Current Assignments
The main goal of this unit is to improve the students' ability to utilize computer applications in real-life situations. High level skills are developed using the most current software in applications such as database, spreadsheet, sorting, word processing and desktop publishing. Through hands-on activities, lecture, and role-playing, students deal with some of the life skills necessary for becoming a self-reliant, responsible individual, such as decision making, challenges and choices, budgeting and money management, personal and professional social skills, and time management.
Applications Assignment / Character Packet Checklist
Activities & Life Skills Covered:
- Personal Finance Management
- Budgetting
- Mortgages
- Home Inventories
- Savings
- Investments
- Resume' Writing
- Job Searching
- Job Interviewing
- Student Loans
- Moving (Planning & Costs)
- Rental Agreements
- Research
- Information Retrieval & Management
- Report Writing
- Annotated Bibliography
- Information Presentation
Microsoft Office
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Power Point (presentation)
Handouts