Content Area: Technological Literacy

 

Index: 8.1B Grade 8 CPI 6

 

Standard:8.1 - Computer and Information Literacy

 

Strand: B - Application of Productivity Tools

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 6 - The student choose appropriate tools and information resources to

support research and solve real world problems, including but not limited to:

·        On-line resources and databases

·        Search engines and subject directories

 

Grade: 8

 

Sample Activities:

 

·       A school wide unity day to celebrate diversity is being planned by the school.

As part of the celebration, a mini-Olympics will be held. A plan needs to be

developed and implemented to include opening exercises, main events, and

closing ceremonies. A small budget has been allocated but will need to be

supplemented.
 

·       Statistics indicate that drugs have an impact on worker productivity and safety.

Develop a program or campaign focusing on the reduction of substance abuse in

the community and in the workplace.

 

·       Although New Jersey is well known as the Garden State, it certainly could be

recognized as the Invention State. We now live in an increasing complex "global society"

with demands for increased invention, design, and manufacturing to make people's lives

and work more productive while meeting personal and family needs.

 

·       Student will research using a computer and the Internet, the nutritional values

of a number of possible snack foods (chips, raisins, trail mix, candy bars, peanuts,

dried apricots, frozen fruit bars, yogurt, etc.) to determine what kinds of snacks

should be offered in the school snack machine. Investigate state laws that apply

to the use of machines for distribution of food products. Are there restrictions

on the types of foods and length of time food can be stored in the machines?

Smart Snacks:

            http://www.mckinley.uiuc.edu/health-info/nutrit/hlthdiet/smart_snacks.html
Nutrition:

        http://www.bucknell.edu/About_Bucknell/Offices_Resources/
The Grazing of America: A Guide to Healthy Snacking -

        http://www.hoptechno.com/book5.htm

 

·       Student Government – Catastrophe Relief Plan – Students will compare

and contrast the relief efforts, the expenditures, the results of a number of

charity/relief groups in order to determine which group the school would

contribute.
Guidestar: The National Database of Non-profit Organizations -

                http://www.guidestar.org/
Charity Navigator -

                http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm/bay/content.view/catid/2/cpid/35.htm

 

·       Resources

Bird  Rap: http://cnets.iste.org/students/pf/pf_bird_rap.html