Wake Forest-Rolesville Middle School
Career and Technology Education
Updated 8-5-04
Business Computer Technology I
and II 
We offer two courses in Business Computer
Technology. The classes are taught by Mrs. Davis. The courses
are open to seventh and eighth grade students. Both of our Business
Computer labs have brand new networked IBM NetVista computers, a video
projector, and a laser printer.
Course
Description
Business Computer
Technology Links
Exploring Career
Decisions 
This class is available to students in grades
six, seven, or eight. Students learn about all the career clusters, the
educational and work requirements, and explore their aptitudes for various
career choices. The teacher this year is Mrs. Singletary. Last year the classes took a field trip to The
News and Observer offices in downtown Raleigh, and Golden
Corral.
Course
Description
Career Links
Keyboarding 
This elective is open for all three grade
levels, but is recommended for all sixth grade students. The class is
taught by Mr.Moore and Mrs. Davis. Each lab has networked computers, a
laser printer, and a video projector. Students master keyboarding skills
using Microsoft Works and Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing software
applications.
Course
Description
Keyboarding Links
Keyboarding Games and
other Links
The Journey Inside: A
Fascinating Look Inside the World of Computers and the Internet
Exploring Life Skills I
and II 
This course used to be known as "Home
Economics." The class is open to students in grades 7 and 8. The
teacher is Mrs. Singletary. The classroom contains kitchen stations, as well as
sewing tables and a networked computer. Wonderful smells often entice
everyone in her hallway when the classes are preparing meals. The
curriculum includes preparation for parenthood and successful adult living:
resource management, nutrition and wellness, food preparation, keeping your home
clean and safe, etiquette and eating out, personal and social responsibility,
fashion and appearance, and career development. Level 2 includes learning simple
sewing techniques.
Students made "Sugar Babies" to care for and learn parenting
skills.
Course
Description
Family and Consumer Science Links
Home Economics Resources
Practical
Money Skills for Life
Food
and Nutrition
Free
Beginning Sewing Lessons
What Was Home Economics?
Consumer Jungle
Integrating
the Internet into the Home and Career Skills Classroom
Exploring
Technology Systems- Modular 
The classes are taught by Mr. Green. His classroom
has new networked computers with modular units on workstations. Topics include construction, transportation systems, and
aerodynamics.
The modular lab
includes stations in lasers and fiber optics, power and energy, automation,
engineering, and electronics and control systems.
Construction/Transportation Links
Archkidecture
How Stuff
Works-Building and Engineering
How Stuff Works_
Cars
Technology
Resources
Transportation Resources
Students prepare to race their CO2 dragsters.
Exploring Technology
Systems
Mr. Green teaches photography, video
production, and electronics. There are twelve new networked computers and
two standalone. Special software for this lab includes Adobe
Photoshop. The lab also features a video projector, Smart Board, laser
printer, scanners, and other technology hardware. Mr. Green recently won a
grant from the Trentini Foundation and Wake Forest Chamber of Commerce to
purchase a digital video camera and editing software. Students in this
popular elective have created magazine covers, T-shirts, PowerPoint projects,
animation/claymation, electronic circuits, public service announcements, and
other great products.One of his classes will be producing the in-house morning
news program at our school.
Photography
Links
How Stuff
Works
Tips and Tricks on
Digital Cameras
Digital
Camera Tutorials
Multimedia
Madness
AOL
School Photography Links
School-to-Career 
Wake County Public School System supports school-to-work
opportunities, which are incorporated across the curriculum at all grade
levels. Guest speakers, opportunities for job shadowing, a sixth grade
Truck Fair, Take Your Child to Work Day, and National Engineers Week are some of
the School-to-Career activities. We are supported by a Business Alliance which works
with the Wake Forest-Rolesville High School and the middle school. Mrs.
McBrayer is the Curriculum Integration Coordinator, responsible for
School-to-Career activities.
Student "shadows" CCB Manager Brad Turner on Groundhog Job Shadow Day.
Career Links
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