Lessons
Science and Technology

What do you want to DO when you grow up?
Students will use online tools and job search engines to explore career possibilities and the job market.
What do you want to DO when you grow up?

When am I ever going to need chemistry?
Students will be introduced to careers where chemistry is relevant to everyday life and will explore chemicals in familiar household products.
When am I ever going to need chemistry?

STEAM Jobs Around the World
Students will develop critical thinking skills as they investigate STEAM careers locally and internationally.
STEAM Jobs Around the World

You Be the Crime Scene Investigator
Students will learn that the world of crime scene investigation (CSI) is one that is highly scientific in nature and has many career paths.
You Be the Crime Scene Investigator

So you’re interested in a career in healthcare?
Students will explore the many career pathways associated with a career in healthcare.
So you’re interested in a career in healthcare?

Tip of the Career Iceberg
Students will explore the breadth of career opportunities through brainstorming, research and graphic organizers.
Tip of the Career Iceberg

Coding is For Everyone!
Students will learn the importance of computer programming skills across a variety of career areas and how these skills can make them more employable.
Coding is For Everyone!

Cybersecurity Career Exploration
Students will explore different possible working environments related to the field of cybersecurity.
Cybersecurity Career Exploration

Engineering a Future Career
Students explore the different branches of engineering and discover the similarities and differences between them.
Engineering a Future Career

Virtual Career Fairs for the Science Classroom
Students conduct a virtual exploration of careers and career pathways with connections to science.
Virtual Career Fairs for the Science Classroom

My STEAM Portfolio Website
Students will create a personal website to demonstrate the STEAM skills and concepts they have learned in class/school.
My STEAM Portfolio Website

Careers in the Great Outdoors
Students explore careers related to outdoors and the land and then design and build a water filter prototype.
Careers in the Great Outdoors

Design a Bike Lane
Students will plan the development of a bike lane and explore careers associated with such a development.
Design a Bike Lane

Careers in Physics
Students explore careers in the area of physics and relate their science classroom learning to specific careers.
Careers in Physics

Careers of the Future
Students will learn about potential careers of the future and create their own job description.
Careers of the Future

Exploring Career Sectors and Skills
Students will explore STEM career sectors and the skills required for a variety of STEM careers.
Exploring Career Sectors and Skills

How Does STEM Support Non-STEM Careers?
Students will explore how STEM skills are needed in non-STEM careers.
How Does STEM Support Non-STEM Careers?

STEM Skills and Self-Exploration
Students learn how the STEM skills that they develop in class apply to future career options.
STEM Skills and Self-Exploration

Query a Career Profile
Students will explore career profiles and relate them to what they are learning in science class.
Query a Career Profile

Exploring Engineering Careers
Students will learn about the different types of engineering and the various post-secondary pathways available.
Exploring Engineering Careers

Career Exploration : Volcanologist
Students construct a model of a volcano and explore the career of a volcanologist.
Career Exploration : Volcanologist

Noticing Form and Function in Our Lives
Students will explore how the form and function of common objects and structures are related.
Noticing Form and Function in Our Lives

Innovating with Form and Function
Students use their understanding of form and function to design an innovative object or device.
Innovating with Form and Function

Careers with Form and Function
Students explore careers that involve the concepts of form and function.
Careers with Form and Function

Aerodynamic Aviation Careers
Students will examine the aerodynamics of an airplane with the goal of improving an existing design and will explore careers associated with such a process.
Aerodynamic Aviation Careers

Learning About Technological Careers
Students will research careers and post-secondary pathways related to their current course.
Learning About Technological Careers

Demonstrating Skills in Technological Careers
Students will learn and demonstrate skills required in a career of interest.
Demonstrating Skills in Technological Careers

Exploring Skilled Trades and Apprenticeships
Students explore a variety of skilled trades careers and learn about training requirements.
Exploring Skilled Trades and Apprenticeships

Careers in Building and Design
Students explore careers that involve designing and building structures and devices.
Careers in Building and Design
Elementary/Middle School

Choose Your Own Adventure Autobiography
Students reflect upon the influences on their career path journeys to date and summarize these in an autobiographical poem or Powerpoint presentation.
Choose Your Own Adventure Autobiography

Testing the Waters
Students learn about how to gain experience and be exposed to, or “test the waters,” of careers that align with their personal occupational goals.
Testing the Waters

Light and Sound Inventions that Changed the World
Students will explore the societal impacts of inventions involving light and sound.
Light and Sound Inventions that Changed the World

Attributes and Skills of Innovators
Students explore the attributes and skills that can make someone a successful innovator.
Attributes and Skills of Innovators

Careers with Light and Sound
Students complete a jigsaw activity to learn about careers involving light and sound.
Careers with Light and Sound
Introduction to Career Development

Introduction to Career Development
Students are introduced to career development as a lifelong process as they visualize who, what and where they want to be when they graduate.
Introduction to Career Development

