Unit 4: Job Seeking and Job Maintenance

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 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 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. 

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 define workplace discrimination and analyze scenarios.

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