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Northwest Territories · Grade 8

Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies

Modules chosen by the school, such as computational thinking, digital literacy, drafting, food studies, media arts, robotics, textiles and 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

ADApplied Design

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

ASApplied Skills

Safe use of tools and materials; skills needed for the chosen module

ATApplied Technologies

Choosing and using tools and technologies; their impact on people and the environment