This module involves an extensive career interview with an adult. Please be prepared to help your student with this assignment. Preformance assessment will be based on participation, completion of module activities and results of the module post tests. Mr. Dowdell's and Mr. Forest's classes will switch places at the end of the first and third marking periods. In 8th grade Mr. Forest teaches a unit in communications technology that focuses on electricity and electronic core technologies and their applications in radio communications.
Students build electronic kits-a fun way to use their new knowledge.
Local, North American, and world geography become more familiar and easier to relate. Math skills are challenged with the use of complex formulas to solve problems in electronics and antenna theory. Students become more proficient with language skills by speaking on the radio and writing QSL cards to their new friends. There are oppurtunities to listen and to speak foreign languages with people from their native country. This new eighth grade class has been developed by Mr. Dowdell.