Journalism Career Lesson Plans

Students research a career in journalism and then interact with professionals in the field.

This lesson has 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.

In this lesson students understand the writing style in a newspaper. In this journalism lesson, students recognize that a newspaper has a catchy headline and objective writing. In this lesson students interview someone in an area of interest and write a news article.

Students explore several different types of communication: written, visual and career. They complete a 'Who Am I?' individual profile, recognize errors in their own literacy skills and identify three jobs requiring good written and visual communication skills.

In this lesson students investigate career interests. In this career education lesson, students complete a Career Awareness Portfolio that includes their job interests. In this lesson students 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.

Learners examine careers in security. In this careers lesson, learners discuss what is needed for travel into other countries and why passports are crucial. The teacher shows a model and then learners create their own passport.

5th 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. 5th graders 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.