Curated OER
How Do I Get a Job?
Learners discuss employment programs, and research volunteer, intern and employment possibilities. They create an employment plan and a working resume.
Curated OER
Creating a Job Resource Center
Students work together to create a bulletin board display for their classroom which is a Job Resource Center containing information and ideas for job search.
Curated OER
Inside Work/Outside Work
Fourth graders explore inside and outside work, what kind of people like which one, and what they would prefer.
Curated OER
Deconstructing, Decomposition and Compost
Students create and tend to an outdoor compost pile. They research about decomposition and composting. They create two activities for their peers to complete.
Curated OER
Getting to Know You
Middle schoolers create a women's history trail. They interview residents of their local community. They create information brochures on different women as well.
Curated OER
Personal Clay Box
Seventh graders discover how to assemble and finish a lidded box-like form from slabs of clay between soft and leather hard. They gain an appreciation for ceramic art.
Curated OER
Model Professionals
Students learn about one scientist's quest to make her field of canopy ecology accessible to a wider audience and to synthesize their knowledge by developing toy figures that could potentially educate children about different scientific...
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Exploring Careers in Your Community
Middle schoolers learn about careers that are available in their community by interviewing family members, friends, or other trusted adults to learn about the work they do. Includes teaching guide and student worksheets.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Meet the People in Your Neighborhood
Recognize the different occupations, and their roles, within the community.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Women in the Gilded Age
The roles available to women increased during the urbanization of America. Find out how the women's sphere of the home expanded into the community. See what new jobs were availabe to single, middle-class women, and read about how...
Online Learning Haven
Online Learning Haven: Community Helpers
Explains what a community helper is and the types of helpers in a community. Best used by the teacher during discussion with students.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Community: I Am a Scientist
This book shows some of the many different types of scientists. Includes audio narration in 6 additional languages with text in English.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Community: People at Work
Learn the names of some jobs that people do. Includes audio narration in 10 additional languages with text in English.
Majoring in Music
Majoring in Music: A Career in Choral Conducting
In this article, by Scott W. Dorsey, provides a great deal of very practical, realistic information about careers in choral conducting. In addition to outlining what the career opportunities are, the author describes in a sidebar what...
Other
The Growth of Delaware's Antebellum Free African American Community
Learn what it was like to be a free African American in the Wilmington community of Delaware during the 1800s. This article includes information about the types of jobs African Americans had, the property they owned, and the daily...
Other
Planning.org: Kids and Community
Use this site to explore how you create communities, how you live in them, and how you change them. This site also has information on the career of city planning, and activities on city planning.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: American Women and World War Ii
Read about the opportunities that women had during World War II to work in jobs that had previously been unimaginable. To assist working mothers, the first childcare programs were begun, and efforts were made to make jobs in the defense...
Other
Phmc: Keith C. Wolensky: Child Labor in Pennsylvania
A detailed leaflet descibing the history of child labor in Pennsylvania. Across the state it was never uncommon to find children working difficult and dangerous jobs in factories restaurants, on railways, in mines, as well as on farms....
Careers New Zealand
Careers New Zealand: Environmental Health Officer
Description of the career of an environmental health officer or inspector. Page includes tasks and duties, skills and knowledge, education and training, employment outlook and wages (in New Zealand), as well as a profile of a working...
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Community: Farm Tractors at Work
Learn about all the jobs that a tractor does on a farm. Includes audio narration in 6 additional languages with text in English.
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Survival of a People: Using Our Natural Resources 1875 19
The struggle of communities to inhabit small islands off the coast of Nova Scotia is profiled. Weather and poor land challenged the people but as transportation and communication expanded, the isolation and life style of the islanders...
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: The History of Shipbuilding in Marystown, Nl
The history of shipbuilding in Marystown, Newfoundland,from the earliest beginnings to present day,is profiled. Archival photographs and documents as well as audio stories are included.
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Some Boats and Boatbuilders From Central Bonavista Bay
The long, proud history of boatbuilding in Newfoundland is profiled. The exhibit showcases the earliest craft made by the Aboriginal peoples to the many other kinds of boats that came to be constructed. Archival photographs are included.