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Exploring Career Sectors and Skills
Lessons
Students will explore STEM career sectors and the skills required for a variety of STEM careers.
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STEAM Jobs Around the World
Lessons
Students will develop critical thinking skills as they investigate STEAM careers locally and internationally.
![Duckling testing the water](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2020-08/duck_testing_water.jpg?itok=Zywgw6uR)
Testing the Waters
Lessons
Students learn about how to gain experience and be exposed to, or “test the waters,” of careers that align with their personal occupational goals.
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What do you want to DO when you grow up?
Lessons
Students will use online tools and job search engines to explore career possibilities and the job market.
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You Be the Crime Scene Investigator
Lessons
Students will learn about crime scene investigation and its connections to cell biology and careers.
![Checking the inside of a pipe](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2020-09/checking-the-inside-of-the-pipe.jpg?itok=k10jeKDc)
Crack the Code: Water Treatment
Lessons
Students learn about the water treatment process as they complete a digital “escape room” on a Google site.
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Choose Your Own Adventure Autobiography
Lessons
Students reflect upon the influences on their career path journeys to date and summarize these in an autobiographical poem or Powerpoint presentation.
![Do you see a face in that electric socket? (michaeljmc, iStockPhoto)](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2020-07/green-wall-with-a-power-socket.jpg?itok=y7Atbmyc)
Facial Recognition and the Brain
STEM Explained
Learn how your brain recognizes faces and why you sometimes see them in places they don’t exist!
![Nicole Brisson à un site minier](/sites/default/files/styles/career_image/public/2020-06/Nicole%20Brisson3.jpg?itok=zGzXFoCd)
Nicole Brisson
Career Profiles
Water and Tailings Engineer
![The Jodrell Bank Lovell Telescope located in Cheshire, England](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2020-06/Jodrell_Bank_Lovell_Telescope.jpg?itok=TFL_abQu)
Telescopes and Astronomy
Backgrounders
Visible light is only part of what astronomers study. They use different types of telescopes to study the entire electromagnetic spectrum.
![Labo de Heather McFarlane's](/sites/default/files/styles/career_image/public/2020-06/Heather%20M%27s%20Lab.jpg?itok=i1PiN2C_)
Heather E. McFarlane
Career Profiles
Assistant Professor & Canada Research Chair in Plant Cell Biology
![Serina Hall](/sites/default/files/styles/career_image/public/2020-06/Serina%20Hall2.jpg?itok=2L40RCWU)
Serina Hall
Career Profiles
Mechanical Designer
![Mahadeo Sukhai](/sites/default/files/styles/career_image/public/2020-06/Mahadeo%20Sukhai.jpg?itok=KalcMoxm)
Mahadeo Sukhai
Vice President of Research & International Affairs and Chief Accessibility Officer
![Skyglow from a city and highway](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2020-06/night_sky_and_highway.jpg?itok=5QVvQWHE)
Light Pollution
STEM Explained
Light can be a type of pollution. Learn about the damage it causes to people and living things as well as how you can prevent it.
![Anne Simonen au travail](/sites/default/files/styles/career_image/public/2020-05/Anne%20Simonen.jpg?itok=6Km5oaX2)
Anne Simonen
Career Profiles
Civil Engineering Technologist