Unit 3: Learning and Planning

Students explore non-traditional careers related to sustainability and sustainable development.

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

Students explore the different branches of engineering and discover the similarities and differences between them.

Students will learn about work habits that can help them succeed in any career.

Students will research careers and post-secondary pathways related to their current course. 

Students will learn and demonstrate skills required in a career of interest.

Students engage in self-reflection as they consider occupational fit and how various career options align with their personal strengths and preferences.

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

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

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

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

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.