The purpose of this iAdventure is to help students develop an understanding of how career decisions willl impact lifestyle choices. In doing this students will research necessities of being an adult wokrer, given a specific career.

Students will perform research on housing and transportation, which they will record findings about. After choosing housing and transportation students will focus on other necessities and complete a budget (balanced) based on their decisions.

This iAdventure has been used to enrich student learning in the Real Game (http://www.realgame.org/viewContent.cfm/group/8). In using this activity students will be able to have a foundation for pricing on housing and transporation cost.

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Upon completion of this iAdventure
Students should Know (knowledge):
· The necessities of the independent adult worker.
· What a lifestyle is.
· How to make lifestyle choices based on income.
· How to apply decision-making skills to situations that could exist outside of the classroom.

Students should be able to Do (Skills):
· Calculate a monthly budget based on a given salary.
· Use the Internet to research the pricing of a variety of items.

Background Information

Prior to beginning the iAdventure students will choose a male or female character. The male character is Zach. The female character is Lola. The use of male and female characters is used to emphasize that careers are not gender specific.  Zach and Lola are single adults who have just completed the education necessary to pursue a chosen (assigned) occupation.

The setting for the story is Raytown, Missouri. Raytown was selected, so lifestyle choices will be appropriate to the community students are a part of. The iAdventure will take place in the current year the curriculum is being taught in, since live data regarding pricing of housing and transportation will be gathered using the Internet. The time span will be looking at cost for month regardless of the time required to purchase the item.

Curriculum Standards

National Career Development Guidelines

Self Knowledge
Knowledge of the influence of a positive self-concept.
Skills to interact positively with others.Career Planning.
Skills to make decisions.
Knowledge of the interrelationship of life roles.

Missouri Show-Me Standards

Knowledge Standards

Communication Arts
1. speaking and writing standard English
3. reading and evaluating nonfiction works and material
6. participating in formal and in-formal presentations and discussions of issues and ideas

Mathematics
1. addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division: other number sense, including numeration and estimation; and the applications of these operations and concepts in the workplace and other situations

Performance Standards

Goal 1:
Students in Missouri public schools will acquire the knowledge and skills to gather, analyze and apply information and ideas. Students will demonstrate within and integrate across all content areas the ability to:
1. develop questions and ideas to initiate and refine research
2. conduct research to answer questions and evaluate information and ideas
4. use technological tools and other resources to locate, select and organize information5. comprehend and evaluate written, visual, and oral presentations and works

Goal 3:
Students in Missouri public schools will acquire the knowledge and skills to recognize and solve problems. Students will demonstrate within and integrate across all content areas the ability to:
5. reason inductively from a set of specific facts and deductively from multiple perspectives8. assess the costs, benefits and other consequences of proposed solutions

Goal 4:
Students in Missouri public schools will acquire the knowledge and skills to make decisions and act as responsible members if society. Students will demonstrate within and integrate across all content areas the ability to:
1. explain reasoning and identify information used to support decisions6. develop, monitor and revise plans of action to meet deadlines and accomplish goals

Resources Needed

This iAdventure to be done as is would require use of the occupations assinged in the Real Game. If you would like to do this without use of the Real Game each student would have a salary information for a specific occupation prior to begining, since the information is applied for specific salary to show lifestyle choices.

Sample Real Game Occupation:  Entreprenuer  (Day In The Life)

In adidtion, you must have access to a group of Internet-connected computers.
 
 

Assessment

Student Scoring Guide
 
 

Creating Conclusions and Student Products

Lifestyles & Necessities Checklist
Lifestyle Worksheet
Budget Worksheet

Acknowledgements

The iAdventure concept was developed in the Warrensburg, MO school district, as part of the "Learning with iAdventures" program. This program was funded by a Competitive Technology grant from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Provide a link here, like the following:

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