Lessons

Students share examples of responsible risk-taking and reflect on how they can take risks.

Students learn about different ways that people take risks in their careers.

Students will produce a Help Wanted Ad that lists the skills, personality attributes and job conditions for a specific career/job title. 

Students explore careers that involve the concepts of form and function.

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

Students construct a model of a volcano and explore the career of a volcanologist.

Students explore the concept of transferable skills gained through VWE - Volunteer, Work and Extracurricular experiences.

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

Students learn how the STEM skills that they develop in class apply to future career options. 

Students will explore how STEM skills are needed in non-STEM careers.

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

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.

Students define workplace discrimination and analyze scenarios.

Students will develop critical thinking skills as they investigate STEAM careers locally and internationally.

Students complete a matching activity to explore how interests and education relate to careers.