Annie Swain
Beaufort Elementary
2/13/02
Subjects included in this Lesson Plan:
Technology and Career
Interests
Brief Description:
Students will be able to identify areas of
careers that coincide with their individual interests.
Approximate time required: 7 - 10 minutes per student
Standard Course of Study Goals and Objectives:
School Counseling
003.04 Consider how school success and academic achievement
enhance future career and vocational opportunities 004.04 Explore the importance of planning for a career
Technology
1.1 Recognize the influence of technology on life in the United
States.
2.3 Use keyboarding skills to improve speed and accuracy
3.1 Create a product using information located in a database.
3.2 Gather, organize and display data
Teacher's Lesson Goals/Objectives: The student will be able
to identify career possibilities according to their interests and
education as an adult. The student will take the Career Game
interest inventory and receive information about possible careers.
(The Inventory software is a database students use to key in
their educational goal, gather information about themselves in order
to create a product/inventory results to display for
themselves and their parents).
Materials/Resources Needed:
- Classroom computer,
- Career Game Booklet for each student,
- Counselor Tools software,
- Printer and pencil
Pre-Activities:
- Each student will receive his or her own copy of "The
Career Game Booklet" and a pencil.
- Each student will complete each section of the booklet.
Activities:
From their own Career Game Booklet, each student
will type their individual results on the computer using the
Counselor Tools software, including the following steps:
- With the Counselor Tools software opened, each student will
open the "student" selection by clicking on it and
then pressing "enter".
- The student will accurately enter their name using proper
keyboarding techniques for upper and lower case letters.
- The student will accurately enter their education goal.
- The student will accurately enter their individual results
in the Interest Scores boxes according to the results shown in
the "Your Interests Suggests" section of the Career
Game booklet.
- The student will then click on "find jobs".
- The Jobs Report will appear on the screen. Student will now
click on print.
- The student clicks on finish. The previous screen will
appear.
- The student will click on abort. This will return to the
Counselor Tools main screen. The program is now ready for the
next student's information.
Closure:
The student is ready to read their printed results
and discuss the influence of technology on finding jobs in the U.S.
Assessment:
Each student will have an idea of a career path
to take and the education required to pursue particular careers
according to their own individual interests and education goals.
