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Journalism Career Lesson Plans
Find teacher approved Journalism Career lesson plan ideas and activities
Students research a career in journalism and then interact with professionals in the field.
Students research a career path in scientific and technical visualization. They prepare a Career Web Page about the career path they chose. The web pages be compiled into an electronic resource for future students.
Students understand the writing style in a newspaper. In this journalism lesson, students recognize that a newspaper has a catchy headline and objective writing. Students interview someone in an area of interest and write a news article.
investigate career interests with fifth and sixth graders. They will complete a Career Awareness Portfolio that includes their job interests to then create a PowerPoint presentation or a scrapbook to assess their career awareness knowledge.
Students choose an employment opportunity from a list of jobs. Next, students research their job and an employment application form on the Internet. With partners, students create journals describing the job qualifications, salaries, and benefits.
Sixth graders examine careers in security. In this careers lesson, 6th graders discuss what is needed for travel into other countries and why passports are crucial. The teacher shows a model and then students create their own passport.
Fifth graders gather information about the roles, responsibilities, skills, and training and education requirements of workers. Then they input this information into a graphic organizer chart and identify the similarities and differences in the careers. Students alos analyze the information for each group member as compared to their own findings.
Students complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book Journal of Jedediah Barstow. In this reading lesson plan, students complete journal entries, go over vocabulary, answer short answer questions, have discussions, and more.
Students compare the differences between job varieties. In this career exploration lesson, students evaluate different aspects of jobs and then write a diary entry as if they were the real employee.
Ninth graders play the Accounting Jeopardy Game to review the journalizing process. They analyze business transactions from source documents and journal about transactions using various journal formats. They use the Jeopardy template to make their own Jeopardy game for review.
