This resource informs students that a strong connection to others is essential to their physical and mental well being. This support system will be needed during periods of stress. Documents are included for students to complete concerning tips for relationships, dealing with loss, communication, etc.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This resource is an on-line version of the 4th Edition Roberts Rules of Order and contains up to date notations.
Material Type: Lesson
Students will choose a college based on their career goals and aspirations. In this lesson, students will select a career field, choose a field of study (major), and research college cost. Students will learn how to chart, graph, analyze and present the total cost of college in a spreadsheet.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
We all have "learned" abiilities and "natural" abillities. Students will learn about transferable skills vs. job-related skills As the students learn about transferable skills, they will learn how to translate their transferable skills to a resume. Students will also create a list of their transferable skills for future employment.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This resource lists a variety of employability skills lesson components in order for teachers to incorporate these skills into routine classroom activities. Hovering over the listed skill with the computer mouse will reveal examples of activities to put in a lesson. Students can also be directed to use this checklist to create a student skills profile.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This resource provides an interactive game for students which challenges them to spot the differences between two U.S. Department of Labor publication covers. As students note differences, they are provided with feedback concerning the correctness of their selections and their results are scored. This actvity assesses student’s attention to detail and the difficulty levels can be set at easy, medium, or hard.
Material Type: Interactive
In this resource, students will play a game (adapted from Who Wants to be a Millionaire) complete with music, as a review of careers found in the five pathways of health care. A worksheet with information about the five healthcare pathways is provided. Relevant web site links are included.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This resource challenges students to investigate a variety of healthcare careers related to therapeutic services, diagnostic services, health informatics, support services, and biomedical research and development pathways. Students will use a variety of research techniques to explore job descriptions, education, costs, salary, etc. This information will assist students in creating a career plan.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This course is designed to teach individuals to perform marketing and management functions and tasks associated with owning and operating a small business. Students will develop a business plan, learn appropriate customer service and human relation skills and demonstrate positive work habits.
Material Type: Full Course, Lesson Plan
In this interactive, experience-based entrepreneurship exercise students learn basic economic principles related to trade. The purpose of this activity, developed by Allen Distinguished Educator Jodie Woodruff, is to highlight the assumed self-interest in trade, and potential benefits of mutual gain.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
In this lesson, students will explore the persistence of the American Dream by juxtaposing the writings of Horatio Alger Jr. and John Steinbeck with the artistic output of Elvis and Cash. If the American Dream as an ideology has always been a balance between myth and reality, these artists, and Rock and Roll culture more generally, gave the myth something real. Through a survey of literature, album art, songs, television news reports, film, and other materials, students will examine how these artists became symbols of the American Dream for their many fans.
Material Type: Full Course
Student led IEPs allow the student to be actively engaged in the process of planning the meeting as well as being an active participant in the meeting. This activity introduces the development of a Google slide presentation by the student that will be shared as the main focus of the IEP meeting.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
In this lesson, students will consider the many kinds of communities that exist, and reflect on their own special ties to a community they are a part of. After watching the video for "Sunday Candy," and hearing the poetry of Chicago-based Kevin Coval, students will hold their own poetry slam featuring poems about community.
Material Type: Full Course
In this lesson, students will identify the origins of Third Wave Feminism and explore the diversity of the movement's demands, attitudes, and tactics by immersing themselves in three musical cultures from the 1990s: the Riot Grrrl punk rock scene exemplified by the band Bikini Kill, the female-fronted hip hop scene exemplified by Salt-N-Pepa, and the Tejano music sphere exemplified by Selena.
Material Type: Full Course
In this lesson, students will evaluate what the emergence of the Girl Groups says about the roles of girls and women in the early 1960s, as the nation sat on the threshold of a new Women's Rights movement that would challenge traditional female roles. In 1963, Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique, widely considered a milestone in the emerging feminist movement and it came at the peak of the Girl Groups' popularity. Did the success of the Girl Groups signal a new female empowerment, under which girls and women could finally come out from the shadows of Rock and Roll and tell the world what was on their minds? Or did the very labels "Girl Group" and "girl singer" and the focus of so many of their songs on the search for the ideal man simply reflect the traditional domestic roles of women as wives and mothers?
Material Type: Full Course
Students will understand the structural importance of the arch shape in bridge design. Students will compare and contrast modern arch bridges to historical arch bridges. Students will design and sketch their own arch bridge design.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Students will learn the geometry and structural importance of a truss which allows it to be used to make bridges. Students will work in pairs to design, build, and test the strength of their own small wooden truss bridge. Students will know the importance of materials used in truss bridges.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Students will understand what a cable-stayed bridge is and its structural importance. Students will identify the different key parts of a cable-stayed bridge. Students will study how the forces of compresion and tension are distributed on this type of bridge. Students will make comparisons between cable stayed bridges and other bridges that they are familiar with. Students will design and construct a scale sketch of their own cable-stayed bridge.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Students will understand how suspension bridges work. Students will identify the main parts of a suspension bridge. Students will know the signifigance of suspension bridges to modern construction. Students will design and draw their own suspension bridge. Students will learn what civil engineers put into consideration when designing a suspention bridge.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Networking is an important skill. Students will do a series of activities that focus on the process of networking and its relevance and importance to career development. Students will learn about taking initiative and overcoming fear, informational interviewing, as well as potential guidelines to consider when using social networks.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
