British Columbia · Grade 9

Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies

Schools offer the equivalent of a full-year course made of one or more modules: Drafting, Electronics and Robotics, Entrepreneurship and Marketing, Food Studies, Information and Communications Technologies, Media Arts, Metalwork, Power Technology, Textiles, Woodwork.

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

Design thinking: understanding context, defining, ideating, prototyping, testing, making and sharing

2Applied Skills

Applied skills for the chosen modules

3Applied Technologies

Choosing and using tools and technologies for the chosen modules