Unit 5: Career and Community Experiences

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.

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 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.