Career Connections | Marketing Specialist

Challenge your classes to design and market a new product. Collaborative groups use geometry skills to create packaging for their products. Finally, they plan a marketing strategy to present to a marketing specialist.

Students build and test structures that can best withstand earthquakes. They create their structures from playdough, cornstarch, grape-nuts and popsicle sticks and place their structures on a "shake table."

Students study the careers available in the agricultural field. For this agriculture field lesson, students study the jobs required to getting a food product into someone's kitchen. Students select an agriculture career from a list and...

Young economists explore the price-to-earnings ratio (and the earning-to-price ratio) as Sal explores the case study from previous videos. He lays out the market capitalization for the company and the price per share, explaining that it...

Understanding how consumers think is key to staying in business. Show high schoolers how their buying behavior really does affect the way the economy works with an informative video from Crash Course Economics. The video illustrates the...

Between 1957 and 1962, thousands of infants born in Canada, Great Britain, and Germany had serious deformities due to thalidomide, a drug marketed to pregnant women as a mild sleeping aid and to relieve pregnancy nausea. However, the...

Hear a marketing specialist from Macy's explain how he successfully uses his social media skills to recruit top employees and help promote the company's brand nationwide in this career video. [5:19]

With all the information and technology we offer to our learners, we can sometimes neglect the importance of directing them on how to best use these opportunities. In this video, Seth Godin encourages his audience to 1) tell a story to...

Students consider various economic terms, examine the impact of subsidies on farmers and other industries, write essays explaining the subsidy process, and illustrate through posters how subsidies affect both domestic and foreign markets.

Unfortunately, the article for which this resource was written is not available. You can, however, find another current document on agriculture and urban development for your class to read together, and then still follow the suggested...