Technology and the Skilled Trades (TAS 2O)
These resources have been funded by the Ontario Ministry of Education.
Help your students go deeper in their exploration of Technology and the Skilled Trades using TAS2O resources 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 options are available, from complete course plans to project ideas to individual lessons, allowing you to select those that are the best fit for your classroom.
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 10 Technology and Skilled Trades. Material for the full course is provided, broken into four cycles: Technology, Society and Sustainability; Design Thinking, Problem Solving and Planning; Technical Skills, Tools and Fabrication; Final Design Project and Communication. Each cycle includes a summary of its relevance to expectations, as well as project ideas and a review of how it can be incorporated as part specific Broad-Based Technology (BBT) courses.
This project plan, developed in partnership with OCTE, can be used in conjunction with the related course plan or as part of your own classroom approach. Each of the 12 projects is grounded in the Engineering Design Process, providing practical, project-based activities that can be applied 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 TAS2O 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 need throughout the course. These include working with fractions, different systems of measure (metric and imperial) and converting between systems.
SUBJECT: Technology and the Skilled Trades
STRAND: Design Processes and Related Skills
EXPECTATIONS: A1.2, A2.1, A2.4, A2.7, A4.3
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, A2.6, A3.1, A3.3, A3.4, A3.4, B1.1
Students will gain an understanding of the importance of health and safety procedures in the workplace, allowing them to apply these 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, A4.6, B3.4
Students will gain a general understanding of how to effectively ideate while establishing and justifying evaluation criteria and identifying constraints to narrow down their ideas. Students will also learn about project management and the importance of purposeful planning when completing projects.
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 have an opportunity to examine the sustainability of materials they use in the technology classroom and everyday life through research. Using a life cycle assessment (LCA) template, students will compare similar products, use research to inform their choice of the more sustainable item and suggest how the product could evolve to become more sustainable.
SUBJECT: Technology and the Skilled Trades
STRAND: Design Processes and Related Skills; Technological Development, Impacts, and Careers
EXPECTATIONS: A2.3, B1, B1.2, B2.1, B2.2, B2.3
Looking for tips on using these TAS2O lesson plans? Check out our video Implementation Guide!
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