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At Agriculture Education
- Explore the career pathways within the Agricultural Food and Natural Resources career field. They are:
- Agribusiness Systems
- Food Products and Processing Systems
- Animal Systems
- Plant Systems
- Natural Resource Systems
- Environmental Services
- Systems
- Power, Structure and Technical Systems
- Biotechnology Systems
- Education, Research and Training Systems
- Learn about the career opportunities in Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources
- Explore taking classes in the biological and physical sciences
- Recognize that agriculture includes many careers that are not solely agricultural production or business-oriented
- Recognize that there is an increasing demand for high-tech careers in areas such as precision agriculture, biotechnology, alternative energy production, natural resource management, and food production
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At Arts
- Learn about the Elements of Dance as you watch video clips of a Minnesota dance artist: http://opd.mpls.k12.mn.us/The_Elements_of_Dance.html
- Encourage your child to create a song using electronic notation software such as:
- Finale Note Pad: http://www.finalemusic.com/notepad/
- Sibelius: http://www.sibelius.com/home/index_flash.html
- Attend a community theater production in your neighborhood
- Ask your child to play a song or video for you and ask them to tell you why they like it
- Be a public supporter of the arts in your community
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At Business and Marketing Education
- Understand diversity and the roles of individuals within Business and Marketing
- Understand business environments and work site responsibilities
- Recognize that management of resources such as money, time and human capital are necessary parts of the Business and Marketing fields
- Understand behaviors for success in the Business and Marketing workplace
- Recognize how the economic and social needs of individuals and their families impact society
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At Career Development
- Appreciate that I am a unique person
- Appreciate and respect differences among people
- Use quality resources to explore and inform myself about career options
- Take responsibility to develop a realistic personal career plan
- Recognize which courses and extracurricular activities will help prepare me for my career goals
- Identify postsecondary educational programs that prepare me for my career goals
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At Family and Consumer Sciences
- Understand relationships and family systems, diversity, and the roles individuals play within the family
- Demonstrate that management of resources such as food, clothing, shelter, health care, recreation, transportation, time and human capital is necessary
- Understand policies that support consumer rights and advocacy
- Analyze resource conservation and waste management practices
- Recognize the necessity of good nutrition, wellness, food safety, and sanitation procedures
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At Health Education
- Analyze how environment and personal health are interrelated
- Analyze personal susceptibility to injury, illness, or death if engaging in unhealthy behaviors
- Analyze how perceptions of norms influence healthy and unhealthy behavior
- Analyze the cost and accessibility of health care services
- Demonstrate strategies to prevent, manage or resolve interpersonal conflicts without harming self or others
- Generate alternatives to health-related issues or problems
- Implement strategies and monitor progress in achieving a personal health goal
- Formulate an effective plan for optimal, lifelong health
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At Health Science Technology
- Understand diversity and the roles of individuals within the healthcare field
- Understand healthcare environments and work site responsibilities
- Recognize that management of resources such as money, time and human capital are necessary parts of the healthcare system
- Understand behaviors for success in the healthcare workplace
- Understand the healthcare needs of individuals
- Describe the stages of human development and the basic healthcare needs of each
- Recognize how the emotional, spiritual and social needs of individuals and their families impact wellness and recovery
- Explain how different diseases can influence the functioning, behaviors and attitudes of individuals
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At Language Arts/Reading
- Read a wide variety of fictional, non-fictional and technical texts
- Determine meanings of words, including those with multiple, specialized or technical meanings, using contextual and structural clues and other reading strategies
- Identify, restate, and/or summarize sequence of events, main ideas, facts and supporting detail and/or opinions in texts
- Make and support reasoned assertions about the text with elaborated and convincing evidence
- Evaluate how well literary elements are used to establish mood, place, culture and contribute to the effectiveness of a selection and development of its theme
- Establish a coherent and clearly supported thesis that engages the reader, conveys a clear and distinctive perspective on a subject, maintains a consistent tone and focus, and is well supported with evidence
- Apply conventions, grammar, punctuation and capitalization to a variety of types of writing, including literary response, research reports, persuasive writing, and technical writing
- Apply listening and speaking skills in both small group and large group settings
- Critically evaluate the messages and points of view employed in a variety of media
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At Mathematics
- Adapt and extend the mathematics that I know. This problem-solving disposition includes the confidence to formulate, approach and solve problems beyond those that I have studied
- Reason in a wide range of mathematical and applied settings. Reasoning includes spatial reasoning, probabilistic reasoning, statistical reasoning and symbolic reasoning
- Exchange and reflect on ideas, express my thinking coherently and clearly, listen to the ideas of others, and think about the audience when I write or speak. The relationships that I wish to express symbolically and with graphs, as well as the notation and representations for expressing them, are becoming increasingly sophisticated
- Use an increasingly large repertoire of mathematical representations with the knowledge of how to use them productively. This knowledge includes choosing specific representations in order to gain particular insights or achieve particular ends. Using various representations of these objects, I am able to recognize common mathematical structures across different contexts. I can create and interpret models of more-complex phenomena, drawn from a wider range of contexts, by identifying essential features of a situation and by finding representations that capture mathematical relationships among those features
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At Physical Education
- Perform advanced skills in selected activities (such as swimming strokes, selecting and using the correct golf club for a shot, dribbling a soccer ball while changing speeds, evading an opponent, protecting the ball and others)
- Develop and implement a personal fitness profile and plan on the basis of fitness assessment results
- Willingly participate in a variety of physical activities appropriate for maintaining and enhancing a healthy, active lifestyle
- Set up safety procedures, such as for guiding a hike over treacherous terrain, downhill skiing, skating and others
- Describe the movement progression from simple to complex to elite skills in selected activities such as volleyball, basketball, softball and others
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At Science
- Define what science is and does to develop knowledge, processes and technology to help society
- Learn a lot by taking elective science courses in high school
- Become involved in a variety of science- related clubs both at school and in the community
- Independently investigate a science topic of interest
- Use science to help the community by supporting other local initiatives
- Get ready for my future with a strong science foundation
- Get a rewarding career in science if I want to
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At Social Studies
- Discuss economic, social and cultural developments in contemporary United States
- Analyze the biological, cultural, geographic and environmental processes that gave rise to the earliest human communities
- Prepare for, conduct and document an oral history
- Use maps, globes, geographic information systems and other databases to answer geographic questions at a variety of scales from local to global
- Learn and be able to apply personal financial management and investment practices
- Understand how public policy is made, enforced and interpreted by the legislative, executive and judicial branches
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At Technology Education
- Do goal-related research and product testing
- Transfer technology through innovation and research
- Recognize the math and science embedded in technology innovations
- Analyze new technologies and their ethical effect upon our society and our planet
- Develop a personal educational plan that is aligned with a career program of study through grade 14 and beyond
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At Agriculture Education
- Help your son or daughter to develop academic and math, science and technology skills
- Encourage your high schooler to identify career opportunities in Agriculture, Food and Natural Resource
- Encourage your teenager to take advantage of the opportunities available through the FFA student organization
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At Arts
- Learn about the Elements of Dance as you watch video clips of a Minnesota dance artist: http://opd.mpls.k12.mn.us/The_Elements_of_Dance.html
- Encourage your child to create a song using electronic notation software such as:
- Finale Note Pad: http://www.finalemusic.com/notepad/
- Sibelius: http://www.sibelius.com/home/index_flash.html
- Attend a community theater production in your neighborhood
- Ask your child to play a song or video for you and ask them to tell you why they like it
- Be a public supporter of the arts in your community
My family can...
At Business and Marketing Education
- Model good parenting, work place ethics, confidentiality and community service efforts in your family, and respect diversity and societal norms
- Provide opportunities for your high schooler to manage time and resources
- Support opportunities for your high schooler to gain an understanding about the importance of appropriate dress code, teamwork and individual responsibility in the workplace
- Provide opportunities for your teenager to understand and communicate about his or her personal economic needs
- Communicate with your teenager and provide examples to help him or her understand business decisions in the context of your family
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At Career Development
- Praise your high schooler for his or her accomplishments and help in areas where needed
- Be a good role model and show appreciation and respect for all kinds of human diversity
- Encourage your high schooler to try new things
- Help your teenager see the relationship between gaining skills and knowledge and future career opportunities
- Reinforce your teenager's interest and desire to go on to postsecondary education
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At Family and Consumer Sciences
- Model good parenting, work place ethics, confidentiality and community service efforts in your family, and respect diversity and societal norms
- Provide opportunities for your high schooler to manage food, clothing, shelter, health care, recreation, transportation, time and human capital
- Provide opportunities for your high schooler to review examples that validate consumer rights and advocacy
- Provide opportunities for your teenager to study the use of resources in the household and the by-products of waste management
- Allow your teenager to participate in meal planning, shopping and food preparation
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At Health Education
- When natural disasters occur, ask your child to analyze the potential impact on individual and community health
- Discuss current events in the news that identify unhealthy behaviors (examples: like neighborhood violence or driving while intoxicated) and discuss the potential personal and community health consequences
- Look at statistics with your child about health behaviors (examples: teen sexual activity, teen drug use) and have them identify perceived norms versus actual statistics
- Share with your child information on various health insurance plans to increase their awareness of the vast differences
- Use real life family or friend conflict situations to discuss ways to resolve them without causing harm to self or others
- Ask your child to create an alternative after-prom party that is safe and substance free
- Ensure your child is aware of family health history when making goals and decisions around personal health. (example: diabetes or asthma when choosing a physical activity)
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At Health Science Technology
- Model good parenting, work place ethics, confidentiality and community service efforts in your family, and respect diversity and societal norms
- Provide opportunities for your high schooler to manage his or her time and resources
- Support opportunities for your high schooler to gain an understanding about the importance of appropriate dress codes, teamwork and individual responsibility in the workplace
- Provide opportunities for your teenager to understand and communicate about his or her personal wellness needs
- Communicate with your teenager and provide examples to help him or her understand human growth and development within the context of your family
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At Language Arts/Reading
- Encourage your teen to read often and widely, to pay attention to new words, and to consciously work on developing vocabulary
- Ask your teen's teachers for reading strategies and study techniques that might help him/her succeed in all of his/her reading course work across the curriculum
- Have your teen create a family Website or to keep a family blog for friends and relatives
- Subscribe to magazines of interest to your teen or borrow them from the library
- Discuss issues expressed in the media with your family
- Read magazines, newspapers, and editorials on current events and discuss the point of view of the author and others
- Discuss books, movies, high-quality television shows, and other topics to stimulate your teen's thinking and curiosity
- Use the Internet with your teen when possible to find information about family interests, student hobbies or topics being studied in school
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At Mathematics
- Visit the SciMathMN Website to obtain a bookmark with questions to help your child learn mathematics. http://scimathmn.org/docs/math_bookmark.pdf
- Explore hundreds of Web links at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematic's Illuminations Website. http://illuminations.nctm.org/
- Visit the Kids' Zone at http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/eyk/index.asp?flash=true to see how you perform on questions answered nationally or around the world
- Portray a positive attitude about learning and using mathematics
- Expect your teen to succeed and be sure that he or she understands that expectation. When you believe in them, and tell them that you do, they develop the courage and desire to succeed
- Share with your teen an upbeat attitude toward mathematics. Even if your own early experiences were not always positive, find ways to have fun with your teen while using mathematics
- Point out how mathematics is used in the world around them
- Encourage your teen's curiosity about the world around them. Listen to their many questions, and ask your own questions. Discuss with your teen how together you might find answers to these questions
- Ensure that your teen sees you and other adults using mathematics every day. Teenagers are more willing to try hard to learn a subject when they believe it is important and relevant to their lives
- Encourage your teen's enthusiasm for learning. If your teen has a special interest in mathematics, explore with his or her teachers and counselors ways that you can nurture that interest
- Ask your teen about his or her mathematics classes and look at the work that is brought home. Ask your child to explain classroom activities. Learn mathematics with your teen. Let your teen see that you are excited when you learn new things
- Talk with your teen about mathematics and solve problems out loud together. Reason out your answers, so that your teen will understand the value and usefulness of clear mathematical thinking
- Search the National Science Digital Library for more information: http://nsdl.org/
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At Physical Education
- Encourage your child to become involved with one or two activities and develop their skills to an advanced stage
- Ask your child to share their fitness assessment with you and then ask them to describe their fitness plan to maintain or enhance the results
- Encourage your child to participate in physical activity that they enjoy daily
- Ask your child to explain safety issues for physical activities in which they participate
- Ask your child to describe the beginning, intermediate and advanced skills in a physical activity they enjoy
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At Science
- See how your child's science knowledge stacks up against the Science Literacy concept maps at http://nsdl.org/
- Explore some of the resources on the science page at MDE: http://education.state.mn.us/mdeprod/groups/
Standards/documents/Memo/001033.pdf - Encourage some independent science exploration at the Minnesota Academy of Science: http://www.mnmas.org/mnmas/Home.asp
- Explore the resources at the Science Museum of Minnesota: http://www.smm.org/
- Compare your child's learning in science with that from other countries at http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/websites/16/
site/science.shtml - Encourage your child to listen to Science Friday for cutting edge science information and debates. http://www.sciencefriday.com/
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At Social Studies
- Take your child with you the next time you vote
- Encourage your child to read stories that are set in different times and places
- Discuss with your child what it means to be an American
- Talk about how Congress, the President and the courts do their jobs
- Find an object in your home that is part of your heritage. Talk with your child about where the object comes from and how you came to own it. Talk about how culture can be passed down through families. Ask your child to think of a family object that he or she would like to pass on to others
- Talk about family finances including household budgets, saving money, insurance for things like health, life, home and car and use of credit cards
- Ask your child to think about a problem that needs to be solved for the common good of the community. State what the problem is and what steps could be taken to solve it
- Discuss options or next steps with your child for when they graduate from high school
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At Technology Educaton
- Encourage your high schooler to explore postsecondary schools and careers
- Talk to your high schooler about the importance of science, technology, and math in all career areas
- Convince your teenager to take classes that will benefit him/her on their career path
- Help your teenager explore financial aid possibilities with high school and college counselors
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