A STEM Scavenger Hunt
Students will explore the Let’s Talk Science careers resources and learn about career options that require, or benefit from, a background in STEM.
A STEM Scavenger Hunt

Introducing Career Options
Students will be introduced to career development and begin thinking about different career options.
Introducing Career Options

Tip of the Career Iceberg
Students will explore the breadth of career opportunities through brainstorming, research and graphic organizers.
Tip of the Career Iceberg

Visualizing Your Career
Using the process of visualization, students will start to identify preferred aspects of their ideal career.
Visualizing Your Career

Work Interests and the Holland Code
Students are introduced to the Holland Code framework and types of work interest themes. They are then challenged to identify their own career personality and occupational ideas.
Work Interests and the Holland Code

Flipgrid Career Showcase
Students will create videos showcasing a career profile that they are interested in.
Flipgrid Career Showcase
Employability Skills

What are Your Employability Skills
Students will create their Employability Skills Profile.
Students will identify employability skills in which they are strong and those that need work.
Students will develop plans to improve employability skills that need improving.
Students will be introduced to the concept of SMART goals.
Students will identify employability skills in which they are strong and those that need work.
Students will develop plans to improve employability skills that need improving.
Students will be introduced to the concept of SMART goals.
What are Your Employability Skills

The Skills Employers Look For
Students will identify the skills that employers look for in potential employees.
Students will recognize that they have skills and abilities that align with employer needs.
Students will make personal connection between their interests and current skills with the person in the career profile.
Students will recognize that they have skills and abilities that align with employer needs.
Students will make personal connection between their interests and current skills with the person in the career profile.
The Skills Employers Look For

What Skills do I Need for the Workplace?
Students will deepen their understanding of the concept of employability skills. Students will develop an awareness of opportunities available for those who have well-developed employability skills.
What Skills do I Need for the Workplace?

Your Personality and the Workplace
Students recognize the importance of the connection between life choices and their personal characteristics. Students will make connections between who they are now, the people they wish to become (their future selves), and their connections with work.
Your Personality and the Workplace

Untangling Your Skills
What important skills do students need to get untangled? Find out in this experiential activity that explores “essential skills”.
Untangling Your Skills

Communication is Key
Through hands-on activities, students will distinguish how social and work situations require both verbal and non-verbal means of communication.
Communication is Key

Global Competency Skills Inventory
Students will take inventory of their Global Competency skills, reflect on their strengths, and set next steps for mastery of these skills.
Global Competency Skills Inventory
Essential Skills

What are Essential Skills?
Students will understand the importance of the Nine Essential Skills.
Students will recognize the importance of each Essential Skill in their future careers and lives.
Students will recognize the importance of each Essential Skill in their future careers and lives.
What are Essential Skills?

Untangling Your Skills
What important skills do students need to get untangled? Find out in this experiential activity that explores “essential skills”.
Untangling Your Skills
Career Adaptability – Change & Growth

BYO Career Development Timeline
Students will come to see themselves as people who have skills and knowledge that are valuable to entering the world of work.
Students will recognize that skills and abilities are developed in both formal and informal settings.
Students will recognize that skills and abilities are developed in both formal and informal settings.
BYO Career Development Timeline

What’s your Plan B?
Students will recognize the importance of flexibility and adaptability when it comes to career choices.
Students will recognize that previous education is an asset that provides for great flexibility and adaptability.
Students will recognize that previous education is an asset that provides for great flexibility and adaptability.
What’s your Plan B?

Choose Your Own Adventure Autobiography
Students reflect upon the influences on their career path journeys to date and summarize these in an autobiographical poem or Powerpoint presentation.
Choose Your Own Adventure Autobiography

What do you want to DO when you grow up?
Students will use online tools and job search engines to explore career possibilities and the job market.
What do you want to DO when you grow up?

Responding to Life’s Curveballs
Students will explore what it means to be adaptable and flexible, and learn how to solve problems in a proactive way with respect to career planning.
Responding to Life’s Curveballs

How do I decide?
Students will explore a variety of decision-making strategies, and reflect on their decision-making style.
How do I decide?

Is This For Me? Reflecting On Occupational Fit
Students engage in self-reflection as they consider occupational fit and how various career options align with their personal strengths and preferences.
Is This For Me? Reflecting On Occupational Fit

Taking Risks in Your Career
Students learn about different ways that people take risks in their careers.
Taking Risks in Your Career
Personal Management & Planning

Choosing a Credit Card
Students will identify and distinguish between different types of credit cards, develop an understanding of credit cards costs and features, and learn how to shop for a credit card.
Choosing a Credit Card

How do I decide?
Students will explore a variety of decision-making strategies, and reflect on their decision-making style.
How do I decide?

