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

 

Index: 9.2D Grade 8 CPI 4

 

Standard: 9.2 - Consumer, Family, and Life Skills

 

Strand: D - Character Development and Ethics

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 4 -  The student will describe how personal ethics influence decision making.

 

Grade: 8

 

Sample Activities:

 

·       An individual wants to select a career pathway….in an area of interest for future employment and postsecondary and lifelong learning.

 

·       Kente Cloth Design

 

·       Debate ethics and impact of genetic engineering.

 

·       Propose solutions to drug use in competitive athletic events

 

·       Discuss how substance abuse by community helpers and workers might affect people.

 

·       Develop methods for dealing with individuals who miss payments on credit cards or default over time.

 

·       You are shopping and notice a woman stuffing a pair of stockings in her purse. Discuss whether or not you would report her and why.

 

·       It is one o’clock in the morning and you are late getting home with your parent. As you approach the intersection in you car, you notice that no one is around. Explain whether or not your parent should drive through the intersection and why..