Developing a product and selling it is an empowering and worthwhile experience.
With the new BC Curriculum, all grade 6 and 7 students will be participating in a minimum of three modules under the Applied Design, Skills and Technology curriculum. Entrepreneurship and Marketing is one of those modules. The curricular competencies state that students will:
Even if the student does not choose to lessen the environmental impact of their product, the fact that they have become meta-cognitively aware of the life cycle of their product is important. We as teachers can but ask the questions, and it is up to the students to decide on what is important to them.
With the new BC Curriculum, all grade 6 and 7 students will be participating in a minimum of three modules under the Applied Design, Skills and Technology curriculum. Entrepreneurship and Marketing is one of those modules. The curricular competencies state that students will:
- Evaluate tools and technologies that are present in their everyday lives
- Identify the impact, including unintended negative consequences, of the choices they make about technology use
- Identify how the land and natural resources influence First Peoples’ design and technologies
- Identify how technology use can differ depending on culture, economics, access to resources, and social expectations
- Identify personal, social, and environmental impacts of technology use
Even if the student does not choose to lessen the environmental impact of their product, the fact that they have become meta-cognitively aware of the life cycle of their product is important. We as teachers can but ask the questions, and it is up to the students to decide on what is important to them.