| Curricular Competency |
Identify the personal, social, and environmental impacts, including unintended negative consequences, of the choices they make about technology use |
Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 8 |
Applied Technologies |
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| Curricular Competency |
Select, and as needed learn about, appropriate tools and technologies to extend their capability to complete a task |
Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 8 |
Applied Technologies |
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| Curricular Competency |
Identify and evaluate the skills and skill levels needed, individually or as a group, in relation to a specific task, and develop them as needed |
Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 8 |
Applied Skills |
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| Curricular Competency |
Demonstrate an awareness of precautionary and emergency safety procedures in both physical and digital environments |
Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 8 |
Applied Skills |
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| Curricular Competency |
Sharing - Decide on how and with whom to share their product
- Demonstrate their product and describe their process, using appropriate terminology and providing reasons for their selected solution and modifications
- Evaluate their product against their criteria and explain how it contributes to the individual, family, community, and/or environment
- Reflect on their design thinking and processes, and evaluate their ability to work effectively both as individuals and collaboratively in a group, including their ability to share and maintain an efficient co-operative work space
- Identify new design issues
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Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 8 |
Applied Design |
| Keyword: share |
Elaboration: may include showing to others, use by others, giving away, or marketing and selling |
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| Curricular Competency |
Making - Identify and use appropriate tools, technologies, and materials for production
- Make a plan for production that includes key stages, and carry it out, making changes as needed
- Use materials in ways that minimize waste
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Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 8 |
Applied Design |
| Keyword: technologies |
Elaboration: things that extend human capabilities |
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| Curricular Competency |
Testing - Test the first version of the product or the prototype
- Gather peer and/or user and/or expert feedback and inspiration
- Make changes, troubleshoot, and test again
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Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 8 |
Applied Design |
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| Curricular Competency |
Prototyping - Identify and use sources of information
- Develop a plan that identifies key stages and resources
- Explore and test a variety of materials for effective use
- Construct a first version of the product or a prototype, as appropriate, making changes to tools, materials, and procedures as needed
- Record iterations of prototyping
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Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 8 |
Applied Design |
| Keyword: sources of information |
Elaboration: including seeking knowledge from other people as experts (e.g., First Peoples Elders) secondary sources, and collective pools of knowledge in communities and collaborative atmospheres |
| Keyword: product |
Elaboration: for example, a physical product, a process, a system, a service, or a designed environment |
| Keyword: iterations |
Elaboration: repetitions of a process with the aim of approaching a desired result |
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| Curricular Competency |
Ideating - Generate potential ideas and add to others’ ideas
- Screen ideas against criteria and constraints
- Evaluate personal, social, and environmental impacts and ethical considerations
- Choose an idea to pursue
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Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 8 |
Applied Design |
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| Curricular Competency |
Defining - Choose a design opportunity
- Identify key features or potential users and their requirements
- Identify criteria for success and any constraints
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Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 8 |
Applied Design |
| Keyword: constraints |
Elaboration: limiting factors such as task or user requirements, materials, expense, environmental impact, issues of appropriation, and knowledge that is considered sacred |
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| Curricular Competency |
Understanding context - Empathize with potential users to find issues and uncover needs and potential design opportunities
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Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 8 |
Applied Design |
| Keyword: Empathize |
Elaboration: share the feelings and understand the needs of others to inform design |
| Keyword: users |
Elaboration: may include self, peers, younger children, family or community members, customers, plants, or animals |
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| Big Ideas |
Complex tasks may require multiple tools and technologies. |
Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 7 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
Complex tasks require the acquisition of additional skills. |
Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 7 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
Design can be responsive to identified needs. |
Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 7 |
No CCG |
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| Content |
Woodwork- ways in which wood is used in local cultural and economic contexts
- characteristics of wood as a material
- woodworking techniques and basic joinery using hand tools
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Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 7 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: woodworking techniques |
Elaboration: for example, cutting materials according to plan, layout, sanding methods, abrasive applications |
| Keyword: basic joinery |
Elaboration: for example, butt joints (with and without dowel), rabbit joints, gluing, nails and screws |
| Keyword: hand tools |
Elaboration: for example, cordless and corded drills, rotary tool, hammer, screwdriver, backsaw, coping saw, nail set, square, clamp and vise |
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