Content Area: Career Education and Consumer, Family, and Life Skills

 

Index: 9.2A Grade 12 CPI 4

 

Standard: 9.2 - Consumer, Family, and Life Skills

 

Strand: A - Critical Thinking

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 4 -  The student will recognize bias, vested interest, stereotyping, and the manipulation and misuse of information while formulating solutions to problems that interfere with attaining goals.

 

Grade: 12

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        A public relations firm has been hired to develop and produce a documentary alerting young adults to the need for fiscal responsibility when using credit cards. As an employee, you have been asked to develop a five-minute demo for the client.

 

·        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.

 

·        Current transportation systems consume natural resources and add to pollution and congestion.

 

·        Students will keep track of their marking period grades by manually keeping records and then inputting the data on Excel or other spreadsheet program, which can then be easily converted into a graph form.

 

·        Student store: Manually design and draw a layout that would be most conducive to a student store. Where should different merchandise be placed, where should the cash register be placed, how should inventory be stored, how can items be best displayed and advertised? If available, students will use design software such as Smart Draw or CAD to develop a computerized representation of the store.

 

·        Students will create a graph indicating daily sales revenue by type for the school store. This will be used for monthly comparisons to analyze purchasing habits of consumers and determine daily inventory and purchasing requirements.

 

·        Credit Tips and Traps

 

·        Crime Scene Investigation: Has Someone Stolen Your Identify?

 

·       Does Your Money Really Grow On Trees?

 

·       Fluid Power/Robotics

 

·        Character Education Portfolio

 

·        Gourmet Foods "Traveling Cuisine"

 

·       I’ve Got a Problem-Conflict in the Workplace