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Expose your class to a career option that is fast growing in today's job market. They'll watch a video and take notes on IT careers. Then they discuss what an IT career takes, who is getting employed, and how to plan for a career in IT. Additional plans, information, video, interest survey, and worksheets are all included.
Students explore the relationship and impact of information technology in the business arena. They describe one or two aspects of IT jobs that interest them and identify one or two ways to further explore the world of IT careers.
Students use the internet to research two IT job clusters in which they are interested in. They read actual job descriptions and their salaries. They also discuss the educational experience needed for the jobs they found.
Students describe the components of an HVAC system and determine which factors influence how efficient the system can be. They work together to develop hypotheses about the systems and their cost effectiveness and efficiency.
Learners complete an activity that illustrates the concepts of giving accurate instructions and computer programming. They also identify the relationship of the instructions/code to computer programming. Students then create a peanut butter sandwich by writing an HTML web page and use programmable robots.
In this World Heart Day worksheet, students complete activities including reading a passage, matching phrases, fill in the blanks, correct word choosing, multiple choice, sequencing, unscramble the sentences, write questions, take a survey, and writing. Students complete 12 activities for World Heart Day.
In this math worksheet, students convert binary numerals to standard form. They write the corresponding letter in the riddle at the bottom of the page to tell how the computer described its job.
A five-day plan spans conjunctions, reading comprehension, sequencing, paragraph wriitng, compare-and-contrast, context clues, and a wide array of other literacy skills. Content focuses on the human body, the digestive process, and man vs. machine themes using informational text and the 50-line Rudyard Kipling poem "The Secret of the Machines." The content covered is enough to guide a month of thoroughly-taught curriculum. It may be suitable for a science/language arts collaboration, or a G/T enrichment course in which learners integrate a wide range of skills and divergent content. Worth the time it would take to flesh it out.
Explore classical mythology and the influence they have in the solar system. Seventh and eight graders visit the given links to explore words from mythology and how classical mythology shows up in everyday language. They discover literary allusion and references to mythology, and discuss the role of mythology in planetary science. Then they can draw a new planet and present it to the class.
Through interaction, help pupils recognize the best times and ways to use compound sentences. Both good and bad examples are given for them to choose between. After the examples, the following slide shows the correct answer in bold type. Plenty of practice will reinforce this concept with your class.