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

 

Index: 9.2C Grade 8 CPI 2

 

Standard: 9.2 - Consumer, Family, and Life Skills

 

Strand: C - Interpersonal Communication

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 2 -  The student will organize thoughts to reflect logical thinking and speaking.

 

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.

 

·       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.

 

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

 

·       Buy Me That

 

·       Kente Cloth Design

 

·       Divide the class into four groups. Two groups will be assigned organized behavior and two groups will be assigned unorganized behavior. Students will brainstorm the characteristics of the behavior that they have been assigned. They will then prepare a short skit (5 minutes) demonstrating the behavior and the consequences of the behavior in an occupational setting.

 

·       Students will each be given a copy of a business policy. Students are to read the policy and will be given five minutes to interpret the policy and prepare to implement their interpretation in a role play situation.

 

·       Students will visit a place of business and speak to the owner/manager about the company’s policies. Students will ask questions regarding employee policies, service policies, credit policies, pricing policies, promotional policies, and product policies. Students will ask the reasons for the policies, how the policies are communicated, and how they are enforced. Students compile their information into a written report that is word processed. The report will include each of the policies and the rational for each.