VT+Challenge

=Virtual Team Challenge=

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Read about the challenge our class will be participating in: [|VT Challenge]

Read the following documents before and during your participation: 1. **Save, open and complete:**

2. **Read:** [|quick-reference.pdf]


 * 3. Why is it important to keep the earth's water systems clean?**
 * Read:**[[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png width="32" height="32" link="http://dbutera-webdesign.wikispaces.com/file/view/environmental-awareness-handouts.pdf"]] [|environmental-awareness-handouts.pdf]

4. **Read about cost/benefit analysis:** [|portable-skills-handouts.pdf]


 * TASK 1: BUSINESS**
 * Summary of tasks:**
 * 1) **Main task:** Hire a vendor to handle a specific "crisis response" element for the oil spill.
 * 2) **"Green" Environmental Awareness Challenge:** Players are asked questions about the Earth's water systems, and in particular, about water as an earth system.
 * 3) "Problem-Solving" Challenge: Players are asked questions that challenge their ability to translate natural language problems into simple algebra equations - and also choose which natural language best describes given equations.
 * 4) **"Curriculum" Challenge:** Players are asked questions about the supplied "business" curriculum.
 * 5) **"Hidden" Quest:** There is someone in town who needs participants to help collect and test water samples so that remediation efforts can be planned. Can you find that person?
 * 6) **Other Activities:** What else can you find in the simulation?

[|student-business.pdf]

The next Virtual Team Challenge module focuses on ‘ethics’. This unit is centered around national standards for courses such as ‘Life Skills’ and ‘Business Education’ and introduces students to real-world concepts central to the understanding of ethical responsibility – which may help them view their own personal ethical responsibilities in a new way. In class, students learn about ethics in the same style of learning, activities, and in-class discussion as in the first week.
 * TASK 2: ETHICS**

[|student-ethics.pdf]
 * **Task Two Summary** ||  ||
 * **Simulation Component** || **Player Task** ||
 * Main Task || Hire a vendor to handle a specific ‘relief effort’ element to help the City to start on the road to recovery from the disaster. ||
 * ‘Green’ Environmental Awareness Challenge || Players are asked questions about the Earth’s water systems, and in particular, the impact that personal decisions and habits have on fresh water supply. ||
 * ‘Problem-Solving’ Challenge || Players are asked questions that challenge their ability to translate natural language problems into more complex algebra equations – and also choose which natural language best describes given equations. ||
 * ‘Curriculum’ Challenge || Players are asked questions about the supplied ‘ethics’ curriculum. ||
 * ‘Hidden’ Quest || There is someone in town that needs help wrangling volunteers to help with the recovery effort... can your students find them? What is keeping the volunteers from showing up for their assignments? ||
 * Other Stuff || What do your students make of what they found in the simulation during this Task? ||
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The last of the Virtual Team Challenge Tasks is focused on the topic of ‘decision-making.’ This unit examines the process of decision-making and introduces students to tools used to approach decisions. Just as in the previous two ‘Tasks,’ this module focuses on national standards for courses such as ‘Life Skills’ and ‘Business Education,’ and also presents material about environmental awareness and the application of mathematics to business and consumer problems.
 * TASK 3: DECISION MAKING**


 * **Task Three** ||  ||
 * **Simulation Component** ||  ||
 * Main Task || As it turns out, something sinister is transpiring in New City – and it is up to your students to find and apprehend those responsible! Participants must search New City for clues as to what’s wrong. ||
 * ‘Green’ Environmental Awareness Challenge || Players are asked questions about the Earth’s water systems, and in particular, the impact that personal decisions and habits have on fresh water supply. ||
 * 'Problem Solving' Challenge || Players are asked questions that challenge their ability to translate natural language problems into more complex algebra equations – and also choose which natural language best describes given equations. ||
 * ‘Curriculum’ Challenge || Players are asked questions about the supplied ‘decision-making’ curriculum. ||
 * ‘Hidden’ Quest || There is accountant in town who is overworked – and has clients who need help making decisions that he is simply too busy to get to. Can your students find him? What do his clients need help with? ||
 * Other Stuff || What do your students make of what they found in the simulation during this Task? Is it different from the other Tasks? Why, or why not? ||

[|student-decision-making.pdf]
 * READ:**



[|problem-solving-handouts.pdf]
 * Business Models and Problem Solving**