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Flowing Data: Jobs Charted by State and Salary
An interactive look at employment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Browse by state, median salary, and job category to hone in on a career choice.
Princeton Review
The Princeton Review: Career: Auto Salesperson
Information on the career of an auto salesperson. Includes job duties, job requirements, future outlook for the job, and more.
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library: Pre School Library: What Should Fran Wear?
Help dress firefighter Fran in the proper clothing for fighting fires.
Careers New Zealand
Career Nz : Warehouse Worker
All you wanted to know and more about the career of a warehouse worker. Find out tasks and duties, skills, education, working conditions, and much more on the career as a warehouse worker.
Careers New Zealand
Kiwi Careers: Surgeon
KiwiCareers offers a simple and general description of tasks and duties of a surgeon.
Careers New Zealand
Careers Nz: Artistic Director
This site offers a brief description, alternative titles, and the duties and responsibilities of an artistic director.
Careers New Zealand
Careers Nz: Market Researcher
Very descriptive overview of the job of a market researcher. Read about the job, skills needed, education needed, working conditions, and much more.
Princeton Review
The Princeton Review: Career Coach
This site contains detailed information on the coaching career field. Tells typical duties, job requirments (both educational and personal), what to expect after being in the field for awhile, future job outlook, and more.
American Academy of Family Physicians
American Academy of Family Physicians
Home page of a professional organization of family doctors. Contains information related to issues in family practice medicine, including a search engine for research. Professional and educational resources and many related Web links are...
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Sacnas: The Biography Project
This site profiles dozens of Chicano/Latino and Native American scientists. Most are still active in their field of research. Searchable by field of science. Also contains links to some fantastic science sites by topic.
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Oklahoma Physical Therapy Association
This is the home page for this association that provides various types of information regarding physical therapy.
Read Works
Read Works: Stinky Job
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a making a scent to represent the breath of a Tyrannosaurus rex. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Formulate a Career Plan
This lesson will engage students in career research. Each student will use the I-Search process and then write a 3-5 paper about a career of interest.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Goals
As a response to 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey, students will select and write down personal learning goals that relate to their work based learning experiences. Several reproducible sheets related to goal setting are...
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Tomorrows Engineers: About Engineering
Discover what engineering has to offer you. Read FAQs about this field, explore some engineering careers, or read some case studies to find out about how it relates to science, technology, and math.
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Kappa Omicron Nu: Kids & Careers in Human Sciences
Explore some different careers on this interactive minisite. Simply mouse over the selected career title, and read information about that particular job.
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American Nurses Association
This site contains a great deal of information about nursing and current issues in the nursing career. Recent published articles as well as an online journal are included. This site has many links to related sites.
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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.
Princeton Review
The Princeton Review: Career: Restauranteur
This site contains detailed information on the restaurant management career field. It has details on the daily life of the job, future outlook for the job, job requirements, and other information.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Banks, Bankers, Banking
Students will demonstrate understanding of the processes associated with banking by role-playing as customers, tellers, and guards.