This will be a 2-3 day lesson where a student will learn how to cut a slot for a keyway in a pulley, sprocket, or wheel.
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Students will take an interest survey. The students will discuss the outcomes of the surveys with the class. Children will develop self-knowledge, a basic understanding of interests, likes and dislikes, and discover jobs that fall within their selections of high interest.
This is a career activity book that provides 22 activities on career exploration, student development, and critical thinking. Children will complete the activities in this booklet.
Children will develop self-knowledge, basic understanding of interests, likes and dislikes, and discover jobs that fall within their selections of high interest.
Students will recognize that basic educational skills are necessary in occupations throughout the community.
Students will explore different jobs throughout the community. Children will complete a self-awareness survey and explore careers in their community.
“In this lesson, students identify parallel and intersecting lines in the world around them—in a map of a neighborhood, in the letters of the alphabet, in some part of their classroom, and in familiar logos. They apply their understanding to represent and draw a part of their environment that shows such lines and to create a new logo with these types of lines.” Students finish the lesson by exploring how their new skills of identifying and drawing angles relates to the career activities of architectural and civil drafters.
In small groups, students experiment and observe the similarities and differences between human-made objects and objects from nature. They compare the function and structure of hollow bones with drinking straws, bird beaks, tool pliers, bat wings and airplane wings. Observations are recorded in a compare & contrast chart, and then shared in a classroom discussion, along with follow up assessment activities such as journal writing and Venn diagrams.
People use energy in all aspects of their lives—for cooking, lighting and entertainment. Much of this energy use takes place in buildings, such as our homes. To save money and reduce the impact on our environment, many people are reducing their energy use. One way is to hire engineers to perform home energy audits to understand the ways we use energy and identify ways we can conserve energy. In this activity, students act as energy conservation engineers and identify the ways energy is conserved or wasted. They also learn many ways to personally conserve energy everyday.
Students will be using real-life energy use data to learn how to use spreadsheets and create graphs to better organize and view data. Discussions can then follow to analyze the data and explain the usage. Real rates are then provided, and students can use the electricity consumed data to create a utility bill for the consumer and compare the standard Residential Service charges to if the member were instead billed by the “Time of Use” rate.
All careers rely on English-related skills like reading, writing, speaking and listening. Specifically English-related careers can also be found in the following Career Cluster Chart.
Students will increase their understanding of the forest as a renewable resource by learning about forest management techniques and developing a forestry management plan.
In an earlier lesson, students learned about the steel making and forging process. In this lesson, students will create a die using a 3D printer and then forge a part using play-dough. The lesson culmination will be a trip to the local business “Walker Forge” located in Clintonville, WI.
This inquiry embeds an Academic and Career Planning concept into historical inquiry, allowing students to make connections between historic accident analysis and the type of accident chain analysis a business might do today. By investigating the compelling question “Can the Accident Chain be disrupted?” students evaluate secondary sources about the Great Molasses Flood and address the issue of whether there are points along the accident chain when alternate decisions can avoid a calamity. The formative performance tasks help students build knowledge and practice skills so they can answer the supporting questions. Students create an evidence-based argument to answer the compelling question.
Students use the engineering design process to prepare a sample of gluep that can best meet their goal.
This lesson will allow students to think about and understand the route that a food service product takes in order to get to the customer from start (customer ordering) to finish (delivery to customer). Students will also brainstorm and research the different departments/specific careers that are needed in order to accomplish this goal of food service distribution. ServSafe will also be explored since we are discussing products that are food related.
You are an employee of Green Valley Dairy and your job is to determine the mass of the company’s corn silage pile. Your boss knows that this pile is the limiting factor as to whether or not he can add animals to the herd. He is contemplating adding 500 head of cattle and needs to make sure there is enough feed in storage before they make the expansion...don’t mess up your measurements and calculations, as this is pivotal information.
Most people don’t realize that manufacturing is all around them and that almost everything they use is manufactured. Students will be shown ores, steel billets, forged steel, and finished steel parts. Students will learn about how raw materials are mined and then transported from factory to factory in order to be turned into the products that are all around us.
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” How many times does a young adult get asked this question? This is an important decision and definitely not an easy one. This lesson (semester project) allows the student to take a closer look at what they might enjoy as a career or more importantly – what they might discover isn’t what they want in a job!