APPLIED DESIGN, SKILLS, AND TECHNOLOGY CURRICULUM GRADES 6-7 CONTENT Students will experience a minimum of three modules of Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 6-7 in each of Grades 6 and 7. Schools may choose from among the modules listed below or develop new modules that use the Curricular Competencies of Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 6–7 with locally developed content. Locally developed modules can be offered in addition to, or instead of, the modules in the provincial curriculum. Entrepreneurship Computers & Digital Literacy Food Studies Media Arts Metalwork Power Technology and Marketing Communication Devices Students are expected to Students are expected to Students are expected to Students are expected Students are expected Students are expected Students are expected know the following: know the following: know the following: to know the following: to know the following: to know the following: to know the following: Digital and Internet safety Computer system Role of Basic food handling Power is the rate at media, and Characteristics and architecture, entrepreneurship and simple which energy is Digital self-image, their distinguishing uses of metals including hardware in designing and preparation transformed citizenship, characteristics and Metalworking and software, making products techniques and Forms of energy relationships, and uses techniques and network and services equipment Energy is communication Techniques for processes using infrastructure Market niche Factors in conserved Legal and ethical using images, hand toolsMetals as (local), ingredient use, Branding of considerations, Devices that sounds, and text to a non-renewable intranet/Internet, including balanced products, services, including creative transform energy communicate resource and personal eating/nutrition, institutions, or credit and information, communication places function, and copyright, and settings, ideas, and devices dietary restrictions Pricing cyberbullying story structure Strategies for Factors that product/service, Methods for Media technologies identifying and influence food including decision personal media and techniques to troubleshooting to seek profit or choices, including management capture, edit, and simple hardware cost, availability, break even Search techniques, manipulate images, and software and family and Role of basic how search results sounds, and text for problems cultural influences financial are selected and specific purposes Function of input and ranked, and criteria Influences of digital and output devices, budgeting for evaluating media for the including 3D search results purpose of printing and communication Strategies to adaptive and self-expression identify personal technologies for learning networks those with special needs Ergonomics in use of computers and computing devices Effective and efficient keyboarding techniques
APPLIED DESIGN, SKILLS, AND TECHNOLOGY CURRICULUM GRADES 6-7 CONTENT Students will experience a minimum of three modules of Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 6-7 in each of Grades 6 and 7. Schools may choose from among the modules listed below or develop new modules that use the Curricular Competencies of Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 6–7 with locally developed content. Locally developed modules can be offered in addition to, or instead of, the modules in the provincial curriculum. Computers & Communication Devices Digital Literacy Entrepreneurship and Marketing Food Studies Media Arts Metalwork Power Technology Students are expected to know the following: Computer system architecture, including hardware and software, network infrastructure (local), intranet/Internet, and personal communication devices Strategies for identifying and troubleshooting simple hardware and software problems Function of input and output devices, including 3D printing and adaptive technologies for those with special needs Ergonomics in use of computers and computing devices Effective and efficient keyboarding techniques Students are expected to know the following: Internet safety Digital self-image, citizenship, relationships, and communication Legal and ethical considerations, including creative credit and copyright, and cyberbullying Methods for personal media management Search techniques, how search results are selected and ranked, and criteria for evaluating search results Strategies to identify personal learning networks Students are expected to know the following: Role of entrepreneurship in designing and making products and services Market niche Branding of products, services, institutions, or places Pricing product/service, including decision to seek profit or break even Role of basic financial and budgeting Students are expected to know the following: Basic food handling and simple preparation techniques and equipment Factors in ingredient use, including balanced eating/nutrition, function, and dietary restrictions Factors that influence food choices, including cost, availability, and family and cultural influences Students are expected to know the following: Digital and media, and their distinguishing characteristics and uses Techniques for using images, sounds, and text to communicate information, settings, ideas, and story structure Media technologies and techniques to capture, edit, and manipulate images, sounds, and text for specific purposes Influences of digital media for the purpose of communication and self-expression Students are expected to know the following: Characteristics and uses of metals Metalworking techniques and processes using hand toolsMetals as a non-renewable resource Students are expected to know the following: Power is the rate at which energy is transformed Forms of energy Energy is conserved Devices that transform energy
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