Producers and Products

This activity from Smart Choices examines various everyday objects and asks students to list the careers involved in creating them.

Primary Learning Outcomes

What career options are available in various industries?

Additional Learning Outcomes

Assessed QCC Standards:

Grade: 9-12

Guidance

B. Educational and Occupational Exploration

Topic: Skills to prepare to seek, obtain, maintain, and change jobs.
Standard: -Demonstrate skills to locate, interpret, and use information about job openings and opportunities. -Demonstrate academic or vocational skills required for a full-time or part-time job. -Demonstrate skills and behaviors necessary for a successful job interview. -Demonstrate skills in preparing a resume and completing job applications. -Identify specific job openings. -Demonstrate skills to assess occupational opportunities (e.g., , working conditions, benefits, and opportunities for change). -Describe placement services available to make the transition from high school to civilian employment, the armed services or postsecondary education/training. -Demonstrate an understanding that job opportunities often require relocation. -Demonstrate skills necessary to function as a consumer and manage financial resources.

Non-Assessed QCC Standards:

Grade: 9-12

Guidance

B. Educational and Occupational Exploration

Topic: Understanding how societal needs and functions influence the nature and structure of work.
Standard: -Describe the effect of work on lifestyles. -Describe how society’s needs and functions affect the supply of goods and services. -Describe how occupational and industrial trends relate to training and employment. -Demonstrate an understanding of the global economy and how it affects each individual.

Procedures/Activities

Step: 1 Duration:

Place various objects in the container and divide the class into as many groups as you have objects.

Step: 2 Duration:

Have one student from each group select an object.

Step: 3 Duration:

Once all objects have been selected, have students list as many careers as they can think of that are involved in making that object.

Step: 4 Duration:

Allow time for students to complete the activity and have them share their information with the other groups.

Step: 5 Duration:

Discuss their results with the entire class.

Materials and Equipment

Large container Objects to place in container: rubber gloves, pencil, computer disk, CD-ROM, etc.

Standards (Local and/or National)

Total Duration

1 hour

Technology Connection

Assessment

Students will be assessed according to their participation in the identification and discussion of objects and the fields they represent.

Extension

Fields of particular interest to students can by researched further by using Internet resources.

Remediation

Accommodation

For students with exceptional needs, what changes can be made in instruction and teaching delivery to enhance student participation and learning? Each area below is a direct link to general classroom accommodations.

Non-readers     Physical Impairments     Sensory Impairments     Attention/Behavior

Each disability below is a direct link to general classroom accommodations specific for that disability.

    Autism
    Deaf - Blind
    Deaf/Hard of Hearing
    Emotional and Behavioral Disorder
    Mild Intellectual Disability
    Orthopedic Impairment
    Other Health Impairment
        Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
        Tourette Syndrome
    Significant Development Delay
    Specific Learning Disability
    Speech - Language Impairment
    Traumatic Brain Injury
    Visual Impairment

Modification

For students with significant disabilities, what changes can be made in instruction and teaching delivery to allow students to participate in classroom instruction while working on IEP objectives and off grade level QCC standards. Below are suggested modifications correlated to the procedures of this lesson plan.