Discrimination in the Workplace
Students define workplace discrimination and analyze scenarios.
Discrimination in the Workplace

Taking Risks in Your Career
Students learn about different ways that people take risks in their careers.
Taking Risks in Your Career

Is This For Me? Reflecting On Occupational Fit
Students engage in self-reflection as they consider occupational fit and how various career options align with their personal strengths and preferences.
Is This For Me? Reflecting On Occupational Fit
Lifestyle and Aspirations

What’s My Lifestyle?
Students will realize that high salaries are not always equated with a great lifestyle.
What’s My Lifestyle?

Exploring Motivational Factors
Students will explore motivational factors that influence a person’s career on a daily basis.
Students will recognize motivational factors that are similar to their own.
Student will identify the factors that motivate or are important to them as they explore or plan for future career opportunities.
Students will recognize motivational factors that are similar to their own.
Student will identify the factors that motivate or are important to them as they explore or plan for future career opportunities.
Exploring Motivational Factors

Instagram It
Students choose a career to research and create an Instagram profile about that career choice.
Instagram It

Career Talk Show
Students will research a career (or career sector) and role-play being a person in that career being interviewed by a talk show host.
Career Talk Show
Career Preparations

Factors Affecting Career Choice
Students explore and discuss factors they should consider when they are planning a career path.
Factors Affecting Career Choice

Creating Your Career Documentary
Students will engage in a ‘forward thinking’ exercise. This exercise addresses the following: what they want from life, the skills and abilities they have now that are useful for future career decisions, the skills and abilities they will need to develop, and how they are going to connect who they are with who they want to be and what they want to do.
Creating Your Career Documentary

Learning from the Experience of Others
Students will recognize the benefit of seeking advice from those experienced in specific career areas that interest them.
Learning from the Experience of Others

Making Informed Career Choices
Students will learn that possessing the right kind of information is important for making an informed career decision as well as for future career success and stability.
Making Informed Career Choices

Exploring Career Types
Students will recognize that there are many different ways to earn a living and that a ‘career’ does not necessarily have to be a 9 to 5 arrangement.
Students will recognize that different career types and job arrangements have their own positive and negative aspects.
Students will recognize that different career types and job arrangements have their own positive and negative aspects.
Exploring Career Types

What Influences our Career Choices?
Students will develop the understanding that there are many things that influence a person’s career choice.
What Influences our Career Choices?

Learning About Educational Pathways
Students will be aware of and understand the importance of, various learning pathways that lead to successful life and work experiences.
Students will become aware of the variety of STEM careers available in each of these different learning pathways.
Students will become aware of the variety of STEM careers available in each of these different learning pathways.
Learning About Educational Pathways

The Role of Personal Skills and Interests
Students will further develop their understanding and appreciation of the importance of personal interests, skills, achievements as well as previous job skills and experiences to the career development process.
The Role of Personal Skills and Interests

Work Interests and the Holland Code
Students are introduced to the Holland Code framework and types of work interest themes. They are then challenged to identify their own career personality and occupational ideas.
Work Interests and the Holland Code

Testing the Waters
Students learn about how to gain experience and be exposed to, or “test the waters,” of careers that align with their personal occupational goals.
Testing the Waters

Mapping My Volunteer and Work Experience
Students learn how to find a volunteer and work experience and then develop a detailed plan to apply for one of these experiences.
Mapping My Volunteer and Work Experience

Instagram It
Students choose a career to research and create an Instagram profile about that career choice.
Instagram It
Occupational Clusters

A Virtual Career Fair
Students will learn about various careers, and career pathways, through their review of various career profiles.
Students will continue to develop their understanding of the importance of STEM courses/programs for future career pathways.
Students will continue to develop their understanding of the importance of STEM courses/programs for future career pathways.
A Virtual Career Fair

The Role of Formal and Informal Education
Students will develop an understanding of the differences between, and value of, both formal and informal education in the career development process.
The Role of Formal and Informal Education

Exploring Occupational Clusters
Students will recognize the variety of careers available in each occupational cluster.
Students will recognize that many of these careers require or benefit from a background in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
Students will make personal connections between their interests and current skills to the people profiled.
Students will recognize that many of these careers require or benefit from a background in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
Students will make personal connections between their interests and current skills to the people profiled.
Exploring Occupational Clusters

So you’re interested in a career in healthcare?
Students will explore the many career pathways associated with a career in healthcare.
So you’re interested in a career in healthcare?

Virtual Career Fairs for the Science Classroom
Students conduct a virtual exploration of careers and career pathways with connections to science.
Virtual Career Fairs for the Science Classroom

Virtual Career Fairs for the English Language Arts Classroom
Students conduct a virtual exploration of careers and career pathways with connections to English Language Arts.
Virtual Career Fairs for the English Language Arts Classroom

Virtual Career Fairs for the Arts Classroom
Students conduct a virtual exploration of careers and career pathways in the field of the arts (drama, dance, music, visual arts, graphic arts).
Virtual Career Fairs for the Arts Classroom

Career Talk Show
Students will research a career (or career sector) and role-play being a person in that career being interviewed by a talk show host.
Career Talk Show