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Content Area: Technological Literacy
Index: 8.1B Grade 8 CPI 7
Standard:8.1 - Computer and Information Literacy
Strand: B - Application of Productivity Tools
Cumulative Progress Indicator: 7 - The student evaluates the accuracy, relevance, and appropriateness of print and non-print electronic information sources.
Grade: 8
Sample Activities:
· Mr./Ms. Z's company has decided to relocate the employee and the family overseas. The employment opportunities exist in Australia, Brazil, China, Kenya, and Switzerland. Your family must make the decision as to the country of preference with a backup alternative. Provide a justification to the human resource department. Be prepared to negotiate a contract that meets career, financial, and personal needs.
· Earth is becoming uninhabitable
· An individual wants to select a career pathway.in an area of interest for future employment and postsecondary and lifelong learning.
· 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
· Students will research the value of currency from different countries (with emphasis on Spanish-speaking countries for Spanish World Language classes) as compared with the US dollar by using print and non-print electronic information sources.
Students will keep track of the value of different currencies over a specific time period by using printed resources and online currency converters. At the end of the course of study, students will compare and contrast the changes in value of the currency after having used the different modes of research.
Students will investigate the currency exchange rate at an ATM machine versus exchanging money at a bank.
Students will investigate the historical significance of the people, places and symbols depicted on piece of currency. While conducting this research, students will use the Internet to download pictures of various coins and money from other countries, bring in samples of money from other countries and practice purchasing items using currency from other countries.
· Students will become a resource to their peers and/community members who are traveling abroad (i.e. school band/chorus exchanges) and assist them in understanding currency exchange rates and the differences of converting money using an ATM machine as opposed to exchanging it in a hotel or bank. Students will also become a resource to newly arrived immigrant students and acquaint them with US currency.
· Web
Resources: Economic Education Web: Using the Internet to Teach Economics: An Idea Page:
http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/teachsug.htm
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