Home and Careers 7

The seventh grade Home and Careers program is designed to help the students improve their quality of life by preparing them to meet their present and future responsibilities as family members, consumers, home managers, and wage earners. Seventh grade students will attend home and career classes for fifteen weeks. The goal of the curriculum is to develop skills, which lead to effective decision-making, problem solving, and management in all areas of daily living. They include the following:

• Personal Development – awareness of self and relationship with others.

• Personal and Family Resource Management – consumer skills and money management, nutrition, clothing, and personal environment.

• Career Planning – an overview of work, awareness of their interests, abilities, and values related to work and a career, and look at tentative career plans.

Technology 7

Seventh grade technology is the first half of the one unit junior high technology program. The emphasis in this course is on the history of technology, the resources of technology, and the components or subsystems that make up larger technological systems, students will use tools and machines to solve technology related problems. Seventh grade students will attend technology for fifteen weeks on an everyday basis.

Home and Careers 8

By the end of eighth grade all students are required to complete a ¾ unit in the study of home and career skills. As in technology, the emphasis in this course is on process, problem solving, decision-making, and management. The topics include personal development, resource management, and career planning. Students receive home and career instruction for ten consecutive weeks on an every day basis.

Technology 8

All students are required to take one unit of technology by the end of eighth grade. The emphasis in this course is on process and problem solving. Students design and construct solutions to challenging problems. In eighth grade students receive twenty consecutive weeks of technology study on an every day basis.