University of California
Student Workbook: Reading Comprehension
Teach your class five reading strategies to help them with reading informational texts and literary texts. This packet, designed to help learners prepare for the CAHSEE, provides specific strategies that could be used to help prepare for...
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Personal Growth and the Personal Leadership Inventory
What are employers looking for in prospective employees? Career-minded high schoolers examine their strongest technical skills as well as important 21st century skills, including leadership, empathy, clear communication, working well...
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Tolerance: Gender Issues
Students explore why some professions have been gender-dominant in the past. In this lesson, students identify some professions that have typically had one specific gender employed in the past, then research that job to see when it...
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Wanted: Texas Workers
Students discover industries prevalent in nineteenth-century Texas cities and identify resources required to perform occupations. They examine how geographic areas contribute to the development of industries and write a letter applying...
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Who Does What?
First graders examine activities that people in various careers engage in. They identify and compare/contrast various careers, and participate in a matching game that matches people to an object.
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Learning About Writers
Students explore how authors write stories. In this careers lesson plan, students invite an author into the classroom and ask him/her questions about writing as a career.
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People Who Work in the Woods
Students study the types of jobs that people can do in the forest. They examine those who study the forest, harvest the trees, and plant trees to renew the forest.
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Salaries
Students are engaged in the study of salaries and how they vary according to different occupations. They conduct research using a variety of resources in order to summarize the earnings potential in the human services field.
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Quiz: ESL Career Vocabulary
In this ESL careers vocabulary activity, students examine 7 pictures that depict different careers. Students read each question and write a sentence that answers it.
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Entrepreneurs
Young scholars explore becoming entrepreneurs. In this career exploration lesson, students work in small groups to begin a new business that they will "build" from scratch as they learn what it takes to create a successful business by...
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Science Jobs Word Search Worksheet
In this science professionals worksheet, students read 18 words pertaining to science specialties. Example: entomologist, ornithologist. Students locate the words in a word search puzzle.
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Showtime! Profit or Non
Students perform a production. In this job lesson, students perform the production they created about jobs in the profit and nonprofit sectors. Students write an essay describing the advantages and disadvantages of working in these sectors.
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How Busy Are Bees?
Students research the jobs of bees. In this timeline activity, students map out each of the six different jobs a worker bee does in its lifetime. They create a timeline and then retell the job descriptions.
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Global Job Hopping
Students examine basic trade terms and data about the economies of countries increasingly used as outsources for American jobs.
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Let the Phone Get Them Talking! Using the Yellow Pages as a Teaching Resource
Students categorize information in the Yellow Pages. In this Let the Phone Book Get Them Talking! lesson, students find pictures in the Yellow Pages and thus gain a better understanding of how the book is organized. Students locate local...
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The Genocide Teaching Project
Learners investigate what genocide is as well as places that it is found in the 20th century. They trace the history of genocide back to the events that occurred in Sudan's history. Brainstorming ways to prevent the ongoing conflicts and...
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FACS:Health Careers Planner - Support Services
Students explore the Support Services Career Pathway using articles in the Health Careers Planner (HCP).
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Count on Science & Math for Your Future
Students complete a variety of classroom and online activities designed to teach them the importance of science and math in all career paths and stimulate their awareness and interest in various careers.
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Career Education
Students identify three career options for consideration as a career, and then compose a two-paragraph report on a career option that he or she is considering.
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Teaching in a Time of Crisis
Learners react to the current financial crisis. In this community building lesson, students are given the opportunity to voice their thoughts and feelings on the current financial crisis in the safety of a classroom meeting.
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6-8 Interior Design: Designing My Dream Room
Students analyze interior design as a profession. In this interior design lesson, students design their own dream bedroom and explore interior design as a profession. Students draw a scaled drawing using graph paper and appropriate...
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Clifford Learns About the Circus and So Do We!
Students investigate the characteristics of different circus jobs and the animals commonly seen at the circus. They read a book about clowns and construct and perform a trick hot dog. Students also create a clown accordion book.
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Global Community: T-Shirt Activity
Examine fair trade and the impacts it has on the global community. Kids consider how t-shirts are made, where they come from, and how fair trade works. They design t-shirts that describe the affects of fair trade on various populations...
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Women in Science: Dr. Grace Bush
Learn about the study of paleoecology with a resource about Dr. Grace Bush and her contributions to the field. After reading a one-page passage, learners answer comprehension questions and explore their personal interests in different...