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Environmental Science: Environmental Science Careers
Explore this list of close to fifty science careers with a connection and focus on environmental science. Also compare average salaries of each.
Read Works
Read Works: What Is a Crossing Guard?
[Free Registration/Login Required] Intended to support early elementary students' reading comprehension, the meaning of the term "crossing guard" is explained in this informational text. Visual cues are provided to support the passage...
Read Works
Read Works: All in a Day's Work
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses some possible jobs associated with health care. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
Read Works
Read Works: A Community of People
[Free Registration/Login Required] Intended to support early elementary students' reading comprehension, the meaning of the word "community" is explained in an informational text. Visual cues are provided to support the passage and...
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Timeline: Steve Jobs: The Man at Apple's Core
NPR commemorates the life and legacy of innovator and entrepreneur Steve Jobs.
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Virginia Career View: Draw and Learn
Use the mouse to draw aspects of different occupations, including veterinarians and carpenters.
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Virginia Career View: Matching Jobs With Tools
Click and drag pictures of tools to the correct occupation. Print the exercise when finished.
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Virginia Career View: A Job for Me
Type, write, or draw a description of a job that would be interesting to do.
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Virginia Career View: Career Start
Click on the picture that doesn't belong. Learn about the tools of various occupations.
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Virginia Career View: What Do You Like?
Answer questions about the things you like and then draw or write what you would like to do when you grow up.
American Psychological Association
Apa: Interesting Careers in Psychology
Focus on non-academic careers for scientific psychologists. Provides links to several scientific psychologists who explain how they secured a job in a nontraditional setting outside the "lab" or "university setting."
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Horticultural Worker I
Learn about what horticultural workers do and the skills that are required to perform this work.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Income Distribution
This video teaches the concept of Income Distribution. Income distribution refers to how the total income earned ends up divided over members of the economy. The website contains an interactive quiz and links for related lesson plans.
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The Mint: Take the Entrepreneur Challenge
Answer a series of questions to help decide if you would be a good entrepreneur.
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Nation Job: Computers
Site gives actual job postings for Network Control Operator and other areas with descriptions, locations and salaries.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Occupations Find It! Quiz
Students use the online "Little Explorers" picture dictionary to search for the occupations described in a series of clues. This exercise, which promotes dictionary use, deductive reasoning, and vocabulary building, would work well with...
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Designer Job Openings: Set, Lighting, Costumes
Updated often, or so it says, check here for available jobs in these areas, plus browse the listings to see what the requirements are of a job you think you might be interested in, if only for information. Remember these listings have...
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History of Science Society
Home page for a group dedicated to understanding science, technology, medicine, and their interactions with society in their historical context.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Why Do People Have Jobs
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart not only introduces the importance of Jobs at home and in our community it is a great starter for Career Day at school. The lesson can extend to 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade towards...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: French Household Chores
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart resource was created for a French foreign language class. The content topic is French: household chores
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State of Michigan: Jobs
Michigan's Department of Civil Service has information on jobs, internships, resumes, and more.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Visual Artists
This site provides information about various careers in the visual arts, including the nature of the work, working conditions, employment options, training, job outlook, earnings, and related occupations.
Lingolex
Lingolex.com: The Vocabulary of Jobs and Professions in English and Spanish
A glossary of specific occupational and professional terms translated with English and Spanish equivalents.
Curated OER
Clip Art by Phillip Martin: Bank Teller
Cartoon of a bank teller receiving a piggy bank deposit.