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Students will explore occupations and the education
needed for specific careers. |
Primary Learning Outcomes
What career am I interested in? What are the educational
requirements for entering that field?
Additional Learning Outcomes
Assessed QCC Standards:
Grade: 5
Guidance
B. Educational and Occupational Exploration
4
Topic: Awareness
of the benefits of educational achievement.
Standard: Describe how academic skills can
be used in the home and community. Identify personal strengths and weaknesses in
subject areas. Identify academic skills needed in several occupational groups.
Describe relationships among ability, effort, and achievement. Implement a plan
of action for improving academic skills. Describe school tasks that are similar
to skills essential for job success. Describe how the amount of education needed
for different occupational levels varies.
5
Topic: Awareness
of the relationship between work and learning.
Standard: Identify different types of work,
both paid and unpaid. Describe the importance of preparing for occupations.
Demonstrate effective study and information-seeking habits. Demonstrate an
understanding of the importance of practice, effort, and learning. Describe how
current learning relates to work. Describe how one’s role as a student is like
that of an adult worker.
Procedures/Activities
Step:
1 Duration: 15 min.
Have students select a job they think they might like to have.
Make a cardboard tag, write the name of the occupation on it, and display it in
the classroom. Discuss educational requirements for the jobs that students
selected.
Step: 2 Duration: several
days at home
Have students conduct a poll of neighborhood workers. Ask the
following questions: a.What is your job? b.Did you have to go to high school to
get your job? c.Did you have to attend a postsecondary school to get your job?
d.Did your employer train you after you were hired? e.Could you have gotten your
job without any job education?
Step:
3 Duration: 15 min.
Have students tabulate the results and reach some conclusions,
based on their findings.
Step:
4 Duration: 15 min.
Develop a class chart of the findings (include such things as
percentage of jobs requiring high school education, percentage requiring more
than a high school education).
Step:
5 Duration: 5 min.
Have students discuss the results of their survey. What do the
results indicate? Which student-selected jobs were included in the
survey?
Materials and Equipment
Cardboard, Markers, Crayons, Chart paper
Standards (Local and/or National)
Total Duration
45 min.
Technology Connection
Assessment
Students' participation in the activity will be
evluated.
Extension
Have students choose a career and research the amount of
postsecondary education required.
Remediation
Invite a professional from a local college or university to
come into your class and discuss postsecondary education.
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.
