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Problem-Solving for Employment Barriers

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students examine different employment opportunities and possible barriers that may occur.  In this career skills lesson students discuss different barriers and work in groups to overcome these. 
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ESOL Obtaining Employment

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students discuss what experience is needed for each job on a list of careers. They discuss skills needed for each job on the same list. They identify verbs in both the past and present tense associated with each skill. They work in...
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Project H.O.P.E. (Highlighting Opportunities for Potential Employment)

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore career paths by creating a job scrapbook.  In this employment lesson, students discuss what types of skills employers look for in the job market.  Students decide on a career they would like to explore by...
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Science and Careers

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students investigate how knowledge of science influences people in their daily lives, specifically in their careers. Students conduct interviews with an individual in a science or technology career as part of their research on the impact...
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Beary O'Mometer Learns About Careers In Meteorology

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore the field of meteorology. In this meteorology lesson, students explore weather-related careers as they research the field of study as well as various weather concepts. Students interview meteorologists, write business...
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Job Hiring...Who's the best candidate?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners, working in teams, assume they are the newly hired research director of a biotech firm interviewing the top two candidates for the position of research scientist. They evaluate the candidates and decide who should be hired based...
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Interview a Professional: Marine Mammal Rescue

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners choose a career featured on the school to career website. They research the career and email an expert in the field of their choice. They answer a series of questions and write a written report on their findings and present...
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The Kindness Company

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners organize themselves into a simulated company complete with applications, interviews and training. They identify a community need they can fulfill related to cooking or sewing and work to make and deliver the designated product.
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Back In The "Old Days"

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders collect data during their worker interviews while in groups to compile job changes. They analyze the data to determine the categories of changes, patterns/trends of change and future projections. Each group then develops a...
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How Times Have Changed

For Teachers 5th
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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The World of Work

For Teachers 5th - 8th
After having a discussion about skills they have already acquired in school, pupils imagine that they are leaving school to go look for a job. They discuss what kind of job they would look for, and what they would tell about themselves...
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Lights, Camera, Campaign

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students employ their technology skills to produce campaign commercials. In this political campaign lesson, students discover the appropriate uses of video cameras and create fictitious campaign commercials.
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Religion in Public Schools

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the presence of religion in public institutions. In this ethics lesson, students focus on one aspect of the presence of religion in public institutions, and the controversy surrounding religion in the public schools....
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Intermediate Paragraph Correction #2

For Students 4th - 6th
Editing skills are practiced in this language arts worksheet. Students read 2 paragraphs, locate the mistakes numbered in each sentence, and choose the multiple choice answer that corrects each mistake.
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The Coffee House

For Teachers 6th
Students study and write poetry. In this poetry project, students read, analyze, and produce poetry. Students examine and analyze fifteen poems and at the culmination of the unit, perform one of their poems for an audience.
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Writing an Effective Resume

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Rating prospective teacher candidates based on sample resumes opens this discussion of effective business communication. After generating a list of interview candidates based on their resumes, pupils justify their choices. A study of...
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Jobs and Contracts

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine careers and the skills they need for them.
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Health-related Illnesses/Job Opportunities in the Health Field

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Pupils investigate, discuss and write about health related illnesses common among teenagers in this series of lessons. They research health related careers of interest to them
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Who Really Gets Hired?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders ask appropriate questions about what an employer looks for in an employee and how he or she verifies information. They compare their criteria for employees with what they have been taught from the businessperson. Students...
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Rosie the Riveeter and Mary the Munitions Worker

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders study the role that places like the Joliet Arsenal played in how women were view in American society during and after World War II. They interview a person from the World War II era about the job they performed and how...
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To Be or Not To Be - Career Choice

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders conduct an interview and research information associated with the career of their choice.
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To Be or Not To Be

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate and conduct an interview associated with a career they are considering. They present the information in an expository writing piece using a different point of view.
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Paws in Jobland: Lesson Plan 25 - People in our School

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students brainstorm a list of jobs that exist in their own school and its surrounding environment. In this lesson on careers, students create a map of the school and locate on the map where each job takes place. Next, the class divides...
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Making Money

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this money skills worksheet, students answer financial questions based on their own money situation. Studetns complete seven pages of related activities.

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