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Spotlight on Ford PAS Themes:Building Foundations: Developing 21st Century

Skills

Spotlight on Ford PAS Themes:Building Foundations: Developing 21st Century

Skills

Facilitators:

Eliza Fabillar, EDC

(Newton, MA)

Anne Shure, EDC

(Newton, MA)

Dikea Simmons, Southeastern H.S.

(Detroit, MI)

Spotlight on Ford PAS Themes: Building Foundations: Developing 21st Century

Skills


Skills

Agenda:

• Introduction to Building Foundations in Ford PAS

• Sample Activity: Module 1: From Concept to Consumer, Activity 4: Putting a Product Together

• Student Presentations

• Panel Discussion: Highlights and challenges of teaching Ford PAS


Skills


Skills

21st Century Skills

Critical Thinking Problem-Solving Teamwork Communication Research

Building Foundations: Developing 21st Century Skills


Module 1: From Concept to Consumer: Building a Foundation in Problem-Solving

Module 2: Media and Messages: Building a Foundation of Communication Skills

Module 3: People at Work: Building a Foundation of Research Skills

Module 4: Careers, Companies, and Communities

Building Foundations Building Foundations

21st century skills are:

• Taught and assessed in the first four modules

• Emphasized, reinforced, and expanded on throughout the Ford PAS curriculum

• Relevant to all subject areas

• Needed to successfully prepare students for postsecondary education and the workplace

Module FocusModule Focus

• Module 1: Problem-solving in the context of product design, development, and production

• Module 2: Communicating through reading, writing, role-play activities, and presentations in the context of expanding a fictional business

• Module 3: Research on how the workplace has changed throughout U.S. history

• Module 4: Research on the nature of the contemporary workplace and the interplay between business and community

Module 1 Activities at a GlanceModule 1 Activities at a Glance

Activity 1: Inventive Thinking

Activity 2: The Evolution of Everyday Objects

Activity 3: Making Product Designs

Activity 4: Putting a Product Together

Activity 5: Seeing Companies in Action

Activity 6: Designing for the Future

Module 1, Activity 4: Putting a Product Together

Module 1, Activity 4: Putting a Product Together

• With your team, plan a production process for making envelopes

• Create a production kit that contains instructions for making your envelopes

• Exchange your kit with another team and create envelopes, using their instructions

• Check with your partner team and see what they produced, using your kit

Making a Production Kit Making a Production Kit 1. Figure out how your envelope is made. (Hint: Use

“reverse engineering” by unfolding the envelope.)

2. Make a template of the envelope.3. Make a blueprint:

– List all the materials needed to make the envelope.

– Write clear step-by-step instructions for assembling the envelopes. Include pictures, if appropriate.

4. Complete the process table for producing your envelope.

5. Test and refine your process. (The envelopes produced need to be high-quality. How will you check the quality of your completed envelopes?)

Evaluate a ProcessEvaluate a Process

1. Exchange production kits with another team

2. Create 10 envelopes, using their instructions

3. Check with your partner team and see what they produced, using your kit



Ford PAS Students:

Vanessa Edge, Advanced Technology Academy (Dearborn, MI)

Cody Krier, Bath H.S. (Lima, OH)

Johnitta L. Bowens, Southeastern H.S. (Detroit, MI)

Tarina L. Packnett, Southeastern H.S. (Detroit, MI)

Sandibel Maldonado, La Academia (Lancaster, PA)

Wilmary Sierra, La Academia (Lancaster, PA)

Building Foundations:

Developing 21st Century Skills Building Foundations:

Developing 21st Century Skills Panelists:

Cindy Andersen, Advanced Technology Academy (Dearborn, MI)

Carla Kohls, Bath H.S.

(Lima, OH)

Dikea Simmons, Southeastern H.S.

(Detroit, MI)

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