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
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
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
This lesson is designed to make future livestock producers understand what concerns the American consumer has when it comes to livestock production systems. Students will be given the opportunity to develop their own definition of "holistic livestock management" and learn the basics for utilizing these techniques. Students will also be brought up to speed on the most recent laws and regulations that impact the livestock industry and consumers.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
5 videos with formative questions embedded in each video pertaining to each. Can be done as a solo or partner lesson. May take 2 days. I typically start with some preset work and plan on stopping and coming togethert after the first three ot review and get feedback. There will be a summative assessment at the end.
Material Type: Unit of Study
While using this object, students are introduced to new information about Costa Rica. It is reinforced with short facts and questions, and reviewed to strengthen their new knowledge of the concept. Students can access Kahoot from a computer or mobile device. As the teacher displays questions on the screen, students answer from their devices, and are given instant feedback. Percentages of each answer chosen are then displayed on the screen. As a bonus, students can later play in "Ghost Mode" to review the material and beat their score. The object addresses the following world language standards: 2.1.M.G.a Recognize important features of country(s) where language is spoken 2.1.M.G.c Identify major geographic features (rivers, mountains, deserts, forests)
Material Type: Interactive
Most people read and understand better when reading print. Usually when we are online, we are jumping around from place to place. To read online and really understand, we need to slow down and really think about what we are reading. In this lesson, students practice strategies to help them read deeply online. These strategies are based on the article in the lesson resources: "Strategies to Help Students 'Go Deep' When Reading Digitally" by Katrina Schwartz.Teacher copies the text from an online article into a Google Doc and shares it with students. Students use the highlighting tool to mark the most challenging vocabulary words and use strategies to determine their meaning. Then they develop a main idea for a paragraph by choosing one, two, three, and finally four words that make up the main idea. They type this above the paragraph and use formatting tools to make it a heading. As they repeat this process with additional paragraphs they are developing a summary of the article in the document outline.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This resource guide begins by outlining the theory underlying the literacy work and then lays out the framework for the supports included in the Readers series. Subsequent chapters describe and illustrate the specific content literacy and language development strategies that have been chosen as being of particularly high impact. Although most of the strategies can be used in multiple ways, we have chosen to present them as occurring "Before, During and After Reading" because of the importance of this mental model in effective content literacy instruction.
Material Type: Reading, Textbook
Students will be introduced to artworks that emphasize ideas over visual forms and consider how these works fit into or challenge their definitions of art; explore different methods of using language in art; consider the role of artists in making language-based Conceptual art.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
