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Scientific Method
Students complete a basic science experiment as a class and go through the steps of the scientific method. In this scientific method lesson plan, students do this all together as an introduction.
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Designing Your Professional Portfolio
Students watch a video about professional portfolios. They brainstorm ways they could use this information to build their own portfolio. Students identify five things they have accomplished in student teaching that could be included in a...
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How Does Who I Am Relate to Employability?
Sixth graders participate in question and answer sessions and develop a skill-based resume. They identify and explain resume-writing situations in which an ethical dilemma may present itself. Finally, 6th graders identify and project the...
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Who Will Get the Job?
Seventh graders demonstrate their ability to identify interview skills that lead to success in the job-seeking process by participating in and observing an interview with an employer. Students also use a checklist to validate their...
In Working Order
Life Skills Lesson Activities
Examine the proper procedures and guidelines of Occupational Health and Safety with activities designed for high schoolers. Job seekers learn how to identify and remedy common workplace hazards, and to mitigate risk when possible.
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What Are Safe and Unsafe Drugs/Medicines/Objects?
Encourage responsible decision-making while boosting sorting skills with a instructional activity that looks at safe and unsafe situations. Scholars use two bags, one happy the other sad, to sort scenario cards. After a thorough...
Azar Grammar
Song Lessons: Father and Daughter
Paul Simon's "Father and Daughter" offers language learners and native English speakers an opportunity to study adverb, adjective, and noun clauses.
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The Giver: Lesson 1
Do “memories need to be shared?" Are “memories…forever?" Would you give up memory to live in a perfect world? Introduce a unit centered on Lois Lowry’s utopian/dystopian novel The Giver with a series of activities that has groups...
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Help! I Need Five Minutes to Study
Students learn to use a time grid or a calendar to increase productivity of their studying. In this studying instructional activity, students record how they spend their studying time and then adjust as needed. Students...
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Getting and Keeping a Job for Teens
Students examine teen labor laws. For 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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Museum of Computer Technology
Students research the five generations of computing devices and computer inventors, and create a virtual museums.
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Baseball - America's Pastime
Students complete Internet research about baseball and baseball players. They complete a variety of activities including writing an epitaph for Jackie Robinson, a news article about him, and make graphs displaying salaries of a number of...
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Office Secretary
Students explore school secretaries. In this ELL vocabulary and language development lesson, students look at pictures of school secretaries performing various jobs and give oral descriptions of what they see. Students visit the school...
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Invention Convention Podcast
Learners create Podcasts about individual inventions using GarageBand to record, edit, mix, and publish their work. The culminating Podcasts can then be downloaded to the school website via iTunes.
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Compare Ethical And Non-ethical Workplace Attitudes
Students interpret work-related situations and communicate (written or verbal) ethical responses. They l include in their response the impact of the ethical consideration in the scenarios on customer service. They create another...
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Texture in Fashion
Students participate in an activity where they are blindfolded to guess what type of fabric it is, relying on their sense of touch. They discuss different items in the classroom that have texture and give a list of words that describe...
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Hyperlinking Partnership
Learners get involved in a unique collaboration that enhances their knowledge of architecture and design. Develop organizer resources with others. They are engulfed into a world of architects and museum specialists to facilitate the...
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Electrical Power Equipment
Students identify various electrical equipment and safety signs and the importance and dangers associated with each. They use cards of power equipment and create a presentation that includes the name of the power equipment that they...
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Road Safety- Alert Communications and Emergency Response
Learners examine the effectiveness of road safety organizations. In this road safety lesson plan, students identify three road safety watch agencies that aid truck drivers to keep them safe. They look at the skills that truck drivers...
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Abuse and Neglect: United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child
Students analyze the consequences of inadequate or inappropriate care giving (e.g., the effects of neglect or abuse). They analyze the influences that have impact on growth and development during adolescence. Pupils analyze services...
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My School Goal (Part1)
Third graders share their accomplishments and how they felt when they reached their final goal. In groups, 3rd graders brainstorm ideas and goals. They discuss personal goals, both short term and long term. They list steps in...
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Analyzing My Path to Success
Seventh graders review their graphs from the previous lesson about trends. Individually, they identify their personal strengths and weaknesses when it comes to being successful. To end the lesson, they use this information to write a...
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Industry-Based Learning
Students are placed in an industry-based environment to complete their requirements for college credit. Once they have begun, they read their workplace standards and what is necessary to complete their internship. They keep track of...
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Science: Making Career Connections
Students explore careers in oceanography. They compare and contrast requirements for careers in the field, and determine what high school courses would help to prepare them. Finally, they create a computer-based project related to...