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Getting and Keeping a Job for Teens
Students examine teen labor laws. In this teen jobs lesson, students read labor laws and complete sample job applications. Students also role play job interviews and examine hiring packets.
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Hey, Get a Job! A Teen Guide for Getting and Keeping a Job
Students research the job marketplace and try to find a job for themselves. In this job search lesson, students make a list of possible job sites, read the Child Labor Laws, and complete the application process for a job. Students create...
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Who Works for Nonprofits?
Students explore career opportunities in the nonprofit sector. In this character development and career lesson plan, students identify job opportunities in a nonprofit organization and research the necessary skills needed for these...
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The Guy Behind Kinko's
Young scholars explore the concept of starting a business. In this starting a business lesson, students read an article about the founder of Kinko's. Young scholars discuss how Kinko's expanded and tried to avoid centralization and...
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Looking into Careers: Doing What I Like and Liking What I Do
Learners explore careers. For this service learning lesson, students consider the value of job satisfaction and explore non-traditional jobs related to animal welfare.
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Come to the Fair
Students explore the concept of animal welfare. In this service learning lesson, students present a "Career with Animals" exposition as they research animal welfare careers and present their findings to their peers.
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Functioning as a Team
Students work as a team to build a freestanding bridge from newspapers and masking tape and analyze the effectiveness of their group. In this teamwork lesson plan, students view and summarize a video on Service Learning Projects....
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Job Goals
In this careers worksheet, students complete a 10 question true/false on-line interactive exercise about setting goals to get a job that is right for you.
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Job Application
In this job application worksheet, students complete a ten question on-line interactive quiz about applying for a job. Students read the text and fill in the blanks with the correct word to finish each sentence.
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Resume
In this resume activity, students choose the best words to fill in the blank for sentences in a resume. Students do this for 9 sentences.
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Vocabulary Quiz: Who Am I? Jobs and Professions
In this careers worksheet, learners complete a 10 question multiple choice on-line interactive quiz about jobs and professions. Students read a clue to a person's career and mark the most logical answer.
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Hire Me! I'm Nice!
Students create resumes. In this careers lesson plan, students look through classified ads and decide on a "job" to apply for. Students write mock resumes by using professional resumes as an outline.
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Writing a Resume
Student create and evaluate resumes. In this practical writing lesson plan, students employ the writing process to write their own functional quality resumes.
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Reading: Ad For a Professional Job
In this reading advertisements worksheet, students read an ad for a job as Director of Outreach Programs at a College of Public Health. Students answer 8 true and false questions about the text.
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Nebraska Entrepreneur Success Stories
Students explore entrepreneurs of Nebraska. In this business and social studies instructional activity, students research Nebraska entrepreneurs to discover the history of their successful company.
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Economics Lesson: The Real McCoy
Students research the origination of the expression "The Real McCoy." In this economics research lesson, students read the book The Real McCoy. Students examine Elijah McCoy and his invention of the oil cup and how it relates to the...
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CelebDaq
In this stock exchange worksheet, students answer questions related to the celebrity stock exchange. Students answer 3 questions.
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Enterprise Worksheet 1
In these stock exchange activity, students use the Celebdaq to complete the chart about celebrity stock, shares, and dividends
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Technology
Students create podcasts. In this technology lesson, students familiarize themselves with podcasts and develop their own podcast about a current event.
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Creating Student Advertising
Learners explore common advertising strategies used by the media. In this advertising instructional activity, students identify persuasive language in advertisements and construct their own persuasive ad.
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Exploring Technology in Careers
High schoolers discover how technology is used in the workplace. In this careers lesson, students compare and contrast careers and how technology is incorporated into each of them. High schoolers set goals to achieve their ideal career.
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Could You Start a Business?
High schoolers learn how a business starts and finds financial independence. For this lesson, students learn the struggle of financial management, the costs of running a business and how to keep a budget.
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It's Your Future
Students learn about productive resources along with their requirements, supply and demand, savings, investments and interest rates. In this supply and demand lesson, students create a career plan and personal budget of their own and...
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Jobs People Do Word Search
In this jobs people do activity activity, students use the 35 words and phrases in the word bank to locate and identify them in the word search puzzle.