Grade 9 Technology and Skilled Trades
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Units of Study
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Drawing Fundamentals: Creative Communications Skills
This unit will be ongoing for the entire semester, becoming the foundational piece to support all projects and learning. We will build our repertoire of drawing communications skills, by learning to sketch simple lines and shapes, through daily practice, leading us to the point where we can create concept sketches for logo designs, thumbnail sketch a product ideas, design sketching that supports the career paths noted below.
Career Paths: Architect, Artists, Interior Designer, Industrial Designer, Animator, Game Designer, Furniture Designer, Custom Woodworking & Fabrication, and many other Trades related fields.
Graphic Design: Logo Design
In this unit we will create our own identity logo designs, working with our initials, and our first name as a possible Identity Logo Design. This unit will also introduce students to Layout Designs for presentation purposes, while incorporating the Principles & Elements of Design, as well as learning about file naming, saving, and creating folder structures on our computers and our respective Cloud Drives.
Career Paths: Graphic Designer, Media Design, Architect, Interior Designer, Industrial Designer, Animator, Game Designer, Advertising & Communications.
Product Design: Water Bottle Design
Within this unit of study, students will be introduced to world of Creativity through the lens of an Industrial Designer, working on research, concept generation, ideation, 3D modelling, rendering and animating our proposed product.
Career Paths: Industrial Designer, Architect, Artists, Interior Designer, Sculptor, Animator, Game Designer, Furniture Designer, Custom Woodworking & Fabrication, and many other Trades related fields.
This unit will be ongoing for the entire semester, becoming the foundational piece to support all projects and learning. We will build our repertoire of drawing communications skills, by learning to sketch simple lines and shapes, through daily practice, leading us to the point where we can create concept sketches for logo designs, thumbnail sketch a product ideas, design sketching that supports the career paths noted below.
Career Paths: Architect, Artists, Interior Designer, Industrial Designer, Animator, Game Designer, Furniture Designer, Custom Woodworking & Fabrication, and many other Trades related fields.
Graphic Design: Logo Design
In this unit we will create our own identity logo designs, working with our initials, and our first name as a possible Identity Logo Design. This unit will also introduce students to Layout Designs for presentation purposes, while incorporating the Principles & Elements of Design, as well as learning about file naming, saving, and creating folder structures on our computers and our respective Cloud Drives.
Career Paths: Graphic Designer, Media Design, Architect, Interior Designer, Industrial Designer, Animator, Game Designer, Advertising & Communications.
Product Design: Water Bottle Design
Within this unit of study, students will be introduced to world of Creativity through the lens of an Industrial Designer, working on research, concept generation, ideation, 3D modelling, rendering and animating our proposed product.
Career Paths: Industrial Designer, Architect, Artists, Interior Designer, Sculptor, Animator, Game Designer, Furniture Designer, Custom Woodworking & Fabrication, and many other Trades related fields.
