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Job Shadow/Internship
Students identify a career field to research and complete a job shadow activity. In this career exploration lesson plan, students brainstorm a list of careers they are interested in and research them. Students participate in a job shadow...
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What Do you Want to Be?
For this ESL worksheet, students use visual clues and a word bank to find 22 job-related words that appear in the word search. As s further challenge, students complete the graphic organizer by placing the words into the appropriate...
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Exploring Nonprofits
Young scholars research nonprofit organizations. In this philanthropy lesson, students use the Yellow Pages to identify nonprofit organizations and graph the organizations according to category.
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How'd They Do That?
Students research the movie production occupation and careers in the industry. In this movie careers and effects lesson, students watch a video about special effects used in movies and scale. Students draw a building to a specific scale...
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Career Bytes Interview
Students conduct career-based interviews. In this career education lesson, students research careers and interview career professionals to produce a video that features ins and outs of the career.
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Fire and EMS Search
In this career learning exercise, students find the words used to define aspects of a firefighter's job and the answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Firefighting
In this career worksheet, students find the vocabulary words used to describe the job of firefighting. The answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Job Talk
Students write about a job. In this careers and communication lesson, the teacher explains how stories are structured, then students choose a career to research and present the information to the class.
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Job Descriptions: He and She
In this pronoun usage worksheet, students complete 4 activities that help them learn to correctly use the pronouns he and she. Students match jobs and descriptions and write sentences using the pronouns.
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Earning an Income
Fourth graders study the role of money in society and define how to earn an income. In this human capital lesson, 4th graders read the book Shoeshine Girl and discuss it. Students discuss various economic concepts and complete the...
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Musical Roles
Students watch a videotape on the musical career of Aretha Franklin and explore the different careers in the music industry.
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Worksheet 13. Vocabulary Review
In this vocabulary instructional activity, students check all of the words or phrases that can complete the sentences. There are 8 sentences to complete and they have to do with occupations.
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Advanced Matching-medical Fields Part 2
For this medical careers worksheet, students study the different fields of medicine. Students match 11 terms to the correct definition that is provided.
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Nonprofit Interviews
Students consider careers in the nonprofit sector. In this interview skills instructional activity, students conduct interviews with employees of local nonprofits and present their findings to their classmates.
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Space Age Technology Comes to Earth
Students explore jobs related to agriculture. In this technology/agriculture lesson, students recognize the importance of natural resources and agriculture on the use of Range Rambler software. Students complete an experiment and a...
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Mystery Mollusc
High schoolers investigate the different regions of our oceans by researching the Internet. In this oceanography lesson, students discover the different jobs related to ocean research and examine their roles by reading related...
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AP Biology Lesson Outline
Twelfth graders research about the different careers in bioengineering. In this biology lesson, 12th graders identify the different stages in the cell cycle. They discuss the pros and cons of using radiation.
CSI Crime Lab: Classroom Edition
Participants use their observation skills, communication skills, and reasoning skills to perform forensic tests and solve a crime. This series of activities provides a first-hand (but scaled-down) introduction to careers in Forensic...
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Matching Jobs
In this matching jobs worksheet, students match the famous name to jobs that they have. Students match 15 famous names to their jobs.
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Half a crossword - Jobs
In this ESL activity learning exercise, students work with partners to complete a crossword puzzle. Each student is given a puzzle half completed. Their role is to give clues for the answers already given and fill in the other answers...
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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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The Good, the Bad, and the Goofy
Upper elementary learners read about jobs on a cattle drive and the lives of cowboy during U.S. Westward Expansion. They create a "Help Wanted" poster for one of the jobs. After reading primary source accounts of cowboys, they write...
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Space Age Technology Comes to Earth
Both GPS and GIS are now used regularly in agricultural careers. Explore the new technologies that require higher education for those interested in agri-science careers. Upper graders examine how agriculturalists use new technologies by...
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Using an Excel Checkbook
High school is the time that many scholars get their first jobs. Help young entrepreneurs apply economic principles to crucial skills for their new jobs and for functioning in society in general. They use Excel to balance a checkbook by...