Education Standards
Oh! The Places You Will Go Career Lesson
Overview
This lesson is the first of three career presentations for 9th-10th graders. It includes an interest inventory, skills assessment, and values inventory to help students choose three possible careers. The results of these inventories are to be placed in an ePortfolio and shared with classmates. Each student is to comment on three of their classmates' ePortfolio.
Lesson Plan
Oh! The Places You Will Go Lesson Plan
STANDARDS:
9-10.M.1 Seek and participate in challenging learning activities related to career goals.
9-10.LS.5 Able to acquire knowledge of various career clusters through exploration (field trips, job site tours, job shadows, mentors, etc.).
THEME:
Careers
LESSON TOPIC:
Careers
OBJECTIVES:
Language: Students will be able to explain the difference between a career and a job.
Content: Students will be able to identify three careers that relate to the students' area of interest.
LEARNING STRATEGIES:
Videos
Song
PowerPoint
Discussion
Lab Activity with online assessments
Project-Base Learning
REQUISITE KNOWLEDGE:
Students need a third-grade reading level. Also need to know how to use a computer, access the web, and have Wi-Fi access.
KEY VOCABULARY:
Career – an occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life and with opportunities for progress.
Job – a paid position of regular employment.
Value – the regard that something is held to deserve; the importance, worth, or usefulness of something.
Skill – ability to do something.
MATERIALS:
Computers
Brief Case made of a file folder with paper in it
Pen
Video
Frayer's Square
Virtual Card Sort
MOTIVATION:
(Building background)
Song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aKw2qdtNWA
Bruce Springsteen: "Dream Baby Dream"
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcxw2pt_E3E
Job vs. Career – Difference between job and career
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXbb-QGigwA
Overview of CareerOneStop.org for Workforce Professionals
PRESENTATION:
(Language and content objectives, comprehensible input, strategies, interaction, feedback)
Oh! The Places You'll Go Career Presentation.
PRACTICE AND APPLICATION:
(Meaningful activities, interaction, practice, application, feedback)
CareerOneStop Assessments
https://www.careeronestop.org/ExploreCareers/Assessments/interests.aspx
REVIEW AND ASSESSMENT:
(Review objectives and vocabulary, assess learning)
Portfolio Presentation – Google Website Creation
Comment on three peers' portfolios on Padlet.
EXTENSION:
Apply to college or career program.
DIFFERENTIATION:
Enrichment – Have students explore the economic outlook for the careers they like. Also, have them explore the impact of a career in the same area with more education and with less education.
Remediate – Have students explore one career or job using a virtual card sort.
ELL – Have students complete a Frayer's Square for the vocabulary and access the Spanish version of CareerOneStop if applicable.