Unit C: Light and Optical Systems

Students explore the attributes and skills that can make someone a successful innovator.

Students will explore the societal impacts of inventions involving light and sound.

Learn how artificial intelligence is affecting the trucking industry as a way to explore how technology and society are related.

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.

Learn how people keep heavy equipment working in the most challenging conditions

Students will explore STEM career sectors and the skills required for a variety of STEM careers.

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

Students learn about how to gain experience and be exposed to, or “test the waters,” of careers that align with their personal occupational goals.

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

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

Students learn about the water treatment process as they complete a digital “escape room” on a Google site.

Students reflect upon the influences on their career path journeys to date and summarize these in an autobiographical poem or Powerpoint presentation.