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FACS: Exercise Physiologist
Present the exciting career of an exercise physiologist to your teens with a PowerPoint. The slide show explains what this professional does, the education required, the job atmosphere, salary range, and prospects. Finally, viewers will...
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Floriculture Wedding
This is kind of cool. Future floral designers prepare for a final exam by completing a wedding plan portfolio. They are given information about the wedding party and then must draw, list, and design all the flowers needed to make the...
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Understanding the Workplace
Local business is a huge part of the economy; explore the small companies in your own neighborhood with a career study lesson. Begin with a class discussion about types of local business before splitting scholars into small groups. Each...
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Who Am I as a Career? Who Art Thou?
Seventh graders explore career options and goals. For this career lesson, 7th graders study occupation cards and find a career path they are interested in. Students work in groups to to sort occupation cards with a career path poster....
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Career Preparation
Students examine career possibilities. In this career preparation lesson, students compile portfolios that feature their teaching abilities and make presentations about successful teaching.
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Traveling the Career Paths 2
Students discover the six different career paths they could take and why each path is important. In this career choice lesson, students discuss different career paths using a visual poster. Students then play interactive games.
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Career Bytes Interview
Young scholars conduct career-based interviews. In this career education lesson, students research careers and interview career professionals to produce a video that features ins and outs of the career.
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Traveling the Career Paths 1
Students explore careers. In this life goals lesson plan, students examine several career paths as they listen to puppets present different types of jobs and discuss the importance of each of the jobs.
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Infusing Equity by Gender into the Classroom: School to Career
High schoolers identify nontraditional career areas for their gender and discuss gender bias and stereotyping. For this nontraditional careers lesson, students research a nontraditional career and shadow the job in the workplace. High...
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Past, Present, and Future: Career Exploration and Planning
Tenth graders write an autobiography about their future. For this career education lesson, 10th graders write about the future based on their career goals. Students troubleshoot possible obstacles to fulfilling a life or career dream...
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The World of Work: The Portfolio
Learners compile information to include in their career portfolio. In this portfolio lesson, students view example portfolios using the given website and identify the portfolio components. Learners gather and compile artifacts for their...
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Selecting and Wiring Flowers
Train future floral designers how to select and wire flowers for a variety of design projects. They'll discuss the hook, piercing, wrap, and stitch methods of wiring flowers as well as floral taping.
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Electrical Principals and Wiring Materials
Train a budding electrician about the principles of electricity and the wiring materials needed to complete the job. Briefly covered are basic electrical concepts such as, volts, watts, circuits, and safety. Also covered are the...
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High School–Module 5: Transportation Solutions
Planes, trains, and automobiles ... the abundance of today's transportation options comes at a hefty price. Using the fifth and final lesson plan from the WE Are Innovators—High School Modules set, pupils explore how modern...
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Attaining Career Goals
High schoolers explore career options available to them. They explore several careers and their requirements. Students create an action plan to help them attain their career goals. This lesson is intended for high schoolers acquiring...
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The World of Work
Learners identify between appropriate and inappropriate behaviors at work. In this work behaviors lesson, students use a dictionary to define the related terms and visit various links to complete activities that define work place...
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Practice Interview Questions
The class is learning about jobs and interviewing, but you'd like to coach them a bit more. Great! Here are a set of interview questions that include teacher notes you can use to help learners understand how to answer each question to...
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Skill Building for Educational and Vocational Advancement
Over ten weeks, 8th graders refine their visions of future careers, develop skills needed to write resumes and business letters, and learn to make a strong impression at interviews. Three specific activities are included, but mostly the...
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Guide to Business Process Modelling
Project managers can add another cog in the wheel of understanding. This guide to business process modelling shows how to construct and use a process map to handle major projects. Tip: While the resource is intended for a vocational...
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Skills and Attitudes
What kinds of skills and attitudes are valued in a work environment? Using this set of worksheets and collaborative activities, your pupils will develop important life skills and consider what is necessary for getting and keeping a job.
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Careers in Department of Transportation
Cars, planes, and trains, oh my! Using the informative resource, scholars expand their knowledge about transportation-related careers. As a culminating activity, pupils research and present on a chosen agency within the Department of...
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BUS: The Future Begins Yesterday-Making Medicines
Your learners have all been to the drug store to pick up a prescription, but have they considered working on the other side of the counter? Discuss the potential career possibilities available to those interested in the pharmaceutical...
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Career Resources
Tenth graders explore options and resources available to further develop personal education plans for life-long learning. They listen to a speaker from a local vocational or technical institute. They ask questions of the speaker...
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Careers and Self-Portraits
Students explore careers they may have in their future. They create a paper collage self-portrait of themselves as adults dressed for work. They write an autobiography describing the education and training required for their chosen career.