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Demonstrate an awareness of precautionary and emergency safety procedures in both physical and digital environments

 Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 7 Applied Skills
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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
 Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 7 Applied Design
Keyword: share Elaboration:  may include showing to others, use by others, giving away, or marketing and selling
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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
 Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 7 Applied Design
Keyword: technologies Elaboration:  things that extend human capabilities
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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
 Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 7 Applied Design
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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
 Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 7 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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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
 Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 7 Applied Design
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Defining

  • Choose a design opportunity
  • Identify key features or potential users and their requirements
  • Identify criteria for success and any constraints
 Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 7 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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Understanding context

  • Empathize with potential users to find issues and uncover needs and potential design opportunities
 Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 7 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
Big Ideas Complex tasks may require multiple tools and technologies. Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 6 No CCG
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Big Ideas Complex tasks require the acquisition of additional skills. Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 6 No CCG
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Big Ideas Design can be responsive to identified needs. Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 6 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
 Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 6 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
Content Textiles
  • range of uses of textiles
  • variety of textile materials
  • hand construction techniques for producing and/or repairing textile items
  • consumer concerns that influence textile choices, including availability, cost, function (e.g., waterproof), and textile care
 Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 6 No CCG
Keyword: uses Elaboration: construction (e.g., sails at Canada Place), automotive, apparel, function (e.g., fire blanket), ceremonial (e.g., regalia)
Keyword: materials Elaboration: for example, leather, cedar, wool, cotton, felt, embroidery thread, yarn, grasses and reeds, pine needles, sinew, plastic, used items and fabrics (e.g., food wrappers, old clothing)
Keyword: hand construction techniques Elaboration: for example, hand sewing, knitting (needles, arm, spool), crocheting, weaving, darning, up-cycling (e.g., turning an underused item into something else), embellishing existing items
Content Robotics
  • a robot is a machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically
  • uses of robotics
  • main components of robots: sensors, control systems, and effectors
  • various ways that objects can move
  • programming and logic for robotics components
  • various platforms for robotics
 Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 6 No CCG
Keyword: sensors Elaboration: “sense” — the parts of the robot that allow it to gather information about its environment that guides its behaviour
Keyword: control systems Elaboration: “think” — the part of the robot that determines the robot’s behaviour
Keyword: effectors Elaboration: “act” — the parts of the robot that do the work
Keyword: ways Elaboration: straight line, back-and-forth, round-and-round, zigzag, fast and slow, fixed distances in set patterns
Keyword: platforms Elaboration: for example, VEX IQ, LEGO Mindstorms/NXT, Cubelets 
Content Power Technology
  • power is the rate at which energy is transformed
  • forms of energy
  • energy is conserved
  • devices that transform energy
 Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 6 No CCG
Keyword: forms of energy Elaboration: sound, thermal, elastic, nuclear, chemical, magnetic, mechanical, gravitational, and electrical
Keyword: conserved Elaboration: the law of conservation of energy — energy cannot be created or destroyed but can be changed
Keyword: transform energy Elaboration: for example, electrical to mechanical, elastic to mechanical, chemical to electrical, electrical to light

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