Students will read each statement and select the statements that are true about themselves. The responses will be used to generate a list of careers in the student's top two or three career clusters.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students will build bridges and cantilevers with straws to experience many of the basic physics and engineering concepts inherent in structures.
Material Type: Lesson
Students will be able to identify the parts and format of a friendly letter. Students will write a friendly letter using the appropriate format and proper spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and grammar. Students will also be able to identify the parts of an e-mail message and write and send e-mail messages. Students will communicate with an e-pal according to a specified timeline. (Confirm permission with your district and county officials before implementing this lesson.)
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Students will be able to identify traits of strong familiies and recognize the traits in their own families as well as others. Students, then, create a PSA to help spread the word on the importance of strong families.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Students will identify what is important to them and begin setting educational and personal goals.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Students will be able to describe the benefits and challenges of being self-employed and the qualities a person needs to possess to be self-employed.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This comprehensive resource from Bio-Link is an alphabetical listing of careers related to biotechnology. Each listing includes a detailed job description, salary information, education and training requirements, and links to short videos that contain additional information and/or interviews with people in that career.
Material Type: Reading
This resource provides a source matrix that compares the employability skills identified by a sample of national and state standards and assessments used to develop the Employability Framework.
Material Type: Reading
This short video lesson explains the contribution dogs have made to the treatment of diabetes through the discovery of insulin. Assessment and discussion questions, as well as links to additional resources, are included.
Material Type: Lesson
This resource is a collection of lab safety rules typed on individual cards.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This online agricultural magazine for kids contains articles that define each of the major areas of agricultural science, including agricultural business, plant science, animal science, ag mechanics, environmental services, food science, and natural resources. Career descriptions are included for each area.
Material Type: Reading
This online agricultural magazine for kids contains articles about the sheep farming industry.
Material Type: Reading
This online agricultural magazine for kids contains articles about the poultry production industry.
Material Type: Reading
This online agricultural magazine for kids contains articles about the beef cattle production industry.
Material Type: Reading
This online agricultural magazine for kids contains articles about the horse farming industry.
Material Type: Reading
This online agricultural magazine for kids contains articles about the pork production industry.
Material Type: Reading
Students will explore Spanish language versions of more than 300 careers, organized into the 16 career clusters.
Material Type: Lesson
This short video explains how a school district in Iowa is learning and earning with wind power.
Material Type: Lesson
With this resource students will be introduced to the Waybright family of Mason-Dixon Farms near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Students will see the improvements of state-of-the-art milking parlors to a waste system that doesn’t let cow manure go to waste. This historic farm is a living laboratory.
Material Type: Lesson
With this resource students will be introduced to Scott Tucker owner of Maple Leaf Duck Farms. Duck is a specialty product that’s big in Asia and growing quickly in the U.S.
Material Type: Lesson
