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Curated OER

My Career Step Plan of Action

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars explore the job market and write goals to reach their ultimate career. Individually, students complete a Career Step Plan of Action to outline their personal goals. Young scholars research jobs and education necessary...
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Curated OER

Truth in Advertising

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Does propaganda exist in popular media? Explore the concept of propaganda in this media education lesson. Middle schoolers examine persuasive techniques used in commercials. They then create commercials that feature truthful information.
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Curated OER

School to Career Job Research Project

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students initiate an academic career plan. For this career planning lesson, students research possible job interests and devise a personal plan to achieve that position. Students locate educational requirements and potential mentors who...
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Curated OER

Does my career fit me?

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students create a venn diagram about the job they currently have and if they think it is what they should be doing. In this job lesson plan, students list education and job duties in a venn diagram and analyze if it is the correct job...
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Curated OER

Exploration, Development and Planning for the Future

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research their strengths and weaknesses and helps them make a career choice.
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Curated OER

Career Development (Career Exploration)

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders identify factors that influence the changing career patterns of women and men. They identify mentors and resources to support career plans and identify volunteer and leisure activities that relate to their career goals.
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Curated OER

Career Interest Record Update

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students create and update Career Interest Records to indicate their current career interests. Students evaluate what they want to be when they grow up and how their interests have changed since the previous year.
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Curated OER

Many Teenagers Uninformed in Financial Literacy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars explore the concept of financial literacy. They read an article about the lack of financial literacy among teenagers, discuss what if means to be financially literate, the research a career that will allow them to live...
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Curated OER

Traveling the Career Paths 1

For Teachers K
Students explore careers. For this life goals lesson, students examine several career paths as they listen to puppets present different types of jobs and discuss the importance of each of the jobs.
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Curated OER

Career Preparation

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine career possibilities. For this career preparation lesson, students compile portfolios that feature their teaching abilities and make presentations about successful teaching.
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Curated OER

Career & Technology Education Introduction to Farming: Seeds of Successful Marketing

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students play an agronomy game. In this agriculture lesson plan, students explore modern farming practices pertaining to the cultivation of grains as they play a game that requires them to act as agronomy specialist as they apply their...
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Star Wars in the Classroom

"Shakespeare and Star Wars": Lesson Plan Day 2

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Ta DUM, ta DUM, ta DUM, ta DUM, ta DUM. The force will be strong in the hearts of your young Jedi as they use their lightsabers to strike the accentted syllables in lines from Ian Doescher's William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New...
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Curated OER

Career and Personal Planning

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students visit Conservation in Action web site to watch three video interviews with Vancouver Aquarium researchers, complete Careers in Conservation worksheet, research threats facing species featured on Conservation web site, and create...
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Curated OER

Attaining Career Goals

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore career options available to them. They explore several careers and their requirements. Students create an action plan to help them attain their career goals. This lesson is intended for students acquiring English.
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Curated OER

Career Biographies

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students choose an occupation that they would like to pursue and write a career biography that outlines the path they would need to follow to achieve their goals.
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Curated OER

"Interviews:" Analyzing Interviews To Make A Career Connection

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students assess how people currently employed got their jobs and the process they went through to be interviewed for the positions they acquired. They analyze how their past job experiences have helped them obtain their current jobs.
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Florida Department of Education

Goal Setting and Decision-Making

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Making goals is easy, but how do you achieve them? Guide young decision makers into reaching setting and reaching their goals with a step-by-step guide. After answering questions about what they'd wish for or accomplish, learners write...
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California Department of Education

My Best Resume

For Teachers 11th Standards
For employers and recruiters, the first step in their quest to find good candidates is the paper screening process. They look at a candidate's application and resume and push forward the files of those who meet their requirements. Thus...
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Unit Plan
NASA

Engineering Design for Human Exploration

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
What would it take to live on the lunar surface? Small groups build model rockets in order to simulate launching a habitat into space and rebuilding it. Divide the class into groups to design and build a model of a lunar habitat. The...
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Northern Lights Special Education Cooperative

Lessons from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
As part of a study of  Sean Covey, the author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens learners write autobiographical e-mails, hold discussions, create a collage, and compose a personal mission statement. Pupils then have a chance to...
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American Physiological Society

It’s the Heart of the Matter

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Get the class jumping for joy with a fascinating look at matters of the heart. Learners perform physical tasks, collect and analyze heart rate data, and study conditions that affect heart health. Use the action-packed lesson plan to...
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American Physiological Society

How Does the Density of a Liquid Affect the Buoyancy of an Object?

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Here's a lesson plan that will really float your boat! Introduce physical science scholars to the relationship between buoyancy and density through an assortment of individual and collaborative exercises. Lab groups work together to...
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New York State Education Department

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 1

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Work out your core, Common Core State Standards, through the first workshop in a series of 15 designed for educators. Inquiry-based activities designed for all content areas and grade levels explore the shifts to new standards,...
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Missouri Department of Elementary

Think Positive!

For Teachers 4th Standards
Following an attention-grabbing read-aloud, scholars brainstorm ways they can change negative thoughts into positive thoughts. Small groups plan and perform a skit that showcases one of the new ideas to uplift one's feelings....