This video takes students through a real world problem solving process from start to finish. Students investigate the process of changing the shape of freeze-dried dog food patty from a cylinder to a square prism without changing the volume, density or weight of the patty’s materials. Will this change increase efficiency? Will this change decrease production cost?

In this lesson students will learn about food allergies and how food manufacturing companies, like McCain Foods, work hard to properly label foods and protect against cross contamination. Students will analyze data from allergen testing and make recommendations to improve cleaning procedures.

You are employees of competing water testing companies. You recently received a request from the municipality of Cavour to test their water for an unknown/suspected parasite that they suspect has been causing nausea and intestinal distress in their community.

Your mission is to develop the proper Method for testing for the parasite and provide a detailed lab report.

This lesson will give the student a basic understanding of how to identify materials and estimate woodworking material in a project. Teacher or student can decide on a project to complete an estimate.

While touring the central lab area at Verso Corporation, the environmental engineers gave an example of how they use mathematics within their job responsibilities. Verso is mandated to complete environmental reports showing they meet the state environmental standards. Often times when data is collected, it is not in the proper units that the state reports require. This was something that both the environmental engineer and co-op engineer were working on--properly converting rates that are specified for the reports. Students will experience finding unit rates and using conversion factors to convert measurements and rates into alternate units of measure.

This lesson walks students through how to fill out a time card, how to figure out over time, what gets taken out of a pay check and how to fill out a time card with piece work.

Skills in foreign languages can benefit just about any career cluster! Specific Foreign Language-related careers can be found in the following Career Cluster Chart.