Lesson+Ideas

**Lesson Plan Ideas for Science Career Day**
|| **Science Career and Work** || (and their fit within the curriculum) || Students will develop an awareness of personal abilities, skills, interests and motivators.
 * Pre-event Lesson Plan: ** ||
 * Preparation for grade 5 to 8 science career fair ** ||
 * Preparation for grade 5 to 8 science career fair ** ||
 * ** Content Area(s) **
 * = Essential Question = || Is there a connection between your skills and interests and the career you might choose? ||
 * = Concepts =

Students will develop and awareness of the benefits of educational achievement.

Students will develop the computer skills to understand and use career information.

Students will develop and awareness of the career planning process. || || 40 Minutes || (Students will be able to . . .) || Students will be able to consider what their personal skills are.
 * = Approximate Duration =
 * ** PA Standards and/or Anchors ** || PA Career Education and Work Academic Standards 13.1.5 ABEFH, 13.1.8 ABEFH, 13.3.5 G, 13.3.8 G ||
 * ** Technology Standards ** || PA Science and Technology Standards 3.7.7 CDE ||
 * = Learning Objectives =
 * Corresponding List of **
 * Bloom’s Taxonomy Level(s) **
 * of Higher Order Thinking **

Students will be able to consider their skills and compare them to skills needed for various jobs.

Students will be able to consider what education or training they will need for this career choice.

Students will be able to research their career choices. || (step by step lesson procedures so that another teacher may implement this project) || I. Consider: What kinds of jobs do your parents have? What kind of jobs interest you? Was there a connection between your parents' skills and interests and their jobs?
 * Outline of Project Lessons

II. Define what are skills and what are talents.

III. Identify their skills and talents

IV. Utilitze software to make connections between skills and interests and their career choices. || (software, websites, references, equipment, supplies, etc.) || Possible Sites:
 * == Resources/Materials ==

http://www.bls.gov/k12/

http://www.careercruising.com ||
 * ** Collaboration **

(w/media specialist, other staff)
|| School Guidance Department MAGPI Fellows - Career Education and Work Team || (rubric, observation, checklist, etc. with electronic copies attached or uploaded as a folder) || After completing this project did you discover a career interesting to you?
 * ** Assessment **

Will the information help you choose high school courses and plan for a career?

Did you discover any relationship between your skills and interests and a career? || (showcasing of student products)
 * == Sharing ==

|| We will share this event with other MAGPI Fellows. ||

**Links**
http://www.rollins.edu/careerservices/selfassessment/skillsandinterests.htm http://www.llsta.org/witw/index.html http://www.llsta.org/MS/techknowledge.htm http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/ http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/tools_tips/multimedia/podcasts http://www.careercruising.com/default.aspx

**The students need to share what they learned and how this will affect their career choice. The students will need to create some project that represents their response to the essential question -** Is there a connection between your skills and interests and the career you might choose?
 * Post-event Lesson Plan: **