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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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To Go Where No Student Has Gone Before
Eighth graders participate in interactive video teleconference with employees of NASA Johnson Space Center. Students visit inside of space station module, take video tour of Russian-built Service Module by Astronaut Bill Shepherd, visit...
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Future Career Visions
Students explore a variety of careers. They research careers they may be interested in pursuing. Students create a Career Flyer or Brochure and a PowerPoint presentation to present to the class.
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Thinking Like An Engineer
Pupils explore physics. They investigate the strategies used by an engineer to solve a problem. Students construct various models to solve the problem. They display their solutions and explain how they solved the problem.
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Career-Language Connection
Students participate in a layered curriculum unit about careers. The activities are varied and include the following: Using the Internet, research the career you've chosen to find out the job responsibilities, salary range, and education...
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Microscopes
Students investigate how microscopes are used. They identify ways microscopes are used to see cells and in various careers. They complete activities involving creating a vocabulary book, crossword puzzles, designing posters, and...
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Creating a Resume Using a Wizard and a Cover Letter with a Table
Students use technology in order to practice writing a resume and cover letter to pursue employment. They practice using Resume Wizard as the computer application to be used for the assignments.
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TEACHING STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES
Students are introduced to teaching strategies for meeting the needs of students with disabilities in general education settings. Teachers become familiar with the various modifications, interventions, accommodations and strategies that...
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Career Paths
Students read about and view a presentation on the five major career paths. They explore the vocabulary of the workplace and discuss the difference between jobs, occupations and careers. Then they use a career paths booklet to begin...
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Choose Your Attitude
High schoolers explore how attitude can make a difference in how they progress and become successful. They view movie clips and discuss how attitudes can change and influence people's lives. Students look at characteristics that...
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Conflict Resolution
Young scholars engage in learning about conflict resolution and practice using these skills. They take notes on steps and procedures to solving differences. In addition, students practice using these skills in a classroom activity.
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Dress for Success
High schoolers recognize the importance of dressing well for job interviews. They discuss and analyze appropriate business casual wear clothing. In addition, they watch an Impressions power point on the Erin Brachovich movie.
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Goals
Students generate and choose specific skills and tasks to guide the work-based learning experience. They use the five steps to setting goals to help their goal planning to be more efficient. In addition, they view a Goals power point...
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Job Application
Students encounter how to fill out a job application correctly. They read and discuss appropriate measures that should be taken in filling out a job application. Students fill a job application out and be assessed by their teacher.
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Hats Off to You!
Students research why people wear hats, caps or bonnets. They investigate various occupations, world costumes, sports, or idioms around hats. Students become more aware of cultures different from their own within this lesson.
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Pride in a Job Well Done
Students focus on individuals who discover their own special talents and sense of self-worth through the work they do. Students study accomplishments of famous people who may have had an impact on their lives. Students make connections,...
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Our Brilliant Careers
Students conduct Internet research to begin thinking about future career choices or to explore careers the students might think about pursuing in the future. Students create a career database using Microsoft Access.
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Map Creation
Second graders identify a map, symbol, key, and compass rose. Students create and print a map for teacher evaluation using the computer. Students identify the symbols on their map and orally present them to the class.
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Careers Using Mathematics
Students role play the role of an employee who is to open a new department for people interested in careers using math. Using the Internet, they research the various types of careers and describe them in a portfolio. They also examine...
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Women in the Media
High schoolers discuss ways they think women and men are portrayed in the mass media. They watch an excerpt from SISTERS OF '77 discussing media coverage of the event. Students write an essay describing their reactions to women in the...
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School Counseling and Home Economics
Eighth graders demonstrate the ability to select and evaluate media. Apply appropriate skills to collect, organize and interpret data. They research a variety of ways to make correct career choices.
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Florence Nightingale
Students describe the contributions made by Florence Nightingale to the medical profession and to her community. They describe ways that they have helped or could help people in their community. They identify a person in need of...
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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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Replicating Controversy
Student act as a research scientists and investigate the development of animal and human cloning. They then report their findings, both orally and visually, to their "colleagues" at a symposium on cloning research. Students explore the...