This lesson requires students to select a career and explore the requirements for their potential job. They will work with a reality life situation of married versus single, number of children and challenge events. Students will...

This unit is to expose students to different types of earnings, determine gross earning, calculate payroll deductions, and net pay. This project will have students journalize payment of payroll, employer payroll taxes, and payment of...

This applet will allow you to investigate savings account earnings, credit card debt, and a stock market simulation.

The United States Department of Labor provides comprehensive statistics on everything related to unemployment at the state, national, and international levels. Data is available for past years as well.

Extensive information about the nursing career as well as information on many other careers. The search engine can be used to find any career listed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Information on various fields of financial services. Read about the job description, education, working conditions, job outlook, wages, and much more.

Complete description of the work of pest controllers, including nature of the work, education and preparation, employment outlook, and wages.

Comprehensive U.S. Department of Labor report of the occupation that includes nursery, landscape, grounds, and greenhouse laborers. Also includes working conditions, wages, outlook, and career preparation.

This Bureau of Labor Statistics site tells what occupational therapists do and the types of people they work with. Describes their working conditions, job opportunities and salary. Tells qualifications needed to become an occupational...

Published by the Department of Labor, this site details the Radiologic Technician Career. Employment outlook, and projections are provided with training and qualifications data.

Part of the National Institutes of Health, this site is dedicated to information about the Physical Therapist career.

Complete description of careers in logging, including loggers, fallers, buckers, equipment operators, choke setters and riggers, sorters, log graders and scalers, and others who work in the wood harvesting occupations. Page contains...

Occupational outlook for all doctors that details expected job market in future, salary, working conditions, etc.

Describes opportunity occupations, jobs that don't require a bachelor's degree and pay at least the national annual median wage. It identifies top opportunity occupations in six southeastern states and helps students see clearly the...

The U.S. Department of Labor provides statistics on the careers of emergency medical technicians and paramedics.

The Wise Pockets World Schoolhouse presents a dozen lesson plans based on children's books and teaching money management. All include lesson descriptions, cross-curricular connections, instructional objectives, activity sheets,...

This extensive lesson plan uses the Children's Literature book "A Chair for My Mother," by Vera B. Williams to teach the concepts of saving and reaching a goal. Primary students are the target for this lesson.

This multipart lesson plan the cost of opportunities when you have limited resources. It uses the hilarious children's book, "Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday" by Judith Viorst to drive the lesson home.

This site provides information for those interested in the occupation of Pharmacy Technician. Included is a general job description as well as educational and training requirements.

This page contains dozens of links on information about the history of landscape architecture.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides everything you need to know on the career of an occupational health and safety specialist and technician.

CCH Business Owner's Toolkit answers questions about self-employment taxes because "even if you don't hire anyone else to help you run your business, you're always going to have at least one employee, and that would be yourself."

The following lessons provide guidance, lesson plans, and activities for teachers interested in introducing financial literacy concepts to students in grades K-6.

This resource provides a detailed overview of the 16th amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Content includes a focus on income tax, the history and purpose of the amendment, and the incomes subject to taxation.