“Students are introduced to a new routine called Questions About Us. In this version, they figure out how many students are in the classroom today. Students then count objects in different collections in a way that makes sense to them.” Finally, students synthesize their learning by considering careers which require counting skills.
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In this lesson, students learn about the structure of picture graphs and bar graphs, the features of graphs that help communicate information clearly, and the information they can learn by analyzing a graph. Students learn that a key is the part of a picture graph that tells what each picture represents. Students contextualize and make sense of the data through the lens of an emerging career in Health Sciences.
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Students will review the relationship between dollars and cents, identify different types of coins, and use percentages and number lines to understand the value of a dollar. The application of this learning will be done through the lens of in-demand careers in the Business, Management, & Administration career pathway (page 16).
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“In this lesson, students see that the principles and strategies they used to reason about scaled copies are applicable to scale drawings (MP7). For example, previously they saw scale factor as a number that describes how lengths in a figure correspond to lengths in a copy of the figure (and vice versa). Now they see that scale serves a similar purpose: it describes how the lengths in an actual object are related to the lengths on a drawn representation of it. They learn that scale can be expressed in a number of ways, and use scale and scale drawings to find actual and scaled lengths.” Students will apply their knowledge of scaled drawings to understand tasks associated with careers in the Health Sciences career pathway (page 28).
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“This opening lesson invites students to experiment with expressions and equations to model a situation. Students think about relevant quantities, whether they might be fixed or variable, and how they might relate to one another. They make assumptions and estimates, and use numbers and letters to represent the quantities and relationships. The lesson also draws attention to the idea of constraints and how to represent them.” Through mathematical modeling, students will consider the costs of hosting a pizza party and consider how this relates to a career in the Business Administration-Finance regional career pathway.
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Students will recognize that basic educational skills are necessary in occupations throughout the community.
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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.
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Children will develop self-knowledge, basic understanding of interests, likes and dislikes, and discover jobs that fall within their selections of high interest.
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This lesson plan is designed to enhance understanding and awareness of essential soft skills and employability skills for success in the workplace.Learning Goals: Identify general job skills, attributes, and qualities associated with highly successful employees and undesirable employees.Define and know the difference between life skills, soft skills, career skills, and employability skills.Understand and apply job skills into the workplace.Identify personal job skills strengths and weakness.
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Students will explore different jobs throughout the community. Children will complete a self-awareness survey and explore careers in their community.
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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.
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Students will identify jobs known as “blue-collar” and identify opportunities, advantages of these jobs, and explore labor market data. Students will identify categories of jobs known as “blue-collar”. Students will assess the opportunities and advantages of these types of careers. Students will investigate labor market information and demand for occupations.
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This 7th-grade Biases and Career Choices lesson leads students through a comparison of two careers in the Xello platform.
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Students watch a video about different health-related careers. They will do a research project on one of the professions discussed. Students will learn about health careers and research careers and answer the prompts provided in the lesson.
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“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.
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In this lesson, students will learn what a scaled drawing is. They will describe characteristics of scaled copies and distinguish between scaled and unscaled drawings. Finally, students will connect their learning to the workplace and identify careers in the Architecture & Construction industry which use scaled drawings. LESSON LINKED BELOW
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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.
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Engineers perform energy audits to better understand how people use energy and identify ways people can conserve energy. Businesses and homeowners engage these engineers to help reduce their utility bills and help the environment. Recommendations often include using compact fluorescent light bulbs, lowering the thermostat temperature in the winter when the building is unoccupied, planting trees for shade, and improving insulation to reduce heat loss/gain.
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Using limited resources and time, students will use scientific processes to develop a product that meets their goals.
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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.
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