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

 

Index: 9.2B Grade 4 CPI 2

 

Standard: 9.2 - Consumer, Family, and Life Skills

 

Strand: B - Self-Management

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 2 -  The student will recognize and build upon personal strengths.

 

Grade: 4

 

Sample Activities:

 

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

 

·      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.

 

·      Each student makes a list of what they do well.  Have students form a circle.  Start with one person and have them say something that the person to their right does well.  Continue around the circle.