COURSE CODE: IB4585

IB Design Technology I

SCED Code: 03206
Virginia Extended Description: I
Suggested Grade Level: 9, 10, 11
Duration: 36 Weeks
Hours: 140
Credits: 1
Prerequisite: None
OSHA Compliance Required?: No
CTSO: TSA
Non-Traditional?: F

Design and Technology is a recognized International Baccalaureate course. This course is designed to promote an understanding and appreciation of the technology design process as a cycle. As students work through the technology course and related project, which unifies all aspects of IB design technology, they analyze and evaluate the impact and ethical considerations arising from technology. The course focuses on how design is used to produce outcomes. Contextual instruction and student participation in co-curricular career and technical student organization (CTSO) activities will develop leadership, interpersonal, and career skills. High-quality work-based learning (HQWBL) will provide experiential learning opportunities related to students' career goals and/or interests, integrated with instruction, and performed in partnership with local businesses and organizations.

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Course Sequences

A combination of this course and those below, equivalent to two 36-week courses, is a concentration sequence. Students wishing to complete a specialization may take additional courses based on their career pathways. A program completer is a student who has met the requirements for a CTE concentration sequence and all other requirements for high school graduation or an approved alternative education program.

Career Clusters

Pathway Occupation
Engineering & Technology
  • Aerospace Engineers
  • Agricultural Engineers
  • Architects, Except Landscape and Naval
  • Chemical Engineers
  • Civil Engineers
  • Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians
  • Commercial and Industrial Designers
  • Computer Hardware Engineers
  • Computer Programmers
  • Electrical Engineers
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians
  • Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians
  • Engineers, All Other
  • Environmental Engineers
  • Industrial Engineers
  • Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians
  • Landscape Architects
  • Marine Engineers and Naval Architects
  • Materials Engineers
  • Mechanical Engineers
  • Mechanical Engineering Technologists and Technicians
  • Nuclear Engineers
  • Petroleum Engineers
  • Power Plant Operators
  • Project Management Specialists
  • Statisticians
Science & Mathematics
  • Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health
  • Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers
  • Hydrologists
  • Materials Scientists

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