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Career One Stop: Career and Cluster Videos
Resource offers online career videos in 16 industry areas to learn about the type of work performed in a variety of jobs in each industry area.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Get the Word Out at Mc Donalds!
Students take part in a hypothetical scenario that challenges them to inform customers at a local restaurant of how their use and disposal of plastics relates/contributes to the Great Pacific garbage patch (GPGP). What students...
Other
Dj Zone: What to Say When Someone Calls
This site gives great tips for answering the phone in the most efficient and polite manner possible. Pretty good overview of basic telephone skills.
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The Center for the Study of Technology and Society
This online magazine offers the latest news and information concerning the relationship between society and available technologies.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Carbons to Computers Fax
The Smithsonian Institution provides the lifeline of the fax machine and of its uses in the business world.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Company Salute
In this lesson students will explore employee/employer issues related to a specific job/company. Students will then design a poster presenting or "saluting" the job/company they researched and share information with the class.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: "Fccla the Community Connection"
This is a project-based lesson designed to guide students through the steps of planning a student organization community service project. The lesson focuses on the students' ability to apply knowledge and skills gained through...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Do You Know How?
Students will write in a technical genre. "Technical writing conveys specific information about a technical subject to a specific audience for a specific purpose. The words and graphics of technical writing are meant to be practical:...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Ctso Recruitment for the "Tech Savvy"
Career Tech Student Organization (CTSO) should be an integral part of Commerce Information Technology courses. This lesson will allow students to take an active role in promoting their CTSO organization. This lesson is an ideal teamwork...
PBS
Pbs (Affluenza): What Are Advertisers Selling
What are advertisers really selling? Are there hidden messages in ads? In this lesson plan, learners explore the concept of persuasive advertising and evaluate ads directed at young consumers. A timely lesson plan that would generate...
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Problem Solving/negotiation
This site is an advertisement, but it has some good information regarding the negotiation process, e.g., seven steps that are common to all negotiations.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Be an Ad Detective
Every day, students are bombarded by advertising. They cannot escape it. But marketers realize that many ypung people are becoming very good at tuning ads out. Businesses thus are becoming more creative in their communication with...