JAG

This PBL helps you, the teacher, and the students discover each of the students� individual learning style. This project will help to ensure that you can assist them in the best possible way throughout the school year in developing studying habits, PBL project groups, and helping other teachers understand what works best for the student to learn, and study, the topics being covered in general education classes. Students can take the information they compile and use it to advocate for themselves in other classes as well the workforce.

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!

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.

The students will learn the importance of the decision making process by holding a mock national election. The students will pick
a candidate completely at random. Students will then research the candidate�s platform. The students must then modify the
candidate�s platform to be appealing to the students of their school. The students will then come up with a campaign plan and
begin the campaign process of getting their candidate elected by using what they know of the decision making process.