Learning goals

Certified by Education Alliance Finland

The supported learning goals are identified by mapping the product against the selected reference curriculum and soft skills definitions most relevant for the 21st century.

• Encouraging to observe art, the environment and visual culture through multisensory activities and creating own pieces.
• Encouraging to persistent pictorial work alone and together with others.
• Encouraging to take the cultural diversity and sustainable development into account in the visual expressions.
• Guiding the student to perceive and master a whole handicraft process and its documentation.
• Guiding to design and manufacture alone or together a handicraft products, relying on their own aesthetic and technical solutions.
• Guiding to interactively evaluate, analyse, and appreciate own and others whole handicraft process.
• Inspiring student to experiment with different materials and techniques as well as practicing pictorial expression.
• Inspiring to create pictures based on examination of own living environment, different times and different cultures.
• Inspiring to critically assess people's consumption and production practices.
• Inspiring to express observations and ideas differently by means of pictorial production.
Practicing to develop models (i.e., diagram, drawing, physical replica, diorama, dramatization, or storyboard) that represent concrete events or design solutions related with Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems.
Strengthening the interest in handicrafts and inspiring inventive, experimental and local craftsmanship.
Understand that structures can be designed to serve particular functions by taking into account properties of different materials, and how materials can be shaped and used.
Define a simple design problem that can be solved through the development of an object, tool, process, or system and includes several criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
Test two different models of the same proposed object, tool, or process to determine which better meets criteria for success.
Use a model to test cause and effect relationships or interactions concerning the functioning of a natural or designed system.
Design, evaluate, and/or refine a solution to a complex real-world problem, based on scientific knowledge, student-generated sources of evidence, prioritized criteria, and tradeoff considerations.
Evaluate competing design solutions based on jointly developed and agreed-upon design criteria.
Undertake a design project, engaging in the design cycle, to construct and/or implement a solution that meets specific design criteria and constraints.
Use digital tools and/or mathematical concepts and arguments to test and compare proposed solutions to an engineering design problem.
Connecting subjects learned at school to skills needed at working life
Learning to plan and organize work processes
Practicing to work with others
Practicing to notice causal connections
Learning to build information on top of previously learned
Learning to combine information to find new innovations
Encouraging the growth of positive self-image
Developing problem solving skills
Practicing to plan and execute studies, make observations and measurements
Practicing to use imagination and to be innovative
Encouraging students to be innovative and express new ideas
Practicing creative thinking
Practicing to use arts as a way to express
Practicing to evaluate one's own learning
Practicing fine motor skills
Using technology as a part of explorative and creative process
Building common knowledge of technological solutions and their meaning in everyday life
Practicing logical reasoning to understand and interpret information in different forms
Practising to understand visual concepts and shapes and observe their qualities
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