Technology and the Skilled Trades (TAS 1O)
These resources have been funded by the Ontario Ministry of Education.
Bring Technology and the Skilled Trades to life with materials developed by and for educators. Designed to engage students as they build meaningful life-long skills, these materials support teachers in realizing curriculum objectives. A variety of materials are available, from complete course plans to project ideas to individual lessons, allowing you to find the tools that fit best with your classroom approach.
Developed in partnership with the Ontario Council for Technology Education (OCTE), this course plan is designed to help you deliver a relevant and engaging experience to students in Grade 9 Technology and Skilled Trades. Material for the full course is provided, broken into four cycles: Technology, Society and Sustainability; Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Researching; Technical Skills, Tools and Fabrication; and Final Design Project and Communication. Each cycle includes a summary of its relevance to expectations, project ideas and a review of how it may be incorporated as part specific Broad-Based Technology (BBT) courses.
This project plan, developed in association with OCTE, can be used in conjunction with the Course Plan above or as part of your existing classroom approach. Each of the 12 projects is grounded in the Engineering Design Process, ensuring that students can find relevance in the projects across Broad-Based Technology (BBT) areas. Although these projects have been created with the Course Plan available above in mind, they are adaptable for use by teachers using other approaches.
STRAND A: Design Processes and Related Skills
STRAND B: Technological Development, Impacts, and Careers
EXPECTATIONS: A1, A2, A3, A4, B1, B2, B3
See how you can implement these ready-to-use course and project plans your Grade 9 and 10 TAS courses in this recorded webinar. The webinar highlights classroom-tested, curriculum-aligned undertakings that can be adapted to cover multiple broad-based technology courses to reinforce fundamentals like problem-solving, technical skills and professional communication.
The lesson plans below are designed to provide focussed content that can be used by any TAS1O teacher to supplement their classroom experiences. We encourage you to begin your exploration of these materials with the How to Use Guide.
Students will have an opportunity to apply STEM thinking concepts in the classroom by reviewing the math skills they will use throughout the course. These include working with fractions and different systems of measure (metric and imperial systems).
SUBJECT: Technology and the Skilled Trades
STRAND: Design Processes and Related Skills
EXPECTATIONS: A1.2, A1.6, A2.1, A2.7, A4
Key features of the engineering design process are explained in this lesson. Students will work through a simple example requiring criteria identification, process development, the feedback or testing process and iteration. A mini-lesson on providing and receiving feedback as part of the EDP is also included.
SUBJECT: Technology and the Skilled Trades
STRAND: Design Processes and Related Skills; Technological Development, Impacts, and Careers
EXPECTATIONS: A1.2, A1.4, A2.5, A2.6, A3.1, A3.2, A3.3, A3.4, A4.4, B1.1
Students gain an understanding of the importance of health and safety procedures in the workplace, allowing them to apply essential safety concepts when using materials, tools and equipment throughout the course.
SUBJECT: Technology and the Skilled Trades
STRAND: Design Processes and Related Skills; Technological Development, Impacts, and Careers
EXPECTATIONS: A4.1, A4.2, A4.3, A4.6, B3.4
Students will gain a general understanding of how to effectively ideate and plan, an important step in the engineering design process.
SUBJECT: Technology and the Skilled Trades
STRAND: Design Processes and Related Skills
EXPECTATIONS: A1.2, A1.3, A1.4, A1.5, A1.6, A2.1, A2.2
Students will examine the sustainability of materials they use by completing a Life Cycle Assessment.
SUBJECT: Technology and the Skilled Trades
STRAND: Design Processes and Related Skills; Technological Development, Impacts, and Careers
EXPECTATIONS: A2.3, B1.1, B1.2, B2.2, B2.3
This video highlights different careers, as well as skills required to be successful in the technical and skilled trades
SUBJECT: Technology and the Skilled Trades
STRAND: Technological Development, Impacts, and Careers
EXPECTATIONS: B3, B3.1, B3.4
Looking for tips on using these TAS1O lesson plans? Check out our video Implementation Guide!
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