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Reality Check from http://www.jumpstart.org/

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Reality Check from http://www.jumpstart.org/

Grade Levels

10th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade

Course, Subject

Career Awareness & Preparation
  • Big Ideas
    Career choice and preparation are lifelong processes based on many influences and using many strategies.
    Change impacts career options and choices.
    Families are the fundamental unit of society; strong families empower individuals to manage the challenges of living and working in a diverse, global society.
    Interests, aptitudes, and abilities are unique for each individual and play a key role in career choice.
    Personal budgeting is significantly impacted by career choice.
    There is a definitive relationship between education and career planning and choice.
    Community well-being is dependent upon a balance of personal and social responsibility.
    Health concepts are essential for wellness and a health-enhancing lifestyle.
    Safety impacts individual and community well-being.
  • Concepts
    Career plan maintenance.
    Changes that impact traditional and non traditional careers over time.
    Definition and importance of a career plan.
    Factors that impact personal career choices.
    Factors that support career selection.
    Impact of change on career choices.
    Post secondary career preparation opportunities.
    Relationship between educational achievement and career success.
    Relationship between personal budget and career choice.
    Relationship of changing roles in the workplace to new career opportunities.
    Relationship of educational plans to the career choice process.
    Relationship of personal interests, abilities, and aptitudes to career goals.
    Traditional and non-traditional careers.
    Traditional and nontraditional occupations.
    Varied sources of career information.
    Work and career decisions affect the family.
    A responsible health consumer is able to utilize appropriate self-care practices and products in concert with professional health care services.
    A variety of medical advances and governmental policies has made an impact in the prevention and control of health problems.
    A wide variety of factors such as fitness level, health status and environment, etc., can enhance or be harmful to efficient functioning of our body systems.
    Each individual is responsible for accessing valid health information to make, implement and evaluate their consumer choices.
    Goal setting sets the foundation for a lifetime of responsible health decision making.
    Relationships, career choices and both chronic and communicable diseases are examples of factors that play a powerful role in shaping our entire adult lifespan.
    Responsibilities, cost, and nutritional knowledge are examples of factors that impact the food choices we make as adults.
    The decision to use/not use drugs is impacted by the effects on the individual, family and community.
    There is a direct cause and effect relationship between well-being and the environment.
  • Competencies
    Describe the consequences of a recent personal decision.
    Develop an estimated personal budget based on the average income of a chosen career including variables such as charitable contributions, expenses, income, savings and taxes.
    Explain reasons why people work.
    Interview an adult and determine what factors influenced their career choices and how they influenced them.
    Make a list of the types of factors that influenced career choices by asking individuals at home who are in the workplace.
    Summarize ways work and career decisions affect the family.
    Write a brief essay or speech that justifies your selection of a career.
    Design a personal plan for healthy living throughout the entire adult lifespan.
    Select and implement personal health-enhancing behaviors that reduce health disparities and minimize risk factors throughout the lifespan.

Description

Students will make choices associated with their "dream life" and then identify and explore the costs associated with the choices they have made.  Choices include shelter, transportation, food, utilities, and entertainment.

Rationale

The goal is for students to imagine how they might live once they are on their own.  Then they will find out how much their so-called dream life will cost.  Once they identify their life choices, they will discover the income they need to live the life that they want.  The program even lists a group of careers that will support the person's lifestyle.  It gives a snapshot of a student's potential future, and gets them to think about how life decisions have costs.

URL or Resource

http://www.jumpstart.org/reality-check.html

Content Provider or Additional Information

Reality Check is on the website Jump$tart.org that is a website for the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy.  The goal of this non-profit organization is to advance and support financial literacy with school age students by providing free financial literacy tools for classroom use.

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