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Reading Help Wanted Ads
Students explore employment by analyzing the newspaper. In this wanted ads lesson, students identify the importance of job selection and job growth while reading entries in the wanted ads for employment opportunities. Students answer...
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Rubber Band Racers
Students create rubber band band powered cars. In this engineering activity, students are given common materials in order to create their own car. They measure distance and speed of different designs.
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Lesson: Design a Sturdy Paper Table
Student create a table with paper legs. In this engineering lesson, students use rolled paper to create table legs and attempt a variety of designs to find one that will hold a textbook. They work in small groups, brainstorm and attempt...
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Agriculture- It's More Than You Think
Learners research careers in agriculture. In this agricultural lesson, students discover the various careers related to agriculture. Learners construct resumes and "apply" for agricultural jobs.
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Worksheet for Researching Occupations
In this careers worksheet, students research jobs they are interested in and then fill in a graphic organizer with details about the career.
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Weighted Objectives Table and Optimum Mix Sheet
Students analyze data and determine an appropriate concrete mixture. In this technical solutions lesson, students discuss weighted objectives, review sample scenarios, and rate concrete recipes to identify how well water infiltrates....
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Visual Arts Careers
What kind of careers are there in the art field? Create an arts occupation book with your class while investigating several art careers. Learners include samples in their book of the types of art each career produces.
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Travel Agencies
Students explore the job responsibilities of a travel agent. In this career lesson, students discuss and role-play specific details of what a travel agent must do at the beginning of the day prior to opening.
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Interviewing Skills
Students participate in mock interviews. In this interview skills instructional activity, students prepare for a mock interview by following the provided instructional activity procedures, participate in the evaluated interview, and...
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Cooking Lesson About Goods for Entrepreneur Lesson
Fourth graders experience how businesses are started. In this goods and services lesson plan, 4th graders learn the story of an Indiana man who started his own chocolate business. Students watch a video about his life and discuss...
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Entrepreneurs in History
Students examine the contributions of American entrepreneurs. In this industrialization lesson, students complete the provided handouts to determine how Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Hill, and Rockefeller impacted American society. Students...
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Woman Power!!! Mathematics Camp
Students explore mathematics by researching stereotypes. In this gender bias instructional activity, students participate in discussions where they identify traditional careers according to their own gender. Female students attend summer...
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Who will wear hats? who will use the tools?
Students discuss careers and gender equity in each career. In this gender equity lesson, students research a job of interest and the resources available to help them work in that career. Students present an group report orally.
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Choosing A Career - Without Limitations
Young scholars examine their views on gender bias in the classroom. In this gender bias/gender equity lesson plan, students define non-traditional career areas for their gender. They discuss their perception of "male and female" jobs...
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English Exercises: Jobs and Professions
In this ESL worksheet, students listen and watch a YouTube clip of an animated song about jobs. Students complete 100 exercises in an online quiz. Included are: matching jobs with pictures, a word search, and fill in the blank.
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Architects and Engineers
Learners examine the roles of architects and engineers. In this engineering instructional activity, students design a parking garage based on a descriptive scenario. Learners compare how architects and engineers work together on...
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English Exercises - Jobs
In this job naming interactive instructional activity, students fill in 12 blanks by naming the job that is shown in each clip art picture. They submit their answers using the "Done" button.
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Identification of Career Choices
Student examine gender in career choices. In this career lesson plan, learners are given a list of careers and asked to put them in groups of male. female, and neutral. Students also look through magazines and cut out pictures of people...
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Carpentry: merit badge
In this carpentry activity, students fill out short answer questions using their workbook about carpentry in order to get a merit badge. Students complete 6 questions total.
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Men, Women, and Careers
Teach young learners that they can have any job they want, no matter their gender! An elementary lesson emphasizes that while some jobs may be more closely associated with men or with women, people of either gender can complete...
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Ethics on the Job
Students examine ethics in the workplace. In this Career and leadership lesson, students will pair up to discuss various issues surrounding workplace ethics. This lesson includes 3 different activities, and assessment and necessary...
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Discover America
Students write letters to Chambers of Commerce in different geographic locations in America to find out what kind of career opportunities present themselves in those locations. In this career lesson plan, students also put their findings...
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Taking the Heat
Students measure the heat absorbed by different materials and learn why engineers need to know how different materials story thermal energy when designing buildings. In this heat capacity lesson plan, students use a thermometer to...
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A Visit To The Station
Students discuss the role of the firefighter. In this firefighter lesson, students visit a fire station and see the equipment that firefighters use. They complete a math page on numbers and write a journal entry describing their fire...