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More About Me
Fourth graders explore what they like to do, their interests, and their aptitudes.
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Researching Jobs
Young scholars use the internet in order to research different jobs of interest. They use the information to broaden knowledge in order to make wise career choices. Students identify the needs for each job like skills.
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Working With Animals
Second graders study careers that involve animal care such as veterinarians, zookeepers and archeologists. They create a collage of animal drawings related to the careers.
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Medals of Honor
Third graders identify their strengths and find out what careers they would do best in.
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Learning Online
Students use online tutorials. In this online learning lesson, students explore online learning websites and use tutorials to learn about a topic of their choice.
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Making Birthday Calendars for Community Organizations and Businesses
Students create birthday calendars using The Print Shop computer program. They produce and market a product, replicating a work environment.
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I Can . . .
Third graders describe some of the things they can do and what they have improved on since last year.
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Job Search Strategies: Lesson 1
Eighth graders in the 8th grade explore the process involved in looking for a job. They make a list of talents and attributes they already have and then analyze these lists to determine what new skills they may need to obtain a job in...
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Salaries
Students are engaged in the study of salaries and how they vary according to different occupations. They conduct research using a variety of resources in order to summarize the earnings potential in the human services field.
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Vocations: Archdiocese of Cincinnati
Students review virtues lived by the saints. They listen as the teacher describes the process by which a person is named a saint. Students generate a list of gifts and talents, and ways a person could use those talents in a positive,...
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Licensing Standards
Students identify current childcare licensing standards and laws. They examine regulations for licensing and become more critical of conditions in day cares and what they can possibly do to improve things as a caring, responsible citizen.
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Vocational: Candy or Medicine?
Students investigate methods of differentiating between candy, such as Tic Tacs, and actual pills. When caring for children, they discover the importance of keeping all medications, especially those which look like candy, in a safe...
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Learning, Communication, and 21st Century Skills: Students Speak Up
Students brainstorm to come up with examples of things they do with computers and write them down for the class to observe. They then raise their hands to respond to each survey question, tallying their answers on the board and engage in...
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Subject Matters
Students understand the relationship between what is learned in school and what is done in jobs. In this subject matters lesson plan, students fill out a worksheet deciding what subjects in school they would use to do certain jobs.
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Sharing Information
Students collaborate with another classroom via the Internet to share data, questions, results, and check the validity of their testing procedures.
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Familiarization Fun: Using the Media Center
Students participate in a scavenger hunt to locate the different sections of the media center and determine the purpose for each section. They build a jigsaw puzzle as they find each major section of the library such as the reference or...
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What's Your Style?
Fifth graders explore how different people have different styles of learning and which style of learning best suites them.
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Electronic Mail the Postman Delivers
Students practice E-mail programsto access information about math and science resources.
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Searching for Dream Homes on the Internet
Learners navigate the Internet and employ research skills to select their "dream home." They decode the Internet Multiple Listing Services and examine housing costs.
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Reading, Writing, And Math in Daily Living
Students, in groups, make chocolate chip cookies following a recipe.
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Guidelines for Writing Lesson Plans
Students develop procedures in planning and organizing a lesson plan. The plans are used to demonstrate a lesson.
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Who I Am - Likes
Second graders complete a "Who Am I" sheet to decide what kinds of things they like and then have a class discussion.