Curated OER
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...
Curated OER
Tolerance: Gender Issues
High schoolers explore why some professions have been gender-dominant in the past. In this lesson, students identify some professions that have typically had one specific gender employed in the past, then research that job to see when it...
Curated OER
Classroom Jobs
Students explore responsibility by participating in class exercises. For this classroom community lesson, students utilize flash cards which assign one of six jobs to every student in the class. Students perform their class...
Curated OER
Creating a Job Community
Students design their own job communities. In this art and career exploration lesson, students are placed into groups to create models of business areas based on job types.
Curated OER
I'm 93, But Quitting Job Would Drive Me Off My Trolley
Young scholars read and discuss a news article about the elderly in the workplace. They use the content of the article for practice in making predictions, determining verb tense, and basic comprehension.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Registered Nurses
Extensive information about the nursing career as well as information on many other careers. The search engine can be used to find any career listed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Securities, Commodities, Financial Service Sales
Information on various fields of financial services. Read about the job description, education, working conditions, job outlook, wages, and much more.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Pest Controllers
Complete description of the work of pest controllers, including nature of the work, education and preparation, employment outlook, and wages.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Grounds Maintenance Workers
Comprehensive U.S. Department of Labor report of the occupation that includes nursery, landscape, grounds, and greenhouse laborers. Also includes working conditions, wages, outlook, and career preparation.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Occupational Therapists
This Bureau of Labor Statistics site tells what occupational therapists do and the types of people they work with. Describes their working conditions, job opportunities and salary. Tells qualifications needed to become an occupational...
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Dental Hygienist
A great website outlining all aspects of a career as a dental hygienist. Includes information about employment, current job outlook, nature of the work, training, and more.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Pharmacy Technician
The US Department of Labor site offers substantial information on the Pharmacy Technician Career. Page provides employment projections detailing nature of the work, employment training, job outlook, and earnings potential.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Radiologic Technician
Published by the Department of Labor, this site details the Radiologic Technician Career. Employment outlook, and projections are provided with training and qualifications data.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Announcers
This resource provides occupational information about announcers. Topics covered include working conditions, training, job outlook, earnings, and related careers.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Forestry, Conservation, and Logging Occupations
Complete description of careers in logging, including loggers, fallers, buckers, equipment operators, choke setters and riggers, sorters, log graders and scalers, and others who work in the wood harvesting occupations. Page contains...
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Forest and Conservation Workers
This resource provides information about forestry and conservation careers. The page contains nature of the work, training, wages, and outlook.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Physicians and Surgeons
Occupational outlook for all doctors that details expected job market in future, salary, working conditions, etc.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Female Workforce
Irish women discuss social and economic changes that have taken place over the last half century in this video from Wide Angle.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Unemployment in My Hometown
In this lesson plan, students interpret data tables from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to compare national and local unemployment data.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Medical Records and Health Information Tech
Career trends and employment projections are detailed in this Department of Labor site. General information on the Medical Records and Health Information Technician profession is also provided.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Petroleum Engineers
The Bureau of Labor Statistics offers a complete description of the petroleum engineering career field, including nature of work, outlook, and earnings.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Cardiovascular Technician
This site, published by the Department of Labor Statistics, provides information related to the Cardiovascular Technician Career. Employment projections and trends are detailed with a brief description of the profession.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Computer Systems Design Career Guide
Department of Labor Career Guide that gives comprehensive information on data processing careers. Links include Nature of the Industry, Working Conditions, Employment, Earnings, Training and Advancement, Outlook, and Additional...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Uninsured in America
Understand the multiple problems faced by those without health insurance. Consider who the uninsured are, why they do not have insurance, government programs available to them and possible solutions. News coverage up to 2007.