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.

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.

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If You Like Looking Inside Computers....
This activity challenges students to evaluate their computer expertise.
 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.

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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.
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.

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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. 
 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. 

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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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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.

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Updated5/11/03