and casting
- recycling and repurposing of materials
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Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 9 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: basic metallurgy |
Elaboration: identification, characteristics, and properties of different metals, and characteristics of metal in a variety of formats and gauges |
| Keyword: uses |
Elaboration: for example, art metal, jewellery, stained glass, tools, sheet metal boxes, medieval armour |
| Keyword: welding |
Elaboration: for example, arc, oxygen-acetylene, and MIG welding |
| Keyword: techniques and processes |
Elaboration: for example, plasma and gas cutting, machining (turning, milling, forming, knurling), boring |
| Keyword: hand tools |
Elaboration: for example, wrench, socket, ratchet, ignition tools, hammer, chisel, punch, extractor, HeliCoil, ring compressor/expander, honing tool, hand valve grinding tool |
| Keyword: stationary equipment |
Elaboration: for example, sandblaster, band saw, drill press, grinder, sander, buffing wheel, lathe, horizontal band saw, Beverly shear, Whitney punch, benders, hydraulic press, spincaster, forge |
| Keyword: casting |
Elaboration: for example, lost wax casting, sand casting, investment casting, spin casting |
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| Content |
Media Arts- digital and non-digital media technologies, their distinguishing characteristics and uses
- techniques for organizing ideas to structure information and story through media conventions
- media production skills
- standards-compliant technology
- ethical, moral, legal considerations and regulatory issues
- technical and symbolic elements that can be used in storytelling
- specific features and purposes of media artworks from the present and the past to explore viewpoints, including those of First Peoples
- specific purposes of media use in the social advocacy of First Peoples in Canada
- influences of digital media in society
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Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 9 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: digital and non-digital |
Elaboration: for example video production, layout and design, graphics and images, photography (digital and traditional), new emerging media processes (performance art, collaborative work, sound art, network art, kinetic art, biotechnical art, robotic art, space art) |
| Keyword: conventions |
Elaboration: traditional or culturally accepted ways of doing things based on audience expectations. Each media form has hundreds of conventions that have been built up over time and are widely accepted by audiences. |
| Keyword: media production skills |
Elaboration: editing and publishing to shape the technical and symbolic elements of images, sounds, and text |
| Keyword: standards-compliant technology |
Elaboration: layout conventions, mark-up language, current web standards, or other digital media compliance requirements ethical, moral, legal considerations and regulatory issues: for example, in relation to duplication, copyright, appropriation, and ownership of rights |
| Keyword: ethical, moral, legal considerations and regulatory issues |
Elaboration: for example, in relation to duplication, copyright, appropriation, and ownership of rights |
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| Content |
Information and Communications Technologies- text-based coding
- binary representation of various data types, including text, sound, pictures, video
- drag-and-drop mobile development
- programming modular components
- development and collaboration in a cloud-based environment
- design and function of networking hardware and topology, including wired and wireless network router types, switches, hubs, wireless transfer systems, and client-server relationships
- functions of operating systems, including mobile, open source, and proprietary systems
- current and future impacts of evolving web standards and cloud-based technologies
- design for the web
- strategies for curating and managing personal digital content, including management, personalization, organization, maintenance, contribution, creation, and publishing of digital content
- relationships between technology and social change
- strategies to manage and maintain personal learning networks, including content consumption and creation
- keyboarding techniques
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Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 9 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: text-based coding |
Elaboration: HTML, CSS, JavaScript |
| Keyword: drag-and-drop mobile development |
Elaboration: for example, Vizwik |
| Keyword: modular components |
Elaboration: for example, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, LEGO Mindstorms |
| Keyword: cloud-based environment |
Elaboration: for example, Cloud 9, GitHub |
| Keyword: wireless transfer systems |
Elaboration: for example, NFID, Bluetooth, mobile payments |
| Keyword: impacts |
Elaboration: potential to support collaboration, sharing, and communication; data storage and privacy |
| Keyword: design for the web |
Elaboration: digital creation and manipulation of videos and images for a web-based purpose |
| Keyword: relationships |
Elaboration: for example, local and global impacts of evolving communication and mobile devices, socio-economic digital divide, technology and gender, social media and social movements, social media and politics, inequality of access, technology and democracy, information as a commodity |
| Keyword: personal learning networks |
Elaboration: personalized digital instructional tools to share and authenticate learning |
