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Tools for Latino Family Outreach: Supporting Student Success in Middle Grades and Beyond: This toolkit is designed to guide school leaders through the process of conceptualizing, planning, implementing, and assessing an outreach program aimed at Latino parents.
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Using the Ford PAS Curriculum Materials: This document provides detailed information about the Ford PAS curriculum materials. View the PDF

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Planning for Efficiency

For teachers only.
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As of May 2008, Planning for Efficiency (Module 6) has been revised. If you’re using the © 2008 Teacher and Student Guides or the © 2008 PDF versions of the Teacher and Student Guides, you’re all set. If you’re using older versions of either guide, you have several options:

If you’re using the © 2003 Teacher and Student Guides:

If you’re using the © 2008 Teacher Guide and the © 2003 Student Guide:

If you’re using the © 2003 Teacher Guide and the © 2008 Student Guide:

  • The revised teacher and student pages are listed and available here, where you can download and print them for classroom use.
  • The revised student pages are also available here.
  • You can also find the revised student pages at point of use in the Module Resources below, highlighted in gray.
  • The revised student pages are available here.
  • You can also find the revised student pages at point of use in the Module Resources below, highlighted in gray.
  • The revised teacher pages are available here.

* Text highlighted in gray links to pages from the © 2008 Student and Teacher Guides.


ACTIVITY 1: What Is Efficiency?
The Ice Cream Shop Student Guide pages 3–5
How Efficient Can You Get? Student Guide pages 10–11
M:E Minutes Sample Student Guide page 16–18
SESSION 1
Before You Teach For teachers only.
Preview the video.
THE ICE CREAM SHOP For teachers only.
Play the video The Ice Cream Shop. As students watch the video, they should use a table like the one in the Student Guide on page 3 to take notes on any waste they see.
HOMEWORK 1.3

Meeting for Success
Write an Agenda and Minutes

Microsoft Office Templates Gallery has a number of minutes templates for use in Microsoft Word.

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ACTIVITY 2: If I Could Save Time in a Bottle . . .
Skill Resource: Using Templates
SESSION 7
Before You Teach
For teachers only.
Read Teacher Information: The Critical Path of a Smoothie on page T 36.

SESSION 8
Before You Teach
For teachers only.

Use the information on page T 31 to create index cards that describe changes to the original scenario.

No student module resources for this activity.

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ACTIVITY 3: Materials and Machines
Airplane Game Roles and Responsibilities Student Guide pages 49–52
SESSION 10
Before You Teach
THE AIRPLANE GAME
For teachers only.
Set up the classroom as described in Teacher Information: The Airplane Game on pages T 49–T 50. Note that there is a lot of paper required for this activity. You might want to have students collect used paper ahead of time (as long as it is 8.5 ” x 11” and not an important document!).
SESSION 12
Before You Teach
For teachers only.
  • Preview the On the Line video segment.
  • Cue the video to 3:30.
ON THE LINE
If you are unable to obtain a copy of On the Line, look at the following Web sites to read descriptions of Ford's assembly line innovations and see photographs of Ford assembly lines and factories.

WGBH, A Science Odyssey: Ford Installs the First Moving Assembly Line
Michigan.gov: The Assembly Line and the $5 Day - Background Reading
National Park Service: Highland Park Ford Plant
1913 The First Ford Assembly Line
Ford Workers Assembling Hub caps
Americaslibrary.com: First Ford Assemble Line - Detroit, MI 1913
Americaslibrary.com: Assembly line worker
Autolife.com: Ford's Highland Park Plant, circa 1915
Allposters.com: Ford's River Rouge Plant Assembly Line
Greenfield History Site: Assembly Line Workers

Assembly Line Online Videos

Liketelevision.com: Ford's Highland Park Plant (Video - 46 seconds)
WVEC.com: Ford's Norfolk Plant (Video - 30 minutes)

SESSION 13
Before You Teach
SIMULATING A PRODUCTION LINE For teachers only.
  • To access the simulations, install Enterprise Dynamics (ED) and copy Simulations 1 and 2 (both files are in this zipped folder) onto each team computer. They are ED files.
  • Run ED and preview the simulations.
  • Preview Using Enterprise Dynamics.

Students should read Using Enterprise Dynamics before they begin using the software. They should also have this document available during the next session.

Tip

When students need to start making changes in the production line for Simulation 1, they should refer to the Changing a Simulation section of Using Enterprise Dynamics for a complete list of the changes they can make to the production line.


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ACTIVITY 4: The Human Factor
SESSION 16
Before You Teach
WHAT PREVENTS PEOPLE FROM GETTING WORK DONE? For teachers only
  • Preview the video segment.
  • Cue video to 13:31.
  • Look over RM 4.1 Making Lunch, RM 4.2 Productivity at the Office, and RM 4.3 Stress in the Workplace, for use as examples of inappropriate or inefficient use of personnel in a workplace setting. You may also choose your own inefficiency examples. The following Web sites contain cartoons depicting workplace situations that may be used as additional examples of inefficient use or management of human resources:
    Dilbert
    Cartoonbank
    Working Daze
  • Set up four stations around the room, with one inefficiency example at each station.
  • Cut out and post each quotation from RM 4.4 Productivity Quotations.
No student module resources for this activity.

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ACTIVITY 5: The Lean Pizza Factory
Introduction—Learning Goals Student Guide page 81
Mapping the Value Stream Student Guide pages 87–88
SESSIONS 21 AND 25
Before You Teach
For teachers only.
Prepare the materials as described in Teacher Information: Penelope’s Pizza on pages T 70–T 74*.
No student module resources for this activity.

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ACTIVITY 6: Mission: Efficient
Mission: Efficient Presentations Student Guide page 102–103
SESSION 27
Before You Teach
For teachers only
Review the Mission: Efficient Project Guidelines in the Student Guide.
Confirm invitations to company representatives and any other guests invited to the final presentations.
SESSIONS 28 AND 29
Before You Teach
MISSION: EFFICIENT PRESENTATIONS
For teachers only
Check with teams about any technology they will need for their presentations.
No student module resources for this activity.

Module Test

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SKILL RESOURCES

Using Templates (Activity 2)

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6/08/2008