Career Choices Are Changing |
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Students will explore new careers that were not an
option for their grandparents. |
Primary Learning Outcomes
How is life different today than when my grandparents were my
age? What careers do we have now that they didn't have then?
Additional Learning Outcomes
Assessed QCC Standards:
Grade: 3
Guidance
B. Educational and Occupational Exploration
6
Topic: Skills to
understand and use career information.
Standard:
Describe work of family members, school personnel, and
community workers. Identify occupations according to data, people, and things.
Identify work activities of interest to the student. Describe the relationship
of beliefs, attitudes, interests, and abilities to occupations. Describe jobs
that are present in the local community. Identify the working conditions of
occupations (e.g., , inside/outside, hazardous). Describe ways in which
self-employment differs from working for others. Describe how parents,
relatives, adult friends, and neighbors can provide career information.
Procedures/Activities
Step:
1 Duration: 15 min.
Use magazines to find pictures of things that students’
grandparents did not have, such as computers, car phones, VCRs, computer mouse,
space shuttle.
Step: 2 Duration: 5
min.
Brainstorm in small groups how the world has
changed.
Step: 3 Duration: 5
min.
Discuss each picture and list various jobs that are related to
the picture. Be sure to include repair personnel, advertising personnel,
programmers, etc.
Step: 4 Duration: 5
min.
Glue pictures to a display, listing related careers for each
one.
Materials and Equipment
Magazines, newspapers, Glue, scissors, Markers
Standards (Local and/or National)
Total Duration
30 min.
Technology Connection
Assessment
Students' participation in the activity will be
evaluated.
Extension
Have students predict what life will be like for their
grandchildren and what new careers will emerge.
Remediation
Help students think of jobs that have been eliminated by our
new technology in the last 50 years.
Accommodation
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.
