High_School+Strand+1

Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students: · apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes. · create original works as a means of personal or group expression. · use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues. · identify trends and forecast possibilities (Obtained from: []+ ) // Concept 1: Knowledge and Ideas // Use technology to generate knowledge and new ideas. // PO //// 1. Analyze, evaluate, and synthesize information to generate new ideas, processes, or products. // Overview: Students will conduct Internet research to create a museum exhibit that highlights the work of selected artists, musicians, and poets. [] Overview: Students will create original works of art or music and post them to the internet then email others to solicit feedback about the works and will discuss ethical and aesthetic issues for the creative artist who uses the internet. [] Use digital models and simulations to examine real-world connections, explore complex systems and issues, and enhance understanding. // PO //// 1. Predict and test the relationships amongst interdependent elements of a digital model, simulation or system. // Overview: Students will investigate the real costs of car loans or house loans. They will then evaluate the economics of the the decision and how their choice affected them. Students will compute costs and savings for each loan with or without added insurance costs. [] Overview: Students will: 1. Identify sources for economic data. 2. Interpret data. 3. Describe the present state of the economy using current data. 4. Use data to predict the state of the economy one year from now. [] // PO //// 2. Propose or create a model, simulation, or system. // Overview: A simple experiment constructing a catheter to measure the cardiac output. [] Overview: This activity explores the development of a mathematical model for the decay of light passing through water. [] // PO //// 3. Predict how one system operates by comparing it to multiple systems, digital models or simulations. // Overview: This lesson explores many issues surrounding credit cards- from what to look for when selecting a card to what the government is doing to aid consumers. []
 * Strand 1: CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION **
 * Create a Museum Exhibit **
 * Creating Original Art and Music to Share **
 * Concept 2: Models and Simulations **
 * The Real Costs **
 * Predicting the Economy **
 * Create a Cardiac Output Catheter **
 * Light Through Water **
 * Credit Cards - What to do with them **.

Use technology to forecast trends and possibilities. // PO //// 1. Analyze patterns and trends and their logical links to form inferences, and forecast possibilities providing novel insights. // Overview: Create a spinner and change the number of sectors and their size to create. Then, conduct a probability experiment by spinning the spinner many times. How does the experimental probability compare with the theoretical probability? [] Students will learn about the basic components and terminology of individual health insurance. They will make decisions about the value of insurance protection and identify trends in the cost of medical care. [] Overview: Students learn the meaning and measurement of six important economic indicators and use the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank National Economic Trends website to assess the current state of the economy. [] Overview: The wise use of resources are of concern to both environmentalists and economists and students will explore the trends in the world's population [] Use technology to create original works in innovative ways. // PO //// 1. Create innovative products or projects using digital tools to express original ideas. // Overview: Students will create original works of art or music and post them to the internet. Through emailing others the students will solicit feedback about the works and will discuss ethical and aesthetic issues for the creative artist who uses the internet. [] // PO //// 2. Use digital collaborative tools to synthesize information, produce original works, and express ideas. // Overview: Students read, analyze, and discuss medieval English ballads and compare medieval ballads with modern ones. After familiarizing themselves with ballad themes and forms, students write their own original ballads. []
 * Concept 3: Trends and Possibilities **
 * Experimental vs theoretical probability **
 * Value of Health Insurance **
 * Assessing the current state of the economy **
 * Wise Use of Ressources **
 * Concept 4: Original Works **
 * Original works of music and art. **
 * Ballads - Medieval English and Modern **