Human Growth & Dev.

Learning Goal: Discover the power of setting career goals.

Setting career goals is a vital practice that can benefit anyone with a dream or a vision for their future. Young people who are just starting out on the grand journey of life are at a particularly opportune time to start career planning and setting goals. Planning can help them mold their future into one that they desire.

• Student: I can identify what is important to me and begin setting educational, and career goals.
• I can explore different options for financial assistance, learn about educational opportunities in Oklahoma, and discover resources to help me.

I can analyze my strengths and explore my career path options and I can research careers that might be suited for me.

Estimated Time for The Week: 1 hour 15 minutes for the week

Learn & Practice:

• Watch: The Child Development Career video - link: Child Dev. as a Career
• Create: an account at OK College Start
• Take: at least two assessments by clicking on the Career Planning tab; choose the Learn About Yourself section and then Interest Profiler.first. Choose another assessment to analyze your strengths. Discover what careers pop up!
• Research - at least three different careers.
• Explore the website and share with your family.
• Reflect: What did you discover? Was it a surprise or did it confirm what you already know about yourself? Does this give you strength to move forward in your career endeavors and continued education?
• Share: fun things I found out.

Interpersonal Studies/Human Growth and Development

Learning Goal:

I can have an idea of what makes a relationship healthy or unhealthy.

I will spend time completing the “RelationSHIP Graphic Organizer.”

Estimated Time for The Week: 2 hours

Learn & Practice:

Watch

The Shelter's Youth Advisory Council discuss dating violence, teen healthy relationships and how being in the YAC has helped them.

Watch: Skills for Healthy Romantic Relationships | Joanne Davila

People may know what a healthy romantic relationship looks like, but most don’t know how to get one. Psychologist and researcher Joanne Davila describes how you can create the things that lead to healthy relationships and reduce the things that lead to unhealthy ones using three evidence-based skills – insight, mutuality, and emotion regulation. Share this with everyone who wants to have a healthy relationship.

Read : University of Georgia Relationship Articles

Create

1. On scratch paper divide the paper in half and label each section with the headings: healthy and unhealthy.

2. Create my own artistic rendition of the relationSHIP

Reflect

Family discussion on healthy relationships and if you are currently dating or have a good friend continue the discussion of how to keep relationships healthy.

Share

Email your final “RelationSHIP” to your teacher.

Interpersonal Studies/Human Growth, Week 6

Learning Goal:

I can identify characteristics of aging and discuss my ideas of aging with family.

Estimated Time for The Week: 1 hours,

Learn & Practice:

• Watch

Millennials Show Us What ‘Old’ Looks Like, What age is old to you? What does an old person look like texting, jumping jacks, dancing, and walking?

• Read

Aging is a gradual process which begins at birth. While there are several universal aspects of aging (such as physiological changes in skin, hair, senses and internal organs), people age differently. Many factors affect how an individual ages, including gender, heredity, education, occupation, diet, exercise, family life, socioeconomic status and lifestyle choices. Although age is merely a measure of time, it has significant social meanings and implications. Different cultures and historical periods have different perceptions of age. Perceptions of age also change as individuals themselves age, so that an 8-year-old would have different -options than an 80-year-old of what it means to be old

• Create

On the line graph below indicate at what age you think a person:

a. becomes a teenager;

b. becomes an adult;

c. becomes middle aged

d. becomes old.

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

2. Why did you choose the age(s) you did for each phase of the life cycle

3. Review the true/false statements to further identify you ideas on aging.

T F 1. A person's height tends to decline in old age.

T F 2. Persons over 65 have more chronic illnesses that limit their activities than younger persons.

T F 3. Older persons have more acute (short-term) illnesses than persons under 65.

T F 4. Older persons have more injuries in the home than persons under 65.

T F 5. Persons 85 and older have fewer car accidents than drivers between the ages of 16-44.

T F 6. The life expectancy of nonwhites at age 65 is about the same as whites.

T F 7. The life expectancy of men at age 65 is about the same as the life expectancy of women at age 65.

T F 8. The majority of older people (over 65) are senile.

T F 9. All five senses tend to decline in old age.

T F 10. Most older people have no interest in, or capacity for, sexual relations.

T F 11. Over 10 percent of the aged are living in long-stay institutions, such as nursing homes.

T F 12. Most families do not care about their older members and often abandon them.

T F 13. Older people take more medications than younger people.

T F 14. If a person has been smoking for 30 or 40 years, it does no good to quit.

T F 15. Older people should stop exercising so they do not wear out their muscle tissues or deplete their energy.

T F 16. Intelligence usually declines with old age.

T F 17. Older people usually take longer to learn something new.

T F 18. The reaction time of most older people tends to be slower than that of younger people.

T F 19. Most medical practitioners tend to give the aged a low priority.

T F 20. In general, most older people are very much alike.

T F 21. Personality tends to change with age, with older people being more easily provoked or agitated.

T F 22. Most older people are set in their ways and are unable to change.

T F 23. People tend to become more religious as they age.

T F 24. Although older people often express awareness of death in conversations, they generally are not fearful of it.

T F 25. Many grandparents take care of their grandchildren full time.

• Reflect

Discuss with your family about aging and the different stages of the life cycle

• Share

Share your observation with your teacher