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Welcome Teachers and Youth Program Coordinators!
Your students are about to embark on an exciting adventure! In a game-like learning environment, ScholarShop''s Options for Kids can help your students build academic and life skills while at the same time strengthen the awareness and value of their personal qualities. With Garfield as their guide, the activities on this journey will promote positive youth development and instill life-long skills as your students gather information regarding careers, postsecondary educational opportunities, and the relevance of school as it relates to future goals. To learn more about what young people need for positive development to occur, visit the National Youth Development Information Center at www.nydic.org.
If you have Internet access, this unique program can easily be integrated into a regular classroom situation. The activities promote study skills, vocabulary development, reading comprehension, writing, listening, speaking, simple math application, and higher level thinking. Many of the activities will help you meet the academic, career, and personal / social standards recommended by the American School Counselor Association. If you would like to track your students as they progress through the various activities and have access to lesson plans and evaluation forms, you can subscribe to our "teaching tools" for only $50.
For more information or to subscribe, send an e-mail to cgerber@scholarshipamerica.org or call 800-537-4180, ext. 656.
The activities in ScholarShop''s Options for Kids were adapted from ScholarShop Jr., an activity-based curriculum and multi-media resource library that is a component of ScholarShop. ScholarShop was recently described by the Pathways to College Network as a "promising research-based practice" for its work helping students and their parents develop the skills, and access critical resources, necessary to pursue a postsecondary education. For information on ScholarShop and all its components, visit our web site at www.scholarshop.org.
Because of the individualized nature of the activities, ScholarShop''s Options for Kids is also ideal for use in community centers as well as after-school and enrichment programs in any setting including Boys & Girls Clubs and YMCAs.
The activities were designed for young people in grades 4-6 but students both younger and older may find them valuable too.
This web site is divided into four modules:
Module (模块)One: You Are 100% Smart
Young people fly through the brain to discover that they are 100% Smart. They explore their unique interests, talents, and abilities utilizing the concept of Howard Gardner''s Multiple Intelligences. The activities are designed to facilitate young people''s thinking about their future, to assist students in the discovery of their unique personal qualities, and to enhance feelings of confidence.
This module emphasizes three important points:
1. People possess different types of "smarts" or intelligences.
2. All of these intelligences contribute to present and future success.
3. People can develop or increase any of these intelligences.
Module Two: Exploring Careers
Young people tour a city as Module Two focuses on the general Notion of the world of careers. The activities provide information about jobs and preparation for the world of work. They demonstrate how unique interests, talents, and abilities can be indicators of possible career directions or areas of further career exploration. The activities also introduce young people to the concept of a "career path" and guide them in thinking about the necessity of long- and short-term planning to achieve potential career goals. They are asked to look at "the big picture" in terms of where they are now in the educational realm and where they need to go to fulfill their career goals.
Module Three: Educational Opportunities
To overcome misconceptions and obstacles to accessing postsecondary education, in Module Three students go exploring through a mysterious cave and see that preparing for college is Not as scary as it may sound. The activities provide young people with basic information about the nature and purposes of education after high school. Activities also link educational requirements to possible career choices and reinforce how performance in school impacts what happens in the future.
Module Four: Back to Basics
While it is too early for young people to commit to a specific career choice, it is not too early to reinforce the idea that present school success, behavior, and performance influence future career options. While engaging young people in a treasure hunt, the activities in Module Four emphasize the importance of education and link school performance with job performance. Through motivational activities, students are invited to inventory their school work habits, improve study skills, and have fun enhancing basic academic skills including reading, writing and math.
In the end, young people will see that the treasure they seek is Not only within them, but the treasure is them. Students can then print off a certificate signed by Garfield the Cut certifying that he or she is 100% Smart and is prepared to succeed in school and in life.
You are encouraged to share with your students your personal hopes and dreams, career goals and future plans as examples to help them progress through the various modules and activities. Parents and mentors should also be encouraged to join the students on this journey.
Have fun!
单选题
This passage is written for teachers or instructors for children.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】本题的关键词为teachers，我们可以轻易的定位到文章的标题上，即：Teachers and Youth Program Coordinators。也就是本文显示的写作对象：教师或青年项目合作者。因此，本题选择YES。
单选题
The Scholarshop Program for kids is inapplicable in classroom situation.
单选题
The Scholarshop Activities for kids rely on a teacher as the guide of the game journey.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】从本题题干中的activities，guide和journey等字眼可以把本题定位在第一段的第三句话上With Garfield as their guide，the activities on this journey will promote…(通过“加菲”为孩子门引路，游戏活动能够提高…)。由此可见指导游戏活动的是一个游戏所设计的卡通形象，而不是生活中的教师。所以，很明显，本题应选NO。
单选题
Activities to facilitate young people''s thinking about their future are in Module One.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】从本题题干的young people''s thinking about their future中，我们不难定位到Module One中的第二句：The activities are designed to facilitate young people''s thinking about their future(该模块设计了促使年轻人考虑他们的未来的活动)。本题正好与文章相对应。可见，本题应选YES。
单选题
Scholarshop for Kids does not provide any activities to get young people prepared for higher education.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】通过本题的关键词prepared for higher education我们可以把本题定位到Module Three这一段中。通过对于这一段的阅读，我们知道所有。Module Three的活动都是号召年轻人中学毕业后继续接受教育，并帮助他们树立信心，准备迎接困难。很明显，本题是与文章内容相背的。故本题选NO。
单选题
To use the Scholarshop''s games for kids, the customers will have to pay a high fee.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】本题的关键词定为games，pay a high fee，顺着此脉络，我们可以把本题定位到第二段的第四句：If you would like to track yore students…(如果希望监控学生参加各种活动的情况，或者想得到课程计划和评估表格，您只需50美元就可以订阅“教学工具”)。但是没有提及参加游戏是否需要支付费用。所以句子中的内容实际上在文中未提及。因此，本题选NOT GIVEN。
单选题
Those who fulfilled all the activities of the ScholarShop for Kids may get a virtual certificate.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】很明显本题的关键词为certificate。我们可以轻易的把本题定位到倒数第三段的最后一句：Students can then print…(学生可以打印一张由加菲猫签名的证书，证明他／她百分之百的聪明，已经为学习和生活作好了充分的准备)。由此可见本题的说法是正确的，应选择YES。
填空题
ScholarShop''s Options for Kids provide a 1 learning environment.
填空题
The activities in ScholarShop''s Options for Kids were adapted from 1.
填空题
The activities in Module Two guide young people in understanding that it is necessary to have 1 and 2 plan to achieve career goals.