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How Am I Ever Going to Use This?
Pupils analyze how education relates to the selection of college majors, the job market, and future training. For this career exploration lesson, students search an occupation and employment database for a specific school subject. Pupils...
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Writing The Resume: Skills And Accomplishments
Students spend time listing the things they are good at. In this exercise, there are no limits; students are encouraged to list all types of skills. They focus on those skills and accomplishments that are directly related to their job...
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Marketing Occupations
Students investigate the practice of sexual harassment in the workplace. They watch a video of a sexual harassment situation and classify the different categories of behavior that are included in sexual harassment. Then students take a...
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How Times Have Changed
Fifth graders work in small groups to compile job changes. They use data from the list of changes that the group generated together. Students analyze the data to determine: categories of changes, patterns or trends of changes, and future...
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Exploration, Development and Planning for the Future
Students research their strengths and weaknesses and helps them make a career choice.
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Writing A Resume
Pupils practice the skill of writing a resume that reflects professional presentation. They use a worksheet that is used for writing guidelines. The tool is effective for the scaffolding of different ability levels. Then students...
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Career Explorations and Personal Finance
High schoolers use various search engines and Web sites to find out information for a career they think they might like to pursue. They present their information to the class in an oral report.
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Creating an Effective Resume
Students assess their skills, then document their employment history by preparing a resume.
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Life Long Learning
Twelfth graders complete a research activity to learn about post-secondary education and possible career paths. In this college and career search instructional activity, 12th graders locate colleges of interest on a map and explore...
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Get A Life
Students 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 to...
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Choose Your Attitude
Learners explore how attitude can make a difference in how they progress and become successful. They view movie clips and discuss how attitudes can change and influence people's lives. Students look at characteristics that employers look...
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Apply Now
Learners practice properly filling out an application. For this application lesson, students discuss the purpose of filling out an application form and the importance of reading the form first before writing anything. Learners gather...
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Career Preparation
Young scholars 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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Networking Bingo
A game of Bingo gets scholars networking. Independently, participants complete the worksheet responding to each applicable prompt. With the group, peers roam the room to network in search of similar answers.
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Using the Public Library for Career Search
Learners make informed decisions when selecting a career.
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Interview a Professional: Professional Sports
High schoolers research a career featured on a career website. They email an expert in the field of their choice. They conduct a questionnaire of the expert and record their findings. They collate their information and write a written...
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Discover the Similarities: Marine Mammal Rescue
Learners analyze the the similarities of their own daily schedule, processes and procedures and those used at work. They research the career of marine mammal rescue and email questions to a career expert. They construct a display and...
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Skills Employers Want - Do You Have Them?
Students complete a self-assessment on their employability skills, then discuss how they can improve those competencies that need improvement regarding success in school, jobs, and their personal lives.
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Trades People
Students discuss the names of the people who work on various stuctures. They examine the many different roles people in construction can have. They match tools with the correct job and sing songs about workers.
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Who Works for Nonprofit Organizations? (6-8)
Students explore career opportunities in the nonprofit sector. In this career exploration lesson, students listen to guest speakers who work for nonprofit organizations explain their jobs. Students also examine the role of nonprofit...
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Badges of Pride
Fifth graders investigate jobs and how people identify with their job. In this labor lesson, 5th graders create a book from illustrations of various jobs. Students read an article about labor and answer questions about the article....
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Silly School vs. Super School
Students explore the importance of classroom jobs. They observe a puppet who is irresponsible and never gets her work completed and then discuss whether or not this puppet should be given a classroom job. As a class, they examine the...
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Workers Who Help Us At School (Part 2)
First graders identify the roles and responsibilities of various school workers. They identify the skills that school workers need to complete their jobs. Students discuss what a role is. They discuss the term responsibility.
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ESOL Obtain Employment
Students discuss the items needed to be prepared for a job interview. They generate a list of action verbs needed to prepare a resume of their own. They construct a cover letter and match it to an ad in the newspaper.