Unit 4: Job Seeking and Job Maintenance

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

Students will create career profiles based on interviews they conduct with community members.

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

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

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

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

Students will use online tools and job search engines to explore career possibilities and the job market.

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

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

Students will learn about crime scene investigation and its connections to cell biology and careers.

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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 develop an understanding of the differences between, and value of, both formal and informal education in the career development process.

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.