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

 

Index: 9.2A Grade 12 CPI 3

 

Standard: 9.2 - Consumer, Family, and Life Skills

 

Strand: A - Critical Thinking

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 3 -  The student will apply the use of symbols, pictures, graphs, objects, and other visual information to a selected project in academic and/or occupational settings.

 

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

 

·        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.

 

·        The town has decided to build a new school. Prepare a presentation to convince the local board of education.

 

·        This activity is based on students proposing a solution to a local issue regarding recycling and waste management. They must develop an action plan which would require them to analyze the data in a spreadsheet program using algebraic formulas, create a table comparing the advantages and the disadvantages of incineration as a disposal method, design and develop an object that uses recycled materials as the energy source and research and chart the sources of toxic waste.

 

·        Natural Selection Analogue. Students will use a simulation to demonstrate coloration as a result of natural selection.

 

·       Domino Dealer

 

·       Fluid Power/Robotics

 

·       Accessible Public Transportation

 

·       Travel Safety by Bus on Public Transportation

 

·        Ethics in the Workplace

 

·        Gourmet Foods "Traveling Cuisine"

 

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