Macmillan Education
Organising Your Studies
What's the best way to study? Well, it depends. . . Session two of a 23-activity life skills series focuses on a variety of study skills strategies and suggests when/why to choose one over another.
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Know Yourself
After completing a short self-assessment, partners use the provided questions and take turns acting as life coaches.
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Get Organised
The focus of the first lesson in a 23-lesson life skills unit is on getting organized. The worksheets ask users to identify areas of their lives were they need more organization and then offer suggestions and solutions.
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Positive and Creative Thinking
Positive thinking can be powerful. The exercises on these worksheets will encourage class members to be creative, resourceful, and optimistic.
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What Do You See?
Encourage learners to develop greater self-awareness and an understanding of perception versus reality. Here you'll find a life skills lesson that includes worksheets, discussion, and brainstorming activities on the topic of how we see...
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Teamwork
Learners develop self-awareness and discuss the importance of cooperation and communication through worksheets and hands-on, collaborative activities.
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Self-Awareness and Respect
The eighth in a series of 23 life skills exercises focuses on self-awareness and respect. Groups record, on the provided worksheets, words and phrases that signal respect, and generate lists of behaviors that signal respect.
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Challenging Assumptions
After experiencing how quick and easy it is to make judgments as part of an opening activity, learners discuss the concept of a stereotype and the need to think critically and question our immediate assumptions.
University of Galway
Study Skills: Managing Your Learning
The National University of Ireland presents this study skills, time management, and life skills guide loaded with sage advice about motivation, goal setting, time management, effective study, and exam preparation.
Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services
Leadership Activities
Implementing culture change within an existing organization begins with effective leadership. Scholars explore organizational leadership by reading and discussing case studies about nursing homes. They also write personal mission...
Insurance Zebra
Insurance Curriculum for Middle and High School Teachers
Liability, deductible, premium ... what do these words mean, and how do they relate to insurance? Scholars complete a pre-test, matching vocabulary activity, and insurance timeline worksheet and become familiar with these terms. Next,...
Purdue University
Email Etiquette for Students
What's the best way to discuss a problem or concern with a professor? Using a helpful PowerPoint, scholars learn how to use e-mail to communicate effectively with their instructors. They discover good and bad e-mail topics, appropriate...
Open Oregon Educational Resources
Digital Foundations: Introduction to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Cloud, Revised Edition
How can Adobe Creative Cloud enhance digital art and media design? Readers explore just that with the Digital Foundations eBook. They learn how to source images and how to create symmetry and asymmetry in their digital designs. They also...
Curated OER
Application Skills, Job Hunting, Social Skills/Cooperation
Learners recognize vocabulary necessary for applying for a job, fill out a job application and provide personal information necessary for applying for a job. They spell the names of references and tell ways of networking to improve job...
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Hair Styles/ Do You Stereotype?
In this career activity, students examine the words and determine if each type of person has either long or short hairstyles.
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Job Shadow/Internship
Students identify a career field to research and complete a job shadow activity. In this career exploration lesson plan, students brainstorm a list of careers they are interested in and research them. Students participate in a job shadow...
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Hairdressers Vocabulary Cards
For this career worksheet, students create vocabulary cards by cutting them out and then looking up the definitions to write on the back.
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The Best Hairdo For Your Face
In this career activity, students read the article that is based upon finding the best hairstyle suited for particular types of faces.
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Guest Speakers
Students identify a guest speaker to come to their class and discuss potential careers. In this career exploration activity, students identify a career they are interested in and invite a guest speaker to visit their class. Students...
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Race into Reading
Students create a career exploration experience for elementary students. In this career exploration activity, students select a career field d to read about to elementary children. Students then present the Career Exploration Day to the...
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Work, What are My Options
Pupils explore job opportunities in their chosen career field. In this career exploration instructional activity, students complete a portfolio using the career investigation in the STAR event link. Pupils present the project to the...
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Important Spellings For Hairdressers
In this career worksheet, students spell the words correctly that are related to the practice of being a hairdresser. The answers are written in the graphic organizer.
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Skimming and Scanning Information
In this career worksheet, students practice the real life application of reading skills. They specifically cover the tasks of skimming and scanning a text.
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Job Shadow Experience
Students in a Business Management and Administrative Services program job shadow for 8 hours with a business. They conduct an interview with a working employee during the job shadow experience and then prepare a PowerPoint presentation...