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Getting a Job! Getting a Job: The Resume Interview
Eleventh graders discover resume strategies. In this career goals lesson, 11th graders review sample resumes, discuss their attributes, and write their own resumes that effectively introduce them to prospective employers.
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Identifying Various Roles of Women
Eighth graders view pictures of various women from Santa Clara County history. They discuss the occupational roles of the women and try to identify occupational roles they are familiar with. They answer questions on a Bio Brief...
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The Big Apple
Students study the buying and selling market and how prices are determined for an agricultural product. In this competitive market lesson, students study how prices are determined in a market by studying the forces of supply and demand....
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Life Long Learning
Twelfth graders complete a research activity to learn about post-secondary education and possible career paths. In this college and career search lesson, 12th graders locate colleges of interest on a map and explore information in a...
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Expressing Future Time
In this future time worksheet, students read 10 sentences and decide who is speaking the words. They write the letter of the person who is speaking the words from the list at the top of the page. They use each person once.
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Working in Photographs
Students analyze illustrations of workers in the 19th and 20th centuries. In this social science lesson, students examine photographs of workers and identify the types of work that were available in the 19th century compared to the 20th...
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Silly School vs. Super School
Students explore the importance of classroom jobs. They observe a puppet who is irresponsible and never gets her work completed and then discuss whether or not this puppet should be given a classroom job. As a class, they examine the...
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Infusing Equity by Gender Into the Classroom: A Handbook of Classroom Practices
Students match their natural proclivities to possible future careers which are nontraditional for their genders. They further examine gender stereotypes through other activities.
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Careers in Mathematics Project
Students use technology (Internet, email) to research mathematics in nonacademic careers in order to increase their awareness and appreciation of mathematics in the "real world."
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FACS:Health Careers Planner - Therapeutic Services
Students explore the Therapeutic Services Career Pathway using articles in the Health Careers Planner.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Unemployment
In this current events learning exercise, students analyze a political cartoon about unemployment and respond to 3 talking point questions.
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ESL Jobs Picture- Word Matching Worksheet
For this ESL jobs picture-word matching worksheet, students match small, black and white pictures of jobs with the words that name them. They complete 10 matching examples.
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Introduction of Careers in Technical and Engineering
Ninth graders explore career opportunities in technology and engineering. In this engineering lesson, 9th graders design plans and build machines to perform tasks.
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Infusing Equity By Gender Into the Classroom
Students participate in activities to develop life skills related to gender equity. In this gender equity activity, students examine the roles of people using hats. Students will role play various occupations related to the hats....
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Infusing Equity by Gender into the Classroom: A Handbook of Classroom Practices--See What We've Done
Learners research a leader or achiever, prepare a poster, and participate in a panel discussion and role play. In this contributions by people of diverse backgrounds lesson, students choose a leader and find three resources about...
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ESL Jobs- Word/Picture Matching Worksheet
In this ESL job activity, students match a small black and white clip art picture with the job title that names it. They match 10 pictures with words such as a teacher, a scientist, a police officer, and a dentist.
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Infusing Equity by Gender into the Classroom
Twelfth graders examine the different gender roles in the workforce. In this Social Studies lesson, 12th graders participate in a class discussion on their roles in society. Students write an essay.
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Running a Student Cooperative
Students form a classroom cooperative. In this service learning lesson, students explore how to form and run a cooperative and decide as a class how to implement their cooperative plan. Students use funds raised from the cooperative's...
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Skyline Vocabulary 1A
In this ESL worksheet, students read three vocabulary lists in alphabetical order and organized by topics. The topics include numbers, classroom language, and occupation.
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Jobs
In this ESL jobs vocabulary worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that depict people doing different jobs. Students match these pictures to the words that describe them.
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ESL Word and Picture Matching: Jobs
In this ESL jobs vocabulary worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that show people in different careers. Students match these pictures to the words that describe them.
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Future Time (Occupations)
In this verb usage learning exercise, students recognize the future tense while identifying people and their jobs. Students are given ten statements and ten occupations which they are to match.
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Classroom Commands
In this ESL jobs vocabulary worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that depict students at work at school. Students match these pictures to the classroom commands that describe them.
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False Positives
The test may say you have cancer, but sometimes the test is wrong. The provided task asks learners to analyze cancer statistics for a fictitious town. Given the rate of false positives, they interpret the meaning of this value in the...