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Students will identify the physical activities
associated with various jobs and roles. |
Primary Learning Outcomes
What are the physical aspects of some selected careers? How
can I act out the physical activities in those careers?
Additional Learning Outcomes
Assessed QCC Standards:
Grade: 5
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: 5 min.
Explain to the class that different members will be asked to
demonstrate activities in different job roles. They are not allowed to use any
verbal cues. Secretly give each student an occupation to perform. Suggested
occupations include teacher, farmer, banker, truck driver, fast food worker,
carpenter, artist.
Step:
2 Duration: 20 min.
Students then take turns acting out the worker’s duties, while
the rest of the class will guess what jobs are being acted out.
Step: 3 Duration: 5 min.
Have the student discuss the physical activities of the job he
or she just performed. Is there a lot of activity or little activity? Is there a
great deal of heavy lifting or very little? Can the job be performed by both men
and women? Why or why not?
Materials and Equipment
Standards (Local and/or National)
Total Duration
30 min.
Technology Connection
Assessment
Students' participation in the activity will be
evaluated.
Extension
Ask students to use the resources in the Media Center to
locate further resources on one of the careers and prepare a short report to
share with the class.
Remediation
Ask several workers from the community to come to your class
to discuss the physical aspects of their jobs.
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.
