Standards (what national, state or local standards are being addressed with this lesson?)
FACS National Standards/Competencies:
1.2.4 Demonstrate teamwork skills in school, community and workplace settings.
1.3.3 Analyze personal and family assets and skills that provide service to the community.
2.1.1 Apply management and planning skills and processes to organize tasks and responsibilities.
2.1.2 Analyze how individuals and families make choices to satisfy needs and wants.
2.1.3 Analyze decisions about providing safe and nutritious food for individuals and families.
2.4.1 Summarize types of technology that affect family and consumer decision-making.
2.4.2 Analyze how media and technological advances affect family and consumer decisions.
2.4.3 Assess the use of technology and its effect on quality of life.
2.5.1 Analyze the use of resources in making choices that satisfy needs and wants of individuals and families.
2.6.1 Evaluate the need for personal and family financial planning.
2.6.2 Apply management principles to individual and family financial practices.
3.3.1 Explain the effects of the economy on personal income, individual and family security, and consumer decisions.
3.3.2 Demonstrate components of a financial planning process that reflect the distinction between needs, wants, values, goals, and economic resources
3.5.3 Analyze features, prices, product information, styles, and performance of consumer goods for potential trade-offs among the components.
4.1 Synthesize information from a variety of sources that are judged to be reliable
4.11 Design a plan for accomplishing a selected action.
4.12 Implement and monitor a plan of action based on established standards and valued ends.
5.5 Draw conclusions based on data and information that are judged to be reliable.
8.4.3 Analyze food, equipment, and supplies needed for menus.
8.6.1 Apply principles of purchasing, receiving, issuing, and storing in food service operations.
8.6.2 Practice inventory procedures including first in/first out concept, date marking, and specific record keeping.
Massachusetts Social Science Standards:
E.1.4 Describe how people respond predictably to positive and negative incentives.
E.2.3 Describe how prices send signals to buyers and sellers.
E.3.5 Explain how competition among many sellers lowers costs and prices and encourages producers to produce more.
E.6.1 Explain the basic functions of money (e.g., medium of exchange, store of value, unit of account).
NETS for Students 2007 Standards:
1. Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students:
a. apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.
c. use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues.
d. identify trends and forecast possibilities.
2. Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. Students:
d. contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems.
3. Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information. Students:
b. locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media
c. process data and report results.
4. Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources. Students:
c. collect and analyze data to identify solutions and/or make informed decisions.
5. Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior. Students:
a. advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology.
b. exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity.
References/Links
Family and Consumer Sciences Standards and Competencies: http://www.doe.in.gov/octe/facs/NASAFACS/sc_1.html
NETS for Students 2007: http://www.iste.org/standards/nets-for-students/nets-student-standards-2007.aspx
Massachusetts Social Studies Curriculum Frameworks: http://www.doe.mass.edu/frameworks/hss/final.pdf
NETS for Students 2007: http://www.iste.org/standards/nets-for-students/nets-student-standards-2007.aspx
Massachusetts Social Studies Curriculum Frameworks: http://www.doe.mass.edu/frameworks/hss/final.pdf