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Work and Rewards

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore the concept of work. Rewards for working are considered and related to personal recognition and satisfaction.
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Volunteering As Good Work

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students generate questions to ask volunteers. They conduct interviews to determine volunteer's motivation. They write thank you letters to volunteers.
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Work and Responsibility

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders investigate the responsibilities related to various careers.
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Jobs and Contracts

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine careers and the skills they need for them.
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Owning Your Own Business

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders consider the type of business they might like to own. They design an advertisement for this business. They prepare questions that they could ask each other, as owners of various businesses. Guest speakers could be utilized.
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My Academic Goals

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers investigate academic goals and how they lead to career choices. They conduct interviews and complete worksheets, and discuss the issues.
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What Will I Be?

For Teachers 3rd
Third gradersl examine personality characteristics that are necessary for careers. They identify characteristics necessary for any type of occupation and discuss gender bias. They write a job description for an occupation of their choosing.
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Let's Celebrate!

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders, as a whole class, create a calendar of holidays using cards. Afterward, they add their birthdays to the calendar.
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What I Want to Be

For Teachers K
Students draw pictures of what they might like to be when they grow up. They discuss their reasons for choosing that career and what they might need to do that job.
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The Struggle to Organize

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze correspondence and a news release regarding the Harlan, Kentucky, mine strike of 1931-1932. They use these documents to discuss the problems of organizing industrial trade unions before the New Deal.
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Job Turnabout

For Teachers K
Students discuss what their parents do for a career.
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Career Interest Record

For Teachers 1st
First graders fill out career interest cards throughout the year.
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Working-with-Animals Careers

For Teachers 1st
First graders list and discuss careers that involve working with animals and draw pictures of careers that interest them. They compare and contrast domestic and wild animals.
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Career Math Puzzles

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders come up with a career for each letter of the alphabet.
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Beastly Careers

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discuss careers related to pets and animals. They talk about their own pets and investigate animal careers that interest them. They write a paper and draw a picture of their choice career.
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Jobs We Depend On

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate how people depend on each other to fulfill their needs.
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We Are People of the Cross

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore the cross as a symbol of redemption and of the Trinity. They become aware of Jesus' crucifixion and the history of the crucifix.
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Career Graph

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore different careers and what is needed to perform them.
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Working With Animals

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study careers that involve animal care such as veterinarians, zookeepers and archeologists. They create a collage of animal drawings related to the careers.
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Job Mobile

For Teachers K
Students make a job mobile of what they would like to be when they grow up.
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Career Choices Are Changing

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use magazine to find pictures of things that their grandparents did not have and make a display listing related careers to each picture. They discuss how the world has changed.
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Inside Work/Outside Work

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore inside and outside work, what kind of people like which one, and what they would prefer.
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Meteorologists

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate the work of a meteorologist and then take on the identity of one to make reports on clouds and temperature.
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What's Your Style?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore how different people have different styles of learning and which style of learning best suites them.