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Gauging Quality of Life

  • Which person has a richer quality of life?
  • Which of the formal measures of quality of life best reflect your list of indicators of quality of life?

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Specific Outcomes

This critical challenge may address these outcomes:

Curriculum Outcomes Addressed: 10-1

Specific Outcome 4.4 - Students will explore various understandings of quality of life (GC)
Specific Outcome S.1.5 - Students will evaluate personal assumptions and opinions to develop an expanded appreciation of a topic or an issue
Specific Outcome S.3.5 - Students will assess the impact of human activities on the land and the environment
Specific Outcome S.3.6 - Students will assess how human interaction impacts geopolitical realities
Specific Outcome S.3.7 - Students will use current, reliable information sources from around the world, including online atlases
Specific Outcome S.5.4 - Students will demonstrate leadership during discussions and group work
Specific Outcome S.5.5 - Students will respect the points of view and perspectives of others
Specific Outcome S.5.6 - Students will collaborate in groups to solve problems
Specific Outcome S.6.2 - Students will acknowledge the importance of multiple perspectives in a variety of situations
Specific Outcome S.7.1 - Students will develop, express and defend an informed position on an issue
Specific Outcome S.7.3 - Students will draw pertinent conclusions based on evidence derived from research
Specific Outcome S.8.1 - Students will communicate effectively to express a point of view in a variety of situations
Specific Outcome S.8.2 - Students will use skills of formal and informal discussion and/or debate to persuasively express informed viewpoints on an issue
Specific Outcome S.8.3 - Students will ask respectful and relevant questions of others to clarify viewpoints
Specific Outcome S.8.4 - Students will listen respectfully to others
Specific Outcome S.8.10 - Students will understand that different types of information may be used to manipulate and control a message (e.g., graphics, photographs, graphs, charts and statistics)
Specific Outcome S.9.2 - Students will evaluate the validity of various points of view presented in the media

Curriculum Outcomes Addressed: 10-2

Specific Outcome 4.4 - Students will explore various understandings of quality of life (GC)
Specific Outcome S.1.5 - Students will evaluate personal assumptions and opinions
Specific Outcome S.3.4 - Students will assess the impact of human activities on the land and on the environment
Specific Outcome S.3.5 - Students will use current, reliable information sources from around the world, including online atlases
Specific Outcome S.4.1 - Students will demonstrate skills needed to reach consensus, solve problems and formulate positions
Specific Outcome S.5.4 - Students will consider the needs and perspectives of others
Specific Outcome S.5.6 - Students will demonstrate cooperativeness in groups to solve problems
Specific Outcome S.6.2 - Students will promote and respect the contributions of team members when working as a team
Specific Outcome S.6.3 - Students will cooperate with others for the well-being of the community
Specific Outcome S.7.1 - Students will develop and express an informed position on an issue
Specific Outcome S.7.2 - Students will develop conclusions based upon evidence gathered through research of a wide variety of sources
Specific Outcome S.8.1 - Students will communicate effectively in a variety of situations
Specific Outcome S.8.2 - Students will engage in respectful discussion
Specific Outcome S.8.4 - Students will ask respectful and relevant questions of others to clarify viewpoints on an issue
Specific Outcome S.8.5 - Students will make respectful and reasoned comments on the topic of discussion
Specific Outcome S.9.2 - Students will analyze the validity of various points of view in media messages
C Citizenship
ER Economics and Resources
CC Culture and Community
I Identity
LPP The Land: Places and People
GC Global Connections
TCC Time, Continuity and Change
PADM Power, Authority, and Decision Making
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