Strand A. Developing the Skills, Strategies, and Habits Needed to Succeed

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 learn how the STEM skills that they develop in class apply to future career options. 

Students will explore what it means to be adaptable and flexible, and learn how to solve problems in a proactive way with respect to career planning.

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 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 explore different possible working environments related to the field of cybersecurity.