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Infusing Equity By Gender Into the Classroom
Students identify careers that are nontraditional for their gender.
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Working With Animals
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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Kids at Work
Second graders draw pictures of the "work" they do and create a bulletin board of career categories using their parent's jobs.
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Working for What You Want
Second graders write a story about someone who works in order to earn money for something they want.
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Who I Am - Likes
Second graders complete a "Who Am I" sheet to decide what kinds of things they like and then have a class discussion.
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Farm Animals
Second graders write a paper about what kind of animal they would like to raise on a farm.
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Career Graph
Second graders explore different careers and what is needed to perform them.
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Career Interest Record
First graders fill out career interest cards throughout the year.
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Spin The Bottle
First graders play spin the bottle and when the bottle points to them they are to describe their job at school.
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Down on the Farm
Students are introduced to a map of an Illinois farm. They determine whether the map is of the past, present, or future by looking at features on the map. They also use the map to make a three-dimensional model.
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Crayograph Quilts
Students create a quilt-like fabric swatches using Crayograph crayons, emery paper and rubbing plates.
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Count on Science & Math for Your Future
Young scholars 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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Careers and Weather
Learners explore how weather affects a variety of jobs. Through a series of activity sheets, they determine what occupations create more or less activity because of weather conditions.
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Old Macdonald Had A Farm
Students learn the vocabulary associated with a farm and to count the animals by ones and tesn.
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WHAT ANIMALS GIVE US?
Students examine how animals on a farm provide us with many resources.
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The Mitten
Students listen to the story The Mitten, and visit a website about the story's author. Students create masks of the animals from the story and present a play of the story.
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Homes Sweet Homes
Students analyze various paintings of houses by Robert Harris. They examine what home really means to themselves by drawing house designs, collecting artifacts and making a class museum, taking photos and conducting a guided tour of...