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Ethics on the Job

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students examine ethics in the workplace. In this Career and leadership lesson, students will pair up to discuss various issues surrounding workplace ethics. This lesson includes 3 different activities, and assessment and necessary...
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Budgeting for the Future

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders determine the net amount of an income for a fictional job. They must determine their net worth minus standard deductions. Students must then determine their monthly budget including, groceries, credit, and rent.
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National Research Center for Career and Technical Education

Information Technology: Photoshop Scale

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Scaling is a practical skill as well as a topic to be addressed throughout the Common Core math standards. You are given three different presentations and a detailed teacher's guide to use while teaching proportion, as well as practice...
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National Research Center for Career and Technical Education

Finance: Depreciation (Double Declining)

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Of particular interest to a group of business and finance pupils, this lesson explores depreciation of automobile values by comparing the double declining balance to the straight line method. Mostly this is done through a slide...
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Building A Resume

For Teachers 10th - 12th
After a brief lecture on the purpose and components of a resume, students fill in a blank reusme according to the type of job they would like to apply for. They compare their resume to the job they currently hold. Students look for...
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Japan Society

A Remade Environment

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Art is a wonderful way to express feelings of social unrest or change. Learners will examine the works of two contemporary Japanese artists, and how they each have used art to say something big. They analyze the work of Katsuhiro Saiki...
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Carpentry: merit badge

For Students 5th - 12th
In this carpentry worksheet, students fill out short answer questions using their workbook about carpentry in order to get a merit badge. Students complete 6 questions total.
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Appropriate Topics For Small Talk

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore the concept of small talk. They identify topics that are proper and improper for small talk. Working with a partner, students practice small talk dialogs and responding to questions about their families and home life....
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Creating a Personal Resume

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders be asked to write down information about themselves from questions on the board. They take this information and type it in a program from the computer lab. The resume will be kept in their expandable file for future reference.
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Plant Biology

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young biologists discuss the reasons behind the current use of the plant identification system. They get into groups and identify the characteristics of each species of plant which is described. The keys needed for groups to make...
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The Learning Book (Part 2)

For Teachers 1st
First graders examine and discuss the skills needed to be an effective learner. They sing "The Learning Song" to the tune of London Bridge is Falling Down, and complete a Learning Book activity sheet. Each student draws a picture of the...
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Interview a Professional: Professional Sports

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research a career featured on a career website. They email an expert in the field of their choice. They conduct a questionnaire of the expert and record their findings. They collate their information and write a written...
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Interview a Professional: Marine Mammal Rescue

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students choose a career featured on the school to career website. They research the career and email an expert in the field of their choice. They answer a series of questions and write a written report on their findings and present...
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Team Players

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine a school to career website. They collect and collate data about careers from their own data collection. They determine which skills and abilities ensure successful teamwork. They research two careers that they come...
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Kids at Work

For Teachers 2nd
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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Housing

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students prepare for life on their own after graduation. They explore various types of housing available in the United States. Students study about caring for a home including how to resolve problems and repairs.
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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.
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Spin The Bottle

For Teachers 1st
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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Bringing Justice Home ~First Steps toward Community Action

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners explore activities that might some day bring "justice for all" to their communities. They assess how justice is a day-to-day, life or death matter that faces their communities. Interviews are conducted to explain how justice is...
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Acoustical Society of America

Anatomy of a Wave

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pair physical science learners up, and have one describe a transverse wave while the other blindly attempts to draw it. Then reveal an actual diagram and explain the different parts of the wave: crest, trough, wavelength. Though most of...
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NGA Kids Inside Scoop Summer 2006

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students read passages and study paintings to learn about the artist Giovanni Antonio Canal and his subject of Venice. In this art history lesson, students read about Canaletto and explore Venice through his paintings. Students then...
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Using Input/Output Storage Devices

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students determine the use of their left and right hands as they study the use of the home row of keys and the spacebar. They label the keys on a paper keyboard before practicing the home keys using a website based activity.
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Reality Bites

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students select a career or occupation to study. Students research their career preferences and annual living expenses compared to the estimations they may before conducting research.
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Medals of Honor

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify their strengths and find out what careers they would do best in.