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Getting Ready for Success, Part 1
Third graders verbally respond to the following questions: Which category does each skill fall into? and "Do skills fall into more than one category?" They review what personal, ethical and work habit skills are: personal skills, ethical...
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Does My hair Disrupt Your Learning?
Students use the internet to research ways to save and earn money. They interview bankers and financial counselors to discover different types of investments. Students create public service announcements to inform their classmates of...
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Exploring Careers
Fourth graders explore various careers and research the education and skills required, the job location and description, and the tools/instruments used.
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Career Graph
Second graders explore different careers and what is needed to perform them.
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Education and Careers
Fifth graders explore careers and decide what type of education is needed for each.
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How To Get the Job Done
Fifth graders identify the physical activities that are related to certain jobs.
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Work and Rewards
Fifth graders explore the concept of work. Rewards for working are considered and related to personal recognition and satisfaction.
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Work and Responsibility
Third graders investigate the responsibilities related to various careers.
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Owning Your Own Business
Fifth graders consider the type of business they might like to own. They design an advertisement for this business. They prepare questions that they could ask each other, as owners of various businesses. Guest speakers could be utilized.
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Volunteering As Good Work
Pupils generate questions to ask volunteers. They conduct interviews to determine volunteer's motivation. They write thank you letters to volunteers.
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My Academic Goals
Young scholars investigate academic goals and how they lead to career choices. They conduct interviews and complete worksheets, and discuss the issues.
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What I Want to Be
Students draw pictures of what they might like to be when they grow up. They discuss their reasons for choosing that career and what they might need to do that job.
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Working-with-Animals Careers
First graders list and discuss careers that involve working with animals and draw pictures of careers that interest them. They compare and contrast domestic and wild animals.
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Jobs We Depend On
Fourth graders investigate how people depend on each other to fulfill their needs.
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Career Interest Record
First graders fill out career interest cards throughout the year.
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Inside Work/Outside Work
Fourth graders explore inside and outside work, what kind of people like which one, and what they would prefer.
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What's Your Style?
Fifth graders explore how different people have different styles of learning and which style of learning best suites them.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Getting to Know You
The students will go on an in-school scavenger hunt to get to know the many kinds of people that make up an elementary school community. They will work in small groups and use digital cameras to take pictures of the workers they find. By...
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Unesco: United Kingdom: New Lanark
New Lanark is a small 18th- century village set in a sublime Scottish landscape where the philanthropist and Utopian idealist Robert Owen moulded a model industrial community in the early 19th century. The imposing cotton mill buildings,...