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Volunteering as Good Work
Students discuss the various jobs at a school. In this school jobs instructional activity, students recognize the way people in the school are helped by others. Students are assigned a job and write about the help of others. Students...
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What's an Ecotect?
In this future jobs worksheet, students use their creative thinking to select 10 job titles from a list and write a description for each job title. Students discuss as a class what good descriptions are and they discuss life in the future.
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Manufacturing in Northern Ireland
In this manufacturing worksheet, students match words from a word bank to one of two pictures showing work environments, categorize jobs under the categories of primary, secondary, and tertiary, then write short descriptions about the...
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Showtime! Profit or Non
Students perform a production. In this job activity, students perform the production they created about jobs in the profit and nonprofit sectors. Students write an essay describing the advantages and disadvantages of working in these...
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Who Will Wear the Hat? Who Will Use the Tool?
Young scholars determine that there are nontraditional careers for their gender. In this gender equity lesson, students along with the guidance counselor discuss different jobs and vocations by looking at associated tools and props....
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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. In this nontraditional careers lesson, students research a nontraditional career and shadow the job in the...
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How Busy Are Bees?
Learners research the jobs of bees. In this timeline lesson, students map out each of the six different jobs a worker bee does in its lifetime. They create a timeline and then retell the job descriptions.
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Global Job Hopping
Students examine basic trade terms and data about the economies of countries increasingly used as outsources for American jobs.
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When Are We Ever Going to USE This MATH?
Fourth graders engage in discussion of various occupations and learn where math fits into the scheme of things. They are diagnostically assessed to determine proficiency in computer, writing, and problem-solving mathematical skills set...
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Vocabulary Lists
In this Language Arts instructional activity, students discover the definitions to 3 lists of vocabulary words. The lists are organized by the following categories: countries and occupations, nationalities and languages, and...
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Hey, Get a Job! A Teen Guide for Getting and Keeping a Job
Learners research the job marketplace and try to find a job for themselves. In this job search lesson, students make a list of possible job sites, read the Child Labor Laws, and complete the application process for a job. Learners create...
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Working Conditions in the Industrial Age
High schoolers examine working conditions during the Industrial boom. In this Industrialization lesson, students analyze primary sources in order to chart the responsibilities of workers in industrial jobs.
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Primary History Children of Victorian Britain Extension Activity - Other Jobs Children Did
In this Victorian Britain learning exercise, learners sharpen their research skills as they study the history of the children who worked in England. Students select 1, 2, 3, or 4 extension projects to complete.
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Language Arts and Careers
Fourth graders discuss the importance of grammar skills in job interviews. They role-play employers and prospective employees in a mock job interview. They discuss good and bad grammar that was used and outcomes that could come from...
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Paws in Jobland: Guessing Game
Students hone their communication and presentation skills. In this career lesson plan, students understand the different activities people do as part of their work while developing recall capabilities.
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Changing Jobs
In this online/interactive vocabulary usage learning exercise, students fill in the blanks using the vocabulary words and phrases in the list and click the "check" button to check their answers. Students write 10 answers.
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Visiting the Medical Fields
Students act as medical pioneers to establish a clinic in an under served area.t They work in teams of two to complete a portfolio about their clinic and examine new treatments in various area of medicine.
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Jobs in the 21st Century
Students understand the tools that will be used in the lab in the 21st century. In this job preparation lesson, students experiment and understand how to use lab equipment. Students will write about the lab tools they've experimented...
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Interviewing Skills
Students participate in mock interviews. In this interview skills activity, students prepare for a mock interview by following the provided activity procedures, participate in the evaluated interview, and write Thank You letters to...
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Job Prompt Entries
Students explore the role of journal writing. In this written communication lesson, students discuss the purpose of journals as well as cohesive devices. Students then respond to 2 writing prompts that require them to write using...
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Working: The Law
Learners read a lesson on working and getting a job in Minnesota. They complete a worksheet, which includes completing a sample job application.
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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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Curricula Vitae (CVs) versus Resumes
The term curricula vitae might sound more sophisticated than the term resumes, but that doesn't mean it's the preferred document to send to potential employers. As explained in a handout on curricula vitae (CV) versus resumes, part of a...
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Careers in Mining
Students study about natural resources and the decreasing amount. They observe the need for trained scientists and engineers. Finally, they take a small test to determine the areas of science they find most interesting.
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