Community Outtings build skills

Introduction
The teacher and students will discuss places they need to learn about in the community. They will, through guided discussion, produce a list of locations and vote on the order things will be visited. The class will write invitations to the transition class at the other high school in the county to join us on some of our outings. Invitations will be sent to that class and we will receive responses. The focus will be on community visits to teach age appropriate skills and social behavior.
Objectives
The students will create written materials and develop pen pals with other students in a similar class.
Students are expected to travel into the community demonstrating appropriate social skills in many different settings.
Students are expected to correctly handle money to purchase items of need as well as services.
Students are expected to learn the value of performing volunteer service aa they work at local food bank or thrift store locations.
Students are expected to make decisions about where they want to go while participating in a democratic system following the rules of voting.
Students are expected to develop, interpret and explain charts or graphs of vote results.
Students are expected to develop language expression skills.
Students are expected to care for equipment and materials as they develop and produce a scrapbook.
Method
Use role-playing to practice:
Money skills
Grocery store skills
Social skills
Use paper pencil tasks to learn about
money skills
Maps and map skills
Real World Reading and math skills
Use Internet and PC skills to learn about
Money skills
Map skills
Writing skills
Real world money (coupons, sales ads, comparison shopping)
Use listening skills to answer questions about text read describing outings.
Closure
Create a class scrapbook of outings and experiences.
Evaluation
Portfolio of student work
Class Scrapbook of outings and experiences