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Look into Your Future
Students take a examine Community Helpers and the jobs they perform in order to help students explain the responsibilities the job entails. They recognize the community helpers, describe the jobs each performs and how technology is used.
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INVESTIGATING NONTRADITIONAL OCCUPATIONS
Students identify careers that are nontraditional for their gender. In this occupations lesson students research careers that are nontraditional for their gender and conduct interviews with individuals employed in nontraditional...
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CDA11:Investigating Interesting Careers (NT)
Learners explore different occupations and categorize them into different career fields by utilizing a fun "Where's Waldo" format poster.
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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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It's Your Future!
Students explore the concept of getting a job and buying a home. In this getting a job and buying a home lesson, students research job qualifications and salaries for various jobs. Students discuss what is a mortgage and how one works.
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Career Research
Students research a career they are interested in. They explore print and online want ads for job prospects, interview a person currently in that career, and make a class presentation about the career.
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Position Wanted
Learners share their opinions about local job opportunities for people their age. After reading an article about hiring trends, they discuss Google's answer to filling jobs. Class members research and report on an employer that offers...
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Choosing a Career Path
In this choosing a career path learning exercise, students envision their ideal job and research a few career possibilities they are interested in.
Bright Hub Education
Find Future Employment Ideas by Writing a Career Essay
Use the constructive ideas in this resource to assist in developing your own career writing project for your junior high or young high school scholars. The resource provides step-by-step plans for the educator and learners, as well...
California Department of Education
What’s the Market for My Labor?
A lesson showcases how knowing about Labor Market Information (LMI) supports searching for future job opportunities. Following a review of the concept and other vocabulary terms, scholars research occupations and answer questions on...
California Department of Education
Who Am I?
Inspire scholars to strive for a career in a field they love. Using a game that looks at likes and dislikes, learners discover their Holland code using a three-interest area survey. With their targeted interests confirmed, pupils...
ProCon
Teacher Tenure
Before the implementation of tenure in 1886, female teachers were sometimes fired for wearing pants or staying out too late at night. Scholars research the debate topic to decide if teachers should get tenure. They review the history of...
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What's an Ecotect?
In this future jobs worksheet, students use their creative thinking to select 10 job titles from a list and write a description for each job title. Students discuss as a class what good descriptions are and they discuss life in the future.
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Selecting a Career
High school is almost at an end and the upper classmen need to start thinking about the future. Discuss the steps needed to select the right career choice. Covered are the reasons people work, the differences between career, occupation,...
Workforce Solutions
Discover Your Interests
For many high schoolers, what they want to be when they grow up can be very intimidating. Here's an activity that gets them thinking about their interests and how they might connect these interests to future jobs. After watching a short...
K20 LEARN
To Be or Not to Be? That’s a Career Question! College and Career Readiness
Tell your class members Que sera might be if they complete a survey of their interests, examine a list of careers that address these interests, research these careers, and develop an action plan that will help them...
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Tootsie Roll, Tootsie Roll, Who Art Thou?
Students discuss gender role stereotyping and males and females in non-traditional work roles. They debate and discuss opinions as a group, and then as a class, concerning "men only" and "women only" jobs
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Space: Your Future Frontier?
Students explore careers in space and experience how math and science concepts are applied in the space program through an interactive video and cooperative group activities.
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What Will I Do?
Eighth graders investigate future career choices by looking at classified ads in the newspaper. They consider their lifestyle choices when looking at career options. They prepare a written essay which details how they will prepare for...
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What do I Know About the World of Work
In this world of work worksheet, students complete a survy to determine their knowledge about jobs and careers in the real world.
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What Do I Want to Be When I Grow Up?
Students explore career options. In this career lesson, students discover non-traditional career options for genders as they draw people at work in jobs and discuss them.
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Mandarin Mountains: Get a Job
Students consider career options. In this career lesson, students use a selected Internet source to explore various jobs as well as the skills required for them. Students also consider the contributions of workers to the communities they...
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Earthquakes: Learn From the Past, Prepare for the Future
Young scholars examine the destruction caused by earthquakes. In this community safety lesson, students examine the risk involved in living in an earthquake zone and how to prepare for future earthquakes.
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Preparing for Job Entry through Enhancement of Employment Skills
Students explore the world of work and the opportunities that exist in today's world. They identify specific careers and colleges that match their interests and abilities and investigate various corporations and businesses that employ...