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Growing and Changing
Third graders discuss how their major life roles change as they get older and fill out a worksheet.
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Lab for Truss Design and Testing
Learners design and build their own truss. In this physics lesson, students calculate the forces and maximum load. They complete a full scale diagram of their design.
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Writing a Resume
Ninth graders research a future career and write a resume for the job. In this job skills activity, 9th graders work in groups to identify future job skills and duties. Students then write a resume for the job.
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Career Unit
In this career worksheet, students begin to investigate different types of careers and focus upon research and future planning.
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Workplace Communications
Tenth graders assess his or her skills, interests, and aptitudes to formulate a career or occupational goal. They demonstrate competencies of a quality worker (SCANS skills). Students set goals and work toward improvement as an effective...
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Hire Me! I'm Nice!
Young scholars create resumes. In this careers lesson, students look through classified ads and decide on a "job" to apply for. Young scholars write mock resumes by using professional resumes as an outline.
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Art as a profession
Learners research a possible career in computer animation. In this computer animation lesson plan, students research the amount of money you could make in computer animation and the kinds of jobs you could acquire.
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Career Development (Career Skills Awareness)
Students assess their transferable skills and relate them to occupational and lifestyle choices. They apply research skills to acquire information related to job possibilities and career interests.
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Hire Me, I’m Nice: Writing a Resume
Students explore the classified ads for employment opportunities and create a resume. In this resume writing lesson students choose a specific job, they must determine what kind of experience, education, etc. they must have to acquire...
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To Be or Not to Be...Employed
Twelfth graders brainstorm barriers to employment and role-play examples of them. They search the classified sections of newspapers for jobs that could have barriers to employment. They discuss how to overcome these barriers.
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What Women Want
Students investigate the role of women in leadership in history. They conduct research in order to find the real story. The lesson stresses the fact that women are not well known in history. There is a variety of activities in this unit...
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Prevent Child Abuse
High schoolers research documents and photographs by Lewis Hine on child labor. They examine documents and summarize them. Students complete several photograph analysis worksheets. Their research and documents begin after the Civil War.
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Recycling
Students investigate how to reduce, recycle, and reuse items in order to conserve natural resources. They complete a trash graphing activity after discussing different types of trash. Finally, the examine ways to buy recycled products to...
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Energy Plans and their Impact on You
In this energy worksheet, students read articles on the internet about energy and answer short answer questions. Students answer 10 questions total.
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Mathematics: Steps to purchase a home
Young scholars are partnered as couples who have a variety of financial realities, and must complete a real-life financial analysis to see what it would take them to purchase a home.
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Ecotourism
Students create a brochure with the perfect vacation to Costa Rica in mind. They make sure that the brochure includes environmentally responsible tourism (ecotourism) after brainstorming what might or might not be included.
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CSI: Chemistry Student Investigators
Students study chemistry. In this laboratory lesson students watch the CSI episodes and investigate their laboratory techniques and discuss what they saw.
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Business Interview
In this economics worksheet, students follow the provided outline to interview business owners about supply and demand issues. Students write interview summaries based on their findings.
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Arc Welding
Students study and are evaluated on the use of arc welding equipment. They demonstrate safety techniques by changing the lens and head gear on a welding helmet.
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What Makes A Community Sustainable
For this environment worksheet, students read three different case studies in order to apply them to the categories of finding the best possible choices to make for helping a community flourish.
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Basic Tree and Forest Measurements
Young scholars examine how trees are measured and the different methods used. For this density lesson pupils divide into groups and practice the different methods.
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Reforming Wall Street & its Booms, Bubbles & Busts
Learners examine Wall Street Reform. In this current events lesson, students read the provided articles "Why a Financial Crisis?," "Deception and Leadership Failure=Boom, Bubble, Burst," and "How Can a Future Financial Crisis be...
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee
For this famous person worksheet, students read a passage about Sir Tim Berners-Lee and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym matches,...
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"My Hero"
Young scholars investigate heroism through the ages. They complete an online Webquest, explore various websites, compare/contrast different types of heroes, answer discussion questions, and locate newspaper articles about someone they...