Students will choose an engineering sub-discipline of their choice and present information about it to their peers in a presentation style of their choice. The presentation must include some type of multimedia format (Powerpoint, Prezi, Slides, Keynote, etc.)
Material Type: Lesson Plan
The scenario is that the student is working in the engineering department of a manufacturing plant. The plant has access to a wide variety of machining tools, so it is customary for them to make or repair their own parts as things wear out. Many of the parts are unique to the equipment at the facility, so it is impossible to simply order one from some outside supplier. Even if a part was available, it is cost prohibitive to buy new. Students will be provided with a small piece of machinery that they must reverse engineer the dimensions. For middle school level students, the geometry will be kept rather simple and the measurements straightforward. For high school students, the geometry can become more complex, requiring some drafting skill, caliper use, and higher level CAD design. Once the students take all the necessary measurements, then using CAD (Tinkercad for the lower grades), they will build up a virtual mock-up of the part. From there, the option would be to teach additive or reductive design. The part could be recreated using either a CNC or 3D printer.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Check out these links to various STEM career resources that you can use as part of your classroom curriculum today.
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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.
Material Type: Reading
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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“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.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Students will recognize that basic educational skills are necessary in occupations throughout the community.
Material Type: Lesson
Children will develop self-knowledge, basic understanding of interests, likes and dislikes, and discover jobs that fall within their selections of high interest.
Material Type: Lesson
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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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.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
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.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students brainstorm ways that they use — and waste — natural resources. Also, they respond to some facts about population growth and how people use petroleum. Lastly, students consider the different ways that engineers interact with and use our natural resources. Also meet Dustin Madden, an Iñupiaq and assistant science teacher in the Anchorage, Alaska, school district, in this video profile produced by WGBH. Madden explains the importance of developing a strong background in science and math in order to help preserve and protect the environment. He also discusses how his cultural upbringing has influenced him, and how he tries to reach out to students who have grown up in rural Alaska.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students brainstorm ways that they use — and waste — natural resources. Also, they respond to some facts about population growth and how people use petroleum. Lastly, students consider the different ways that engineers interact with and use our natural resources. Also meet Dustin Madden, an Iñupiaq and assistant science teacher in the Anchorage, Alaska, school district, in this video profile produced by WGBH. Madden explains the importance of developing a strong background in science and math in order to help preserve and protect the environment. He also discusses how his cultural upbringing has influenced him, and how he tries to reach out to students who have grown up in rural Alaska.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
The purpose of this activity is for students to complete a half or full day job shadow in the chosen career field, interview, and submit reflection paper.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive, Lesson, Self Assessment
Goal setting is powerful and critical life skill. Goals allow us to turn our vision of the future into our reality. Goals provide us short-term direction and long-term vision. To set big life goals, we must first dream big and create a list of all the things we would like to see, do, and accomplish throughout our lifetime. From there, we can set small goals that are measurable and achievable. Then, we get to work! Goals can be integrated into all areas of our life. We can strive to be more successful in our classes, faster on the court, or active every day. Goal setting is about making ourselves better, happier, and healthier. For the rest of the school year, we are going to set goals related to our academic success, personal well-being, and career preparation. When we set our goals, we want to be sure that we are working towards something we want to ACHIEVE and simply make ourselves better. Self goals are in fact goals to better ourselves NOT the people around us. Remain true to you!
Material Type: Activity/Lab
The purpose of this activity is to show students that Career Matchmaker provides individualized feedback for their career choices based on how they answer a set of questions. Uses Career Cruising (Xello).
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive, Lesson, Self Assessment
This classroom activity introduces students to the 16 career clusters, and provides them an opportunity to find two careers to match each career cluster in a group activity.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Game, Lesson Plan
