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Interview a Professional: Professional Sports
Students research a career featured on a career website. They email an expert in the field of their choice. They conduct a questionnaire of the expert and record their findings. They collate their information and write a written...
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Finding and Collecting in the Field
Learners examine the types of plants brought over to America from immigrants. They research how some of these types of plants cause damage and alter the landscape. They record data and share the information with the community.
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Listening To The Prairie
Young scholars investigate the concept of agriculture and how it is part of the ecology and economy of the United States. They participate in a number of different classroom activities intended to raise agricultural awareness. The...
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BMI Calculations
Obesity is a worldwide concern. Using survey results, learners compare local BMI statistics to celebrity BMI statistics. Scholars create box plots of the data, make observations about the shape and spread of the data, and examine the...
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Home Sweet Home
In this Pilgrims activity, students analyze 12 pictures of common household items. Students circle all the pictures that show something that would have been found in a Pilgrim home.
Discovery Education
Urinalysis
What do lab tests reveal about a patient's health? Scholars perform a simulated urinalysis on two different patients by testing color, pH, glucose levels, and protein levels. Then, they compare their findings to what they know passes...
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Career Education for Early Elementary Grades
It's never too early to connect children with the real world meaning of their work. A series of four one-hour sessions, plus a field trip, make up this unit on college and career readiness for first and second graders. After viewing a...
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Interview a Professional: Marine Mammal Rescue
Learners choose a career featured on the school to career website. They research the career and email an expert in the field of their choice. They answer a series of questions and write a written report on their findings and present...
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How Many Hats Does a Farmer Wear
In this farmer instructional activity, students make a spinning wheel to describe the jobs of a farmer. Students create 1 wheel with 8 different jobs for a farmer.
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Sharing Our Surplus Stash: A Trick-Or-Treat Twist
Students give the gift of candy to community members. In this citizenship and giving lesson, students read Franklin's Halloween and discuss why the main characters give away part of their Halloween candy. Students brainstorm who in their...
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Counselors/Teachers
Administrators encourage students to take as much English, Science and Math as they can. They encourage students to take the most advanced classes they can. They help students find opportunities to explore medical careers through...
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Hazard Mitigation: Bioterrorism
Students discuss different ways to spread infectious diseases. In this bioterrorism lesson, students model the rate of smoke emission using CalRoad software. They analyze the effects of airborne release of biological...
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Using Word Parts to Infer Meaning
Learners examine the importance of physical activities and use word parts to infer meaning to a story. They discuss agility, baseball, and ballet dancing, read an article, and observe a demonstration on breaking down words and examining...
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Inside Information
Students research and write reports about inventions and inventors. They develop graphic organizers to organize their information, and create reports on the impact of inventors and inventions.
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How Do I Get a Job?
Pupils discuss employment programs, and research volunteer, intern and employment possibilities. They create an employment plan and a working resume.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Careers in Health
This lesson plan has young scholars research careers in health and interview someone in a health-related field.
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: Kids Work!
Career insights about working in the health, performing arts, and broadcasting professions. Find interviews with people who work in these fields, tours of work places, and "job play" interactives that let you experience what life is like...
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine: Choosing a Career in Health
There are two lessons in this lesson plan site. The first gives the students an appreciation of the need for hand washing to prevent disease and the second allows the students to explore the health field and to describe a career that...
Other
American Dental Association: Be a Dentist
From the American Dental Association, this page informs those with an interest in a career in dentistry. It includes information about professional associations, "day in the life" profiles of dentists, a list of ten reasons dentists...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Career Profile: Health Educator
Find out about the career of health educator in this Science Buddies career profile. You can find out who hires health educators and what their on the job work is like as well as the educational requirements to become one. If you enjoy...
Other
Gardellini: Sports Medicine
Are you interested in Sports Medicine? The Sports Medicine site offers information on careers in this field, college programs, events, fitness/excercise, health/wellness, sports injury, and professional associations.
National Institutes of Health
U.s. National Library of Medicine: Pub Med Online Training
Learn how to gain access to MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicine database of citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Different Branches of Geography
Learn about the many specializations in the field of geography within its two branches of physical and human geography.
University of California
Univ. Of California: Career Exploration Link
Are you interested in exploring a career? The occupational career exploration links allow you you to select a professional area and display potential job paths within that field.