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Lessons for 6th to 8th Graders |
| Unit 1: Career Exploration and Planning | Teacher guides for Unit 1 Includes student personal assessment tools and summary. |
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Take My Picture An extensive interactive activity to explore student's interests, skills, and abilities. |
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Pulling It Together An interactive activity to summarize information about one's self to be used in other units and in subsequent activities. |
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Job For Kids Who Like.... This is an interactive site where students can explore careers in their areas of academic strengths. |
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| Unit 2: Envisioning Your Future | Cover sheet describing Unit 2: sites that explore all pathways. |
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So You Want to
Be an Engineer A wonderful web site that has the students exploring the field of engineering. This site and activity is teacher directed and has several games on line for the students. |
| If You Like Looking
Inside Computers.... This activity challenges students to evaluate their computer expertise. |
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| Teacher Guide | Career Fair Interest
Survey A web-based survey that students fill out and print out for the teachers. A useful activity designed to help the teacher get ideas for career fairs, either locally or through the cyber world. |
| Teacher Guide | Job Shadowing A reproducible packet for students to use as they visit a job site. |
| Unit 3: Careers for Tomorrow | Cover sheet describing Unit3: uses labor market information to analyze occupational and economic trends and how they impact career options. |
| Changes in the
Workplace Students will use the internet for researching occupational trends, both globally and locally. The information is used in creating graphs that demonstrate labor trends. |
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| Technology In the Workforce Local Business representatives visit or communicate with the classroom to discuss how technology is changing the workforce. |
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| Career
at NASA Students will explore the many careers that are offered by the space program. |
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| Aeronautics Everything you always wanted to know about flight. Experiments you can do in your classroom. |
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| Teacher Guide | Tis the Season Students invite community members that employ or are employed as seasonal workers to explain how the seasonal workforce effects local economy and how their lifestyle differs from other types of careers. |
| Teacher Guide | Bear or Bullish Students learn about the stock market and how it effects the local economy and their lifestyle. |
| Unit 4: Down The Road | Cover sheet describing Unit 4: Students identify education and training needed for jobs within a career pathway, including self-employment. |
| Tell Me How A hands-on lesson in how to write instructions and read them. Ties in SCAN skills. |
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| What's It Going
to Cost Students will use network searches to find costs of education/training for their chosen field. |
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| Unit 5: What Now? | Cover sheet describing Unit 5: Students w3ill research resources to support education and training beyond high school. |
| Teacher Guide | Writing Letter of Request The students learn to write a persuasive business block style letter. The students apply these skills to writing a letter to request support (scholarships, training, etc.) from a Alaska Process Industry Careers Consortium Member. |
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Here's Looking
at You A web based resume writing activity. A resume for each student is the final product. |
| The Art of Interviewing An activity that gets students talking to local business people as well as getting them the skills for both one-to-one interviews and phone interviews. |
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Student Page (web site) |
Great Jobs in
Alaska Students can explore summer jobs available in Alaska. Use the downloaded job application provided by Alaska Parks Service to get a job or learn to fill in job applications. |
| Career Profiles | Career Profiles Interviews with Alaskans in a variety of careers. |