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Helping Homeschoolers Be College-Ready

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Advice on essential skills for college from a homeschooled, public school teacher.
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Job Fair

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students develop job interviewing skills by using role play.They practice interviewing in English. The lesson targets second language learners. The activity is ideal because the role playing allows for scaffolding and clarification to...
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Creating an Electronic Resume for a Job Search

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students develop an appropriate resume for posting on a website for a job search. They create a web page using filamentality, and explore the web to find established career sites.
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How Do I Get a Job?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students discuss employment programs, and research volunteer, intern and employment possibilities. They create an employment plan and a working resume.
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Careers: Exploring the Job Market

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore career opportunities by completing job applications, writing resumes, and composing cover letters. After discussing careers, they compile job portfolios using items contained in their job kits. Once students have set...
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Career Explorations and Personal Finance

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners use various search engines and Web sites to find out information for a career they think they might like to pursue. They present their information to the class in an oral report.
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Career Interview Project

For Students 8th - 10th
In this career interview project worksheet, students compile information from interviews of a person in a career of interest to them. Students relate pros and cons of the career and characteristics that will help in making a person a...
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Career Math Problems

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders solve career word problems using math.
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Career Preparation

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine career possibilities. In this career preparation lesson, students compile portfolios that feature their teaching abilities and make presentations about successful teaching.
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Infusing Equity by Gender into the Classroom: School to Career

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers identify nontraditional career areas for their gender and discuss gender bias and stereotyping.  In this nontraditional careers lesson, students research a nontraditional career and shadow the job in the...
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CHOOSING A CAREER - WITHOUT LIMITATIONS

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students identify career areas that are not traditional for their gender.
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Career Challenge Puzzle

For Students 6th - 8th
In this awareness of career choice worksheet, students find 42 careers in a word search puzzle. The careers span a range of skill and education levels.
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Career Explorations

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students use a variety of resources to discover their personal goals, interests, aptitudes and priorities. They apply these interests to course selection and career choices.
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Skimming and Scanning Information

For Students Higher Ed
In this career worksheet, students practice the real life application of reading skills. They specifically cover the tasks of skimming and scanning a text.
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Bar Graphs and Pie Charts

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore their interest and strengths and display them using a bar graph and pie chart.
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Textiles and Apparal

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers create apparel. In this career connection lesson, students create displays that feature textile and apparel samples.
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Education and Careers

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore careers and decide what type of education is needed for each.
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Fire and EMS Search

For Students 6th - 8th
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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Careers: Accounting and Business Ethics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore careers in accounting and examine various job opportunities. In addition, they assess the ethics associated with the business world. The lesson concludes with online games and a quiz covering job opportunities and...
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Job Applications and Interviews: Employment Crossword Puzzle

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this crossword puzzle activity, students complete the crossword puzzle by solving the 12 clues at the bottom of the page. The theme of this puzzle is job applications and interviews.
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Understanding and Identifying Individual Resources

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students identify their own individual resources in the categories of financial, emotional, mental, physical, role models, knowledge of hidden rules, and support systems.
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Stress Factors and Careers

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders explore factors that cause stress. They identify stress factors and how to deal with them. They role-play differences in cultures and equity issues and how they are affected by them. They record stresses they have and rate...
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Gender Equity and Community Role Models

For Teachers 1st
First graders listen to speakers in various professions. In this careers lesson, the teacher invites community members to speak to the class about their jobs and the education required, then students draw the conclusion that men and...
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Natural Fibers and Textiles

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students sort fibers by identifying the appropriate characteristics of natural fibers. After sorting, students determine the difference between man-made and natural fibers, and play textile bingo.