The students will fill out applications for an international conglomerate, give out pay checks, pay rent and utilities and balance a checkbook. They will also be role playing bankers and managers and dealing with salary cuts and employee cutbacks. This activity integrates math, social studies and language. Language arts, mathematics, art, field-trips and career awareness were integrated into this unit. In these pages, we create a realistic teaching activity, whereby a problem brings into play several topics of instruction.
Students utilize modern technology to solve a problem.
They gain a better understanding of the complexity of economics and the competitiveness of industry. Students keep a video journal of themselves and their classmates using problem solving methods to create a model product that can be used to solve a problem. The students will be researching, making predictions and doing some creative writing. This article also includes a suggested list of resources for the future unit. This activity integrates science, technology and language.