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Career Development (Career Skills Awareness)
Pupils assess their transferable skills and relate them to occupational and lifestyle choices. They apply research skills to acquire information related to job possibilities and career interests.
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Create and Locate Your Own Business
High schoolers simulate the creation of their own business. Using the internet and database exploration, they research community profiles and select a business. Pupils define the target market and investigate a business location. ...
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Prize-Winning Profiles
Students read a profile of Luiz Inácio da Silva, the currently favored presidential candidate in Brazil. They use this article as a model for writing their own profiles of noteworthy people recently featured in the news.
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Telling Our Own Stories
Explore online profiles and social media with your middle and high school classes. Use blogs to inspire your class to craft a well-written, thoughtful response to a prompt you give. A few example prompts are given.
Wind Wise Education
Where is it Windy?
How is the wind up there? The class builds a topography model using materials available in the classroom, then place wind flags in different locations on the landscape. Using a fan as a wind source, pupils collect data about how wind...
WindWise Education
Can We Reduce Risk to Bats?
It is just batty! A resource outlines a case study scenario of reducing the risk to bats. Teams learn about the bat populations in the area of the wind farm, then research and propose a solution.
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Machine Technology
Students work in pairs to manufacture a product for a potential customer. They interview potential customers and collect data. Students develop a customer interview profile. They manufacture drill drift part to customer's specifications...
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WORKING HARD OR HARDLY WORKING
Students research a specific career and have the opportunity to gain new information, utilize electronic technology, and write a grade-level appropriate paper.
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A Volunteer, Please
Students analyze the need for volunteers and how volunteering can help them prepare for the world of work. They research a career oriented website that has specifications of volunteer work. They determine the personal characteristics...
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Get A Life
High schoolers explore choosing a career and living on a budget. They receive an alternative identity and must make choices and decisions based upon given situations. Students research possible solutions, and use spreadsheet technology...
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Gold Mountain: Real Gold or Fool's Gold
High schoolers participate in a meeting of one of the Six Companies that serves the needs of Chineese immigrants to California in the 1840's. Jobs are researched, profiles filed, posters designed, Chinese immigrant life examined in this...
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Career Investigation
Students explore the avenues of a career possibility they are interested in. They research and evaluate job in student career interest area. Students explore the avenues of a career possibility using an interest profiler.
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Creating a Worm Using a Swept Path
Who wouldn't want to know how to create a worm using a swept path? Learners watch as you demonstrate how to create a worm that will mate with worm gear in order to create a helical path. Basically, they learn the first step in installing...
US House of Representatives
Black Americans in Congress Speak Their Mind
To conclude their study of Black Americans in Congress, groups select a statement made by one of the Members, examine the Member's profile on the provided link, and create a display that includes state represented, years of service, an...
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Résumé Rights
Students build a practical resume using Microsoft Word R??sum?? Wizard. Hints useful for avoiding "r??sum?? wrongs" helps them develop the right r??sum?? for their job hunting needs.
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Employer - Employee Expectations
Students role play for job expectations. In this job planning lesson plan, students work in groups to write a help wanted ad. They discuss the expectations of the employer and the employee.
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Seven Clues To Help You in Getting Started
In this career worksheet, students work through the sheet that outlines seven practical guideline questions for starting the task of going to college.
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Personal Learning Profile
Young scholars investigate the life of Ghandi in order to find out how they learn. The choice of Ghandi was made because many students are not familar with him. Then student engage in different modalities of learning and take learning...
Workforce Solutions
Reality Check
Talk about a reality check! High schoolers complete a lifestyle survey indicating their preference for housing, entertainment, etc., and then calculate the salary required to support those choices. Finally, they research the types of...
Workforce Solutions
30 Seconds
Attention spans are short, but memories are long. Job seekers are challenged to develop a 30-second commercial that highlights their strengths in a job interview.
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Why is it important to earn a GED?
Students write a profile describing themselves. They access the internet site and complete the "Self-appraisal" section called "Employment Search Readiness Inventory." Students look at other options provided by this site to find other...
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Carerrs in Song And Dance
Students write a job posting for a career in the performing arts. They view a Discovery Channel video as an introduction to the types of performing art careers are possible. They choose one that they are most interested in to research on...
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Careers in Scientific and Technical Visualization
Students research a career path in scientific and technical visualization. They prepare a Career Web Page about the career path they chose. The web pages be compiled into an electronic resource for future students.
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African Americans in Science
Students explore the careers of prominent African Americans in science, mathematics, and technology. They use The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences website, which includes profiles of past and present African Americans...