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Occupation/Career Research

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1. Go to the Onet website (https://www.onetonline.org/). 2. In the upper right-hand corner, type in your occupation/career choice and hit Enter. 3. From the list that appears, find your occupation/career and click on it. 4. Scroll through the page (in order) to write down the information below. Describe the occupation/career. (Use Summary information at the top of the screen.) What type of education is required by the majority of people who are working in this occupation/career? (Click the blue Education link at the top-right of the page.) Name two related occupation/career. (Scroll down to this section.) 1. 2. What is the National Wages/Salary? (Scroll down to this section and click on Local Salary button, scroll down to Wisconsin and click Go.) 1. Low National 2. High National

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Dani Schott

Job Shadow Day

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JOB SHADOW INTERVIEW QUESTIONS Student Name: Date of Job Shadowing Experience: Occupation/Profession being shadowed: Name of person being shadowed: Place of employment being shadowed: Years employed in occupation: Years/months employed in current job: What does your company do? What is your job title? What skills are needed to do your job? How did your education help prepare you for your job? Did your company do any additional training for you to perform this job? How did you get your job? What process was involved (testing, interview...)? What personality traits and attitudes are important? What related jobs did you have before this job? What is your work schedule (flexible, nights, specific hours...)?

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Dani Schott

Who would you like to meet?

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Students should start by creating lists of businesses that can be found in and around their community.  Small and large careers should be given consideration. Using this list created by your students, you are now adding to your personal supply of possible people to invite to participate in your local career fair.  Creating a solid foundation and networking using the knowledge of your students can be very beneficial in opening new opportunities to your school district. 

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Author: Dani Schott

5S Lean Manufacturing

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This will be a year-long lesson that is graded quarterly. Students will follow the 5S Lean workforce model daily when working in the shop areas. 5S stands for Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain, and sometimes a 6th S stands for Safety. This model will help students with daily reminders on how we should maintain the shop and perform in the shop.

Material Type: Lesson

Author: Shawn Porath

The Chemistry of Paper-making Unit

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This series of activities in this unit provides background knowledge for students to ultimately understand the science of papermaking at a molecular level. These activities will include learning about carbohydrates, building models to demonstrate how polysaccharides form in condensation reactions, watching videos describing the general steps in the papermaking process, and learning about how additives to pulp can enhance the overall strength of a finished paper product. This knowledge will be used to provide the tools for students to explore papermaking in an inquiry-based format. Upon demonstration of the basics of making handmade paper with a papermaking kit, students will be challenged to change variables to determine which set of parameters results in the highest quality paper. This will truly be engineering design, but at the molecular level.

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Author: Candice Behnke

Communication and Soft Skills in the Workplace

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When talking to numerous departments at Reinhart Foodservice, all department heads emphasized the need for communication between departments and wanting to hire employees who possess excellent soft skills. For this unit, students will complete a job experience, job shadow, or community service experience where they will observe communication at the workplace as well as note examples of soft skills in the workplace. Students will also explain how they used communication skills and soft skills. Finally, they will present their findings in a PowerPoint presentation.

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Author: Marcy Siolka

Forging Using a 3D Printer

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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.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Todd Taylor

Interview Etiquette

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A main emphasis the Verso hiring department and department heads stressed was that students need to be well prepared for an interview. The interview will determine if they are hired. Having proper interview etiquette will give students an opportunity to excel during the interview process and provide the confidence required to succeed during an interview.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Michelle Mohelnitzky

Introduction to Steel

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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.

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Author: Todd Taylor

Marketing Presentation

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This lesson is based on observations of the marketing department at Reinhart Food Service. As a unit for Sports Literature class, students will complete a simulation to market and present a product using advertising techniques, digital media, writing and speaking skills. In groups of three to four students, each team with choose a product or aspect of a sport to market. Some examples include a new sporting goods store, online vendor, food product like a protein powder, drink or granola bar, themed restaurant, sports equipment. (Or use your imagination!) The product may be a one-of-a-kind-invention or an improvement on or variation of a current product. Students will learn advertising techniques, discuss morals in advertising, and practice their desktop publishing skills. Marketing teams will consider their target audience and how they want to reach that audience. They will create an advertising plan and present their products, print, radio and television advertisements to the class.

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Author: Marcy Siolka

Percent Composition of Ductile Iron

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Ductile iron, also called spheroidal graphite iron, is a type of graphite-rich cast iron. Due to the nodular graphite inclusions, ductile iron has a larger impact and is stress resistance, thus it is used for automobile parts. Students will solve percent composition problems after learning about the process of making ductile iron at Waupaca Foundry.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Cathy Smiley

What Makes a Strong Employee

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While at Verso Corporation, many discussions focused on what a hiring committee and manager/supervisor looks for in their employees. By investigating qualities that contribute to becoming a strong employee, students can understand what it takes to be a competitive employee in today’s workforce.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Laura Gunderson

Working with Ratios, Rates, and Conversions

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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.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Laura Gunderson

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