Content Area: Career Education and Consumer, Family, and Life Skills

 

Index: 9.1B Grade 8 CPI 4

 

Standard: 9.1 - Career and Technical Education

 

Strand: B - Employability Skills

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 4 - The student will describe and demonstrate appropriate work habits and interpersonal skills needed to obtain and retain employment.

 

Grade: 8

 

Sample Activities:

 

·       Climatic conditions have changed in the twenty-first century. Research scientists are looking at the oceans to create habitable communities. Create an underwater community.

 

·       An individual wants to select a career pathway….in an area of interest for future employment and postsecondary and lifelong learning.

 

·       Although New Jersey is well known as the Garden State, it certainly could be recognized as the Invention State. We now live in an increasing complex "global society" with demands for increased invention, design, and manufacturing to make people's lives and work more productive while meeting personal and family needs.

 

·       Our Town

 

·       Workplace Tour

 

·       Students will break up into cooperative learning groups and define the meaning of a positive work habit. They will write this definition on a poster and proceed to make a list of all the positive work habits they can think of. They will turn the poster over, write the definition of an interpersonal skill and then list all the interpersonal skills they each possess. Upon completion, each group will share their results with the other groups.

 

·       Students will imaginatively construct a small typical community, complete with school, town hall, hair salon, restaurