Standards Addressed

• Student can apply critical-thinking skills to organize and use information acquired from a variety of valid sources, including electronic technology.

• PILOT Schools: Student can apply critical-thinking skills to organize and use information acquired from a variety of valid sources, including electronic technology.

Standards Addressed

• Student can apply critical-thinking skills to organize and use information acquired from a variety of valid sources, including electronic technology.

• PILOT Schools: Student can apply critical-thinking skills to organize and use information acquired from a variety of valid sources, including electronic technology.

Standards Addressed

• Student can apply critical-thinking skills to organize and use information acquired from a variety of valid sources, including electronic technology.

• PILOT Schools: Student can explain the significance of various individual writers and artists such as Carmen Lomas Garza, ...and Bill Martin Jr. and their stories, poems, statues, and paintings and other examples of cultural heritage to various communities.

Standards Addressed

• Student can identify and compare the heroic deeds of state and national heroes, including Hector P. Garcia, …. and Ellen Ochoa, John “Danny” Olivas.

• PILOT Schools: Student can identify various individual writers and artists such as Kadir Nelson, Tomie dePaola, and… their stories, poems, songs, statues, and paintings and other examples of cultural heritage from various communities.

Standards Addressed

• Student can identify scientists and inventors, including Jonas Salk, Maria Mitchell, and others who have discovered scientific breakthroughs or created or invented new technology such as Cyrus McCormick, Bill Gates, and Louis Pasteur.

• PILOT Schools: Student can create a simple budget that allocates money for spending, saving, and donating.

Standards Addressed

• Student can identify individuals, past and present, including Henry Ford and other entrepreneurs in the community such as Mary Kay Ash, Wallace Amos, Milton Hershey, and Sam Walton, who have started new businesses.

• PILOT Schools: Student can identify individuals, past and present, including...entrepreneurs in the community such as Mary Kay Ash, Wallace Amos,...and Sam Walton, who have started new businesses.

Standards Addressed

• Student can identify ways of earning, spending, saving, and donating money.

• PILOT Schools: Student can explain how government regulations and taxes impact consumer costs.

Standards Addressed

• Student can explain the concept of a free market as it relates to the U.S. free enterprise system.

Standards Addressed

• Student can explain how supply and demand affect the price of a good or service.

• PILOT Schools: Student can explain how supply and demand affect the price of a good or service.

Standards Addressed

• Student can identify ways of earning and spending money.

• PILOT Schools: Student can identify and compare the heroic deeds of state and national heroes, including James A. Lovell, Ellen Ochoa and John “Danny” Olivas.