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Writing The Resume: Skills And Accomplishments

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners 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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Making Birthday Calendars for Community Organizations and Businesses

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students create birthday calendars using The Print Shop computer program. They produce and market a product, replicating a work environment.
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How To Get the Job Done

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders identify the physical activities that are related to certain jobs.
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Searching for Dream Homes on the Internet

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students navigate the Internet and employ research skills to select their "dream home." They decode the Internet Multiple Listing Services and examine housing costs.
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Career Investigators - Jobs of Family Members

For Teachers K
Students investigate the concept of a job and how they can differ for each household. They examine a tool box filled with different tools and identify the types of jobs could be done with them. Then the teacher conducts a class discussion.
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Job Transition -- The Great Adventure

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers review how to use a digital camera. Individually, they document their work related experience and gathering new skills by taking pictures. To end the lesson, they put the photographs into a portfolio to show their progress...
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLANS--Obtaining Employment

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students examine the appropriate avenues to entry level jobs and workplaces. They practice on their English skills to obtain employment as well. In addition, an intense vocabulary of various jobs and phrases are gone over repeatedly to...
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Keyboarding Lesson - U X P

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
It's time to type! Pupils engage in a basic lesson in elementary computer keyboarding. They locate and type letters u, x, and p. Additional practice includes key stroking technique and typing with continuity.
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Keyboarding Lesson - R C

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Learners engage in a basic lesson in elementary computer keyboarding. They review the home row and the location of letters. Also, they practice conditioning and speed.
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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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Who Will I Be Tomorrow?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine various careers and character traits. They create an Affinity Chart using career survey results, compare/contrast personality traits and character traits, and discuss why character traits are important for jobs.
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Who Works Here?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders list all of the workers in their school. They interview them to find out more about each occupation.
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLANS--Level 2--Obtaining Employment

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students, while extensively reviewing the vocabulary list on the board, identify/examine/produce the proper forms of identification in preparing to obtain employment in the United States.
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Get A Life

For Teachers 9th - 12th
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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Understanding and Identifying Individual Resources

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students identify their own individual resources in the categories of financial, emotional, mental, physical, role models, knowledge of hidden rules, and support systems.
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Mini Economy

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders listen as the teacher explains the Mini Economy to be activated in the classroom in the next few weeks. They examine how they to apply for jobs, make money, determine how to save it, and how monetary mishaps occur...
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Kids at Work

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders draw pictures of the "work" they do and create a bulletin board of career categories using their parent's jobs.
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Work and Responsibility

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders investigate the responsibilities related to various careers.
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Career Resources

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore the various resources available in which they can research careers.
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What's Your Style?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore how different people have different styles of learning and which style of learning best suites them.
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Skills You Need to Succeed

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners identify basic skills needed to succeed in the world of work, including communication skills, computation skills, problem solving skills, and interpersonal skills.
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Life Cycle of the Monarch Butterfly

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders access prior knowledge of the monarch butterfly and discuss what they would like to know.  In this Monarch Butterfly instructional activity,students read Monarch Butterfly and discuss the life cycle of the butterfly....
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Workers Who Help Us At School (Part 2)

For Teachers 1st
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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Overview Of An Interview

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explain what the purpose of an interview is and know what the different types of interviews are. They utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to gain practice with a variety of interview situations.