Texas Education Agency (TEA)
Suggested Career Cluster Activities
The sky's the limit! Scholars investigate career opportunities within a chosen career cluster. Depending on the pathway they select, they may conduct research, create a presentation, volunteer, or start a campaign ... the opportunities...
Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation
Interview a Family or Community Member: Taking Oral Histories
Young scholars gain insight into how historians record events by engaging in an oral history project. In preparation, class members brainstorm open-ended interview questions and take part in and debrief a mock interview simulation....
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Red Cross
Students examine the history and the accomplishments of the Red Cross. In this philanthropy lesson, students research the Red Cross and other volunteer organizations. Students present their findings to their classmates and determine...
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Reflecting on the Power of Volunteerism
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students contribute to society by examining volunteer activities that benefit others. Students collaborate to create a skit to promote volunteerism.
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Service Projects in the Dominican Republic
High schoolers read primary source documents and identify several kinds of service projects conducted by Peace Corps Volunteers; young scholars identify criteria used by the Peace Corps for conducting service projects for the common good.
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Our Land Lesson 2: Song Mapping
Students study the meaning of philanthropy as giving of time. talent, and treasures. They sing This Land Is Your Land while locating five of the places on a map of the United States showing that relief office are everywhere. They decide...
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Cleaning Up
Learners demonstrate how to be a philanthropist. In this philanthropy instructional activity, students read the story The Wartville Wizard and discuss ways to become a philanthropist. Learners participate in a good deed by volunteering...
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What Do I Want To Be When I Grow Up?
Young scholars explore numerous types of careers. As a class, they list people they know and the types of jobs and services that are provided. Students discuss the responsibilities of having a job. Volunteer young scholars explain...
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Reaching Across Borders In Southern Africa
Students gain a greater understanding of how political borders impact human and environmental development. Then, either individually or as a class, establish a correspondence with a Peace Corps volunteer working in Africa.
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Throw A Tennis Ball Into The Service Court
Young scholars are engaged in the introductory skills of playing tennis and develop the ability to overhead serve. They practice serving a ball over the net without a return being made. This is done to work on technique and speed of...
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Students Working in Local Historic Preservation
Students develop an appreciation of history as they volunteer their time in historical museums. In this historical perspectives activity, students work with valuable local documents as they aid the staff of selected local historical...
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Workers and the Work They Do
Young scholars view various work-related magazine pictures, choose picture randomly from stack, pantomime worker shown in picture, and answer yes or no to questions asked by classmates as they try to identify type of worker student is...
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Working in Small Groups
Pupils learn the advantages of working in small groups and how it is a lifetime skill. They learn that each member has responsibility to contribute to the plan of the group. They then learn group cooperation rules.
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Communicating At Work: Facilitating Good Communication
Young scholars identify characteristics of good communication. They role-play different scenarios from a work setting that require good communication and evaluate their efforts.
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Working With Young Children
Learners practice using tips when working with small children. They discuss reactions of children given certain situations. They also research careers that focus on the development of children.
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Volunteering
Students examine the concept of and ways to work for volunteer organizations. They discuss their own volunteer experiences, look at other options in the UK, and design posters that encourage other young people to join volunteer...
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Mother Teresa
Fourth graders examine the life of Mother Teresa and her contributions to humanitarian services. They listen to a guest speaker, listen to a teacher-led lecture, write an essay, complete journal entries, and participate in a service...
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Who Works for the Common Good in Our Community?
Learners identify community organizations that help those in need. In this service learning instructional activity, students listen to members of local service organizations present information. Learners write journal entries based on...
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Communicating at Work: Five Basic Human Needs
Students explore five "Basic Human Needs" through lecture and group discussion. They consider how these needs, such as belonging, significance, etc. are essential in the workplace and discuss how to communicate their needs.
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Bug Work
Students explore the life cycles of insects and how they interact with each other in the prairie to create a healthy ecosystem and viable food chain. They list animals or insects in their own community that are similar to the prairie...
Pace University
Community Helpers
Differentiate instruction with a unit focused on community helpers. A pre-assessment levels scholars into three groups. Learning contracts offer participants the choice of activities to complete and show what they know about specific...
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Identifying and Using Parallelism and Balance in Literature
Analyze the use of balanced sentences and parallelism in a narrative. Included in this resource is a narrative about serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kazakhstan titled, "The Train Ride Home". Middle and high schoolers review...
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I Had a Hero Lesson
Students read "I Had a Hero" a memoir written by a Peace Corps volunteer serving in the Democratic Republic of Congo. They discuss the story, respond to it in writing, complete comprehension activities and relate the account to their own...
Discovery Education
Sonar & Echolocation
A well-designed, comprehensive, and attractive slide show supports direct instruction on how sonar and echolocation work. Contained within the slides are links to interactive websites and instructions for using apps on a mobile device to...