JAG

JAG students will be working on a project about a career field that interests them. Students will complete papers, websites, iMovies, posters, or infographics on topics of their choice. However, it must have something to do with a career. You will conduct research (including an interview with a professional in that field), craft a project based on evidence, and share it through your final project.

Students will learn firsthand how to make and balance a monthly budget from income to expenses including taxes, student loans, housing, food, transportation and discretionary expenses.
This activity will force students to face the real-life challenge of balancing needs vs. wants.
This activity will give students a realistic idea of the current costs of common goods and services including rent, utilities, transportation costs, and food.
This activity will give students a sense of if their planned job/career earns enough money right out of school to support the lifestyle they hope to have - some students will realize that they might need a second job or roommates just to make their budgets balance!

Students will go through a series of activities to prove they have the soft skills necessary to be successful at their job. Each activity will focus on different soft skills students are lacking in the workplace. The challenges will encourage creativity, communication, critical thinking, listening skills, respect, flexibility, problem solving, teamwork, patience, negotiation, time management, and interpersonal skills. Students will then create a game/activity that incorporates soft skills, to present to the Pep Assembly Committee for use at future assemblies.

Students will examine the lives of United States soldiers through research, videos/documentaries, and in person interviews. Students will understand what life was like for soldiers of various United States wars before, during, and after their time of service. Student led interviews will specifically focus on how soldiers' employment plans, hopes, and dreams were impacted by their service in war. Students will also examine the impact of major United States wars as it relates to employment in the United States.

Returning JAG students will be working to create a lesson on what it means to be �An Ideal JAG student.� They will then teach the new incoming class of JAG students what it means to be a part of the JAG Advantage and part of the JAG class.

This project will allow students to experience how a business works within while working as a team. Students will work as a team to create a newspaper that they can share with their fellow peers and school community. A lead editor will be chosen and the rest of the class we serve as journalist. Which will require the journalist to meet deadlines and report to the lead editor to ensure the completion of the newspaper by the date set?

The law is involved in our daily lives from when we wake up in the morning to when we go to sleep. This PBL will teach students how the law is involved in their everyday lives and how they can/can better navigate situations that they may encounter involving the law.