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British Columbia · Grade 5

Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies

In Kindergarten to Grade 5, ADST is taught through cross-curricular projects that combine design and making with content from other subjects.

Outline

Lessons for this subject are being written.

Below is how the official curriculum organizes it. Each strand will get full lessons like the ones in Grade 1 Mathematics.

Curriculum strands

1Applied Design

Gather information from users, define a design opportunity and constraints, ideate, prototype and test with repeated iteration

2Applied Skills

Use materials, tools and techniques safely; build skills needed for a design task

3Applied Technologies

Use familiar tools and choose appropriate technologies for tasks