TECHNOLOGY LITERACY
21.3–5.TL.1Essential Concept and/or Skill: Use technology resources to create original products, identify patterns and problems, make predictions, and propose solutions.
- Demonstrate creative thinking to generate new ideas and products using a variety of technology tools and resources.
- Create and share new ideas, products, and processes related to curriculum content.
- Work individually and collaboratively to create, display, publish, or perform media–rich products.
- Use models and simulations to identify problems and propose solutions.
- Use technology resources to gather and depict data, recognize trends, and project outcomes.
- Use a variety of technology tools to work collaboratively with others inside and outside the classroom.
- Use telecommunication tools efficiently to communicate information and ideas to multiple audiences.
- Access remote information using technology.
- Engage in learning activities with learners from other countries and/or cultures.
- Appropriately contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems using technology.
- Create a plan or process that utilizes digital tools and resources to investigate and answer issues, questions, or problems.
- Locate, organize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media.
- Access information for specific purposes, and assess the validity of the information source.
- Identify, select, and organize data. Discuss and describe the results.
- Choosing from a variety of real–world issues and/or problems, use technological resources to develop and refine questions for investigation.
- Use technological resources to conduct research and complete a project.
- Identify trends or solutions or assist students in making decisions.
- Identify and explore diverse perspectives and processes to find multiple solutions to problems.
- Demonstrate awareness of the dangers of sharing personal information with others.
- Demonstrate an understanding of what electronic theft and plagiarism are and why they are harmful.
- Identify the positive values of using technology to accomplish tasks.
- Use technology to explore and pursue personal interests.
- Show others how to use new technologies, and use technology in a way that assists, rather than prevents, others from learning.
- Use everyday technology processes, hardware, and software.
- Select the most efficient and appropriate technology tool for a specific task.
- Begin to identify the source of a problem with technology, and, if necessary, identify the appropriate support personnel.
- Apply prior knowledge of technologies to new technologies.
FINANCIAL LITERACY
21.3–5.FL.1Essential Concept and/or Skill: Create long and short term goals based on a prioritization of wants and needs.
Develop short–term and long–term financial goals.
Develop a realistic spending plan for financial independence.
Identify responsible credit management.
Establish strategies for protection of identity.
Recognize investment options.
Recognize the local, state, national, and international impact of personal financial habits and actions.
Stefanie Wager[email protected]
515-725-7842
Iowa Core DocumentsIowa Core 21st Century Skills
k-12_21stcentskills.pdf
Develop short–term and long–term financial goals.
- Distinguish between short– and long–term goals.
- Explain the importance of goal setting, how to prioritize those goals, and the need for both short– and long–term goals.
- Create a timely, attainable goal.
- Explain difference between wants and needs.
- Explain prioritization factors to consider when determining expense–related decisions.
Develop a realistic spending plan for financial independence.
- Illustrate that career choice, education and skills, and economic conditions affect income.
- Determine own attitudes and behaviors toward spending, saving, and investing.
- Recognize sources of money (earned or gifted).
- Recognize multiple sources of income as well as alternative sources (family members, neighbors, friends for jobs or gifts).
- Recognize other types of compensation (bartering, trading).
- Explain the benefits of savings versus spending.
- Describe the impact of spending on savings.
- Identify the different ways to pay for items (cash, check, credit, and debit).
- Explain how non–cash methods of payment still require adequate funds.
Identify responsible credit management.
- Recognize the uses of credit.
- Identify appropriate times to use credit.
- Recognize that borrowing is a debt to be repaid.
- Explain the role of interest regarding debt.
- Recognize the importance of repaying a debt.
- Explain potential consequences for not returning a borrowed item.
- Explain the positive consequences of repaying debt on time.
Establish strategies for protection of identity.
- Explain what it means to have a personal financial identity stolen.
- Identify ways of protecting their identity.
- Describe what insurance is and why it is important.
- Describe the impact of losses, financial and non–financial.
- Recognize the importance of written documentation and other types of protection available for students.
- Explain the various people who provide protection and the roles they play.
Recognize investment options.
- Identify various ways to save.
- Explain the importance of saving in relation to future needs.
- Identify various options for saving/investing.
- Explain how an investment can grow in value.
- Explain how an investment might decrease in value.
Recognize the local, state, national, and international impact of personal financial habits and actions.
- Recognize that different people have different needs, wants, and financial priorities.
- Explain how one’s actions impact others.
- Recognize consequences for both good and bad decisions.
- Recognize that an individual’s behavior impacts the decisions and consequences of the broader community.
Stefanie Wager[email protected]
515-725-7842
Iowa Core DocumentsIowa Core 21st Century Skills
k-12_21stcentskills.pdf