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"Dreaming of Success" Unit
High schoolers recognize the importance of planning for the future. They think about and project themselves into the future. Students become aware that everyone encounters challenges in life and that they can be met and obstacles can be...
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Exploring Careers
Seventh graders investigate their career aptitudes and interests through a scavenger hunt. They display their choices in Excel spreadsheets.
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A Place for Me in the Field of Music
Second graders listen to interviews with career musicians. They, in groups, present to classmates the life, music, inspiration, and goals of a favorite composer, performer, or group.
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High Performance in Agriculture Science: Graduates Outperform Others
Students plan for their future by exploring occupational experience programs.In this career activity students list activities that they will participate in in the future and complete a career exploration project.
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Alicia Keys, Songs in A Minor
Learners watch a video about Alicia Keys and discuss the business side of her career. Groups role-play producers for her new album taking on the responsibility for all aspects, including budgets, contracts, song production, and advertising.
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4-h Veterinary Science Activity Page
The 4-H teaches students about agriculture, health, and animal care - the last of which is the focus of this activity. From dogs and cats to pigs and hedgehogs, this worksheet provides helpful tips for caring for animals, as well as...
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Digital Video Interviews
Students explore the jobs in their community. In this career education lesson plan, students interview a community member about his or her job in the community. Students video the interview.
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Exile: Cuba and the United States
Students gain an understanding of U.S./Cuban Relations. In this world history lesson plan, students examine the events of the Cuban revolution and their effect on U.S.-Cuban relations and U.S. foreign policy.
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4-H Veterinary Science Activity Page- Life Skill
In this veterinary science activity page worksheet, learners focus on the life skills associated with ethical decision making. They describe their favorite pet animal, how to care for their pet based on its needs, complete 14 true or...
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Journalist Japes
Students explore the career of a journalist. In this careers lesson plan, the teacher introduces the work of a journalist, then students use a worksheet as a springboard for a journalism activity as they write a news article about a...
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Freshwater Sharks Bite Children at 35th Beach. A Play
Students delve into a study of sharks. In this science lesson plan, students examine the many different scientific occupations, as well as some possible specializations therein, and perhaps a little bit of other life considerations,...
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Gender Equity in Jobs
Students discuss jobs/roles in everyday life. In this social science lesson, students examine the fact that jobs or roles that were once gender specific no longer are. Students realize that any gender can have any job as long as that...
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Getting a Job!
Twelfth graders are given the tools to create a presentation about a career of interest to them. Individually, they develop a multi-media presentation about their career and the education needed to obtain it. To end the lesson, they...
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Picture Your Future
Fifth graders use Career-O-Rom-A interactive software to investigate various careers in which they are interested. They examine the clothing associated with their career choices and workplaces. They list ten careers which still appeal...
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So You Want To Be A...
Students listen to a book about careers and occupations before they research their own career choice using a variety of resources. They complete a KWL chart and Job Research worksheet and design a Career Character Poster that shows them...
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Functional Skills Worksheet
For this career worksheet, students take a personal assessment of workplace skills. They apply them to a personal strengths survey to create a holistic picture of talents.
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Cool Stuff I've Done!
Sixth graders reflect on the life experiences they have had and discover how those experiences may be classified on a resume. They begin brainstorming their life experiences and writing each one on a sticky note. At end of brainstorming...
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Red Hot Resume!!
Sixth graders identify personal strengths and the importance of highlighting their talents when writing a resume. They write a reflection narrative on "Cool Stuff I Can Do." They generate the information for the narrative from class...
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Who Will Get the Job?
Seventh graders demonstrate their ability to identify interview skills that lead to success in the job-seeking process by participating in and observing an interview with an employer. Students also use a checklist to validate their...
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Understanding the Risk of Substance Abuse Unit
Teenage brains are different! Understanding that the teenage brain is still developing and thus more impacted by substance abuse is the key concept in a three-lesson high school health unit. Participants learn about how the brain and...
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Read and Write about It
Reading informational text is a skill that transcends subjects and grade levels. Practice reading about different topics in various formats with a language arts lesson that includes opportunities for writing and research as well.
Global Oneness Project
Deconstructing Consumerism
To increase awareness and launch a discussion of consumerism, class members view What Would It Look Like, a 25 minute film of images that capture the global effects of the consumption of goods. Viewers make a list of the images that...
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Rocket Science
Students examine what it takes to be a rocket scientist and other related careers. In this rockets lesson plan students use the Internet to do their research.
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Marketing a Child Care Service
Students explore the concepts of marketing (product, promotion, price, place) through the process of promoting themselves as child care providers. They explain the four P's of Marketing and how they are used in business and in society....