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Identification of Career Choices
Take some time to have your pupils identify careers that are not traditional for their gender.
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To Be or Not To Be: A Career Awareness Project
Pupils explore the Six Michigan Career Pathway Clusters and possible careers for their future. They research various careers and career paths. Students create a PowerPoint presentation based on the Career or Career Cluster of their choice.
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Education and Careers
Fifth graders explore careers and decide what type of education is needed for each.
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MATHEMATICS IN VARIOUS CAREERS
Young scholars explore various careers that involve math.
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Clothes on the Grow
Can you grow clothes? Sure, wool, cotton, and Angora are all natural resources used to make textile products. Learners investigate the differences between synthetic and natural fibers, then consider textile processing careers. They watch...
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From Milk to Cheese & Seed to Shelf
Learn about food production by making cheese, seeing how a seed gets to a shelf, and discussing food safety. Budding agriculturalists complete several activities and learn about food production, biotechnology, food preservation,...
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Designing the Careers Show
Students write a song. In this career lesson, students form groups based on occupational interests. Student groups write song lyrics about their chosen career. Students present their songs to the class.
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Career Exploration
High schoolers research a career of their choice and compile information in a PowerPoint presentation.
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Showtime Jobs
Students plan and present a play or puppet show. In this artistic lesson, students practice organizational and communication skills to put on a performance. The task should focus on the many jobs that take place "behind the scenes."
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Sports Careers
Students research various sports careers, locate possible places of employment, and give an oral presentation of their findings.
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Farming: It's a Fact
Understanding where our food and textiles come from is key to understanding business, economics, and the importance of modern agriculture. Learners play a game, read text to determine farm fact from opinion, and itemize a grocery receipt...
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Preparation for Transitions and Change— Guidance and Career Education
Every hopeful in your class has gone through some kind of life change, from parents' divorce to a death in the family to moving up into another grade. Encourage them to discuss these changes, the skills they used and acquired during...
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Word Scramble- Occupations
Students learn about several different occupations. In this occupations lesson plan, students complete a word scramble with occupation words. Students must be able to spell the occupations correctly. Students are graded on the...
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Careers in Television
Middle schoolers discuss and research how a news program is produced. They watch a web based video before working in small groups to produce a news program. They role play different jobs as they produce the program to share with at least...
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Choosing a Foreign Language Career
"Why do we have to learn a foreign language?" Have you ever heard that question before? Give your novices this project, and have them research different jobs that require the use of a foreign language. They create a PowerPoint...
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Rx for Tired Classrooms: Vocational Ed to the Rescue
Secondary carpenters apply their skills to improve display spaces in classrooms at their campus. Includes a contract between workers and teachers who sign on for improvements in the their rooms. Concurrent exploration of building and...
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Our Client Is The Cincinnat Art Museum
Students design various commercial products for the Cincinnati Art Museum using on-line sources, past designs, and creative educational software. This instructional activity has excellent project ideas for various student levels...
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Terrific Traveling Tour
Fifth graders discover the career of a museum curator as they assemble mock museum displays and gather information on famous works of art. The lesson is very complete and includes lesson extensions, resource links, and curricular...
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What I Want to be When I Grow Up
Sixth graders discover different careers in music. In this career exploration lesson plan, 6th graders explore four different categories of music careers: music education, music performance, music business and music therapy. Students...
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Paws in Jobland Job Bank
Students utilize their knowledge to explore jobs. In this lesson about jobs and careers, students discuss other jobs that might not be included in Paws in Jobland. Students conclude that they are familiar with other jobs and gather...
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Race into Reading
Students create a career exploration experience for elementary students. In this career exploration lesson, students select a career field d to read about to elementary children. Students then present the Career Exploration Day to the...
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Where Do I Fit?
Fourth graders complete activities to learn about career options and the role jobs have in community. In this career activity, 4th graders complete a career exploration worksheet and study the local community jobs available. Students...