| Keyword: content consumption and creation |
Elaboration: web forums, tutorials, videos, digital resources, listservs, global communities, group communication and etiquette, online learning, MOOCS, open courseware, broadcasting |
| Keyword: keyboarding techniques |
Elaboration: for example, physical hand and foot placement, posture, development of touch typing skills, use of “home row” ASDFJKL techniques |
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| Content |
Food Studies- pathogenic microbes associated with food-borne illnesses
- components of food preparation, including use and adaptations of ingredients, techniques, and equipment
- health, economic, and environmental factors that influence availability and choice of food in personal, local, and global contexts
- ethical issues related to food systems
- First Peoples traditional food use, including ingredients, harvesting/gathering, storage, preparation, and preservation
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Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 9 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: pathogenic microbes |
Elaboration: for example, salmonella, E. coli 0157:H7, staphylococcus |
| Keyword: factors |
Elaboration: for example, global food systems, balanced eating/nutrition, food waste, food marketing, food trends, ethics |
| Keyword: ethical issues |
Elaboration: for example, environment, conditions, rights of workers and animals |
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| Content |
Entrepreneurship and Marketing- risks and benefits of entrepreneurship
- the role of social entrepreneurship in First Nations communities
- ways of decreasing production costs through training and technological advancement
- flow of goods and services from producers to consumers
- identification of a good or service that ensures brand recognition
- marketing strategies using the 4 Ps: product, price, promotion, and placement
- market segmentation by demographic, geographic, psychographic, and purchasing pattern
- evolving consumer needs and wants
- role of online technologies in expanding access to goods and services
- sources of financing for a new venture or start-up business
- measurement of financial success and failure
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Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 9 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: identification |
Elaboration: for example, business name, slogan, logo |
| Keyword: demographic |
Elaboration: age, gender, occupation, and education of customers |
| Keyword: geographic |
Elaboration: size and location of a market area |
| Keyword: psychographic |
Elaboration: general personality and lifestyle preferences of a customer base |
| Keyword: purchasing pattern |
Elaboration: buying behaviour of customers |
| Keyword: sources of financing |
Elaboration: for example, banks, private lending firms, crowdfunding, government grants |
| Keyword: measurement |
Elaboration: profit, loss, asset, liability; financial documents to represent health of a business |
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| Content |
Electronics and Robotics- uses of electronics and robotics
- components of an electric circuit
- ways in which various electrical components affect the path of electricity
- Ohm’s law
- platforms for PCB (printed circuit board) production
- basic robot behaviours using input/output devices, movement- and sensor-based responses, and microcontrollers
- mechanical devices for the transfer of mechanical energy
- mechanical advantage and power efficiency, including friction, force, and torque
- robotics coding
- various platforms for robotics programming
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Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 9 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: components |
Elaboration: power source, conductor, load |
| Keyword: electrical components |
Elaboration: for example, diodes, LEDs, resistors, capacitors, transistors, ICs (integrated circuits), SCRs (silicon controlled rectifiers), regulators |
| Keyword: Ohm’s law |
Elaboration: describes how voltage, current, and resistance are related: V=IR |
| Keyword: platforms |
Elaboration: for example, VEX, VEX IQ, LEGO Mindstorms/NXT, Arduino, EasyC, RobotC, Scratch for Arduino |
| Keyword: input/output devices |
Elaboration: for example, gyro sensors, bump, motion, sound, light, infrared |
| Keyword: mechanical devices |
Elaboration: for example, gears, belts, pulleys, chains, sprockets, linear actuators, pneumatics, bearings, slides |
| Keyword: coding |
Elaboration: for example, G-code, C++, Sketch |
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| Content |
Drafting- drafting technique, including dimensioning and standards
- drafting styles, including perspective, mechanical, and architectural
- CADD/CAM, CNC and 3D printing
- function of models
- basic code
- digital output devices
- virtual creation using CAD/CAM
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Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 9 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: CADD |
Elaboration: computer-aided drafting and design |
| Keyword: CAM |
Elaboration: computer-aided manufacturing |
| Keyword: CNC |
Elaboration: computer numerical control |
| Keyword: basic |
Elaboration: for example, for the purpose of editing to send to output devices |
| Keyword: output devices |
Elaboration: for example, plotters, vinyl cutters, and 3D printers; CNC machines |
| Keyword: virtual creation |
Elaboration: for example, layout and planning of a project, creating plans for a model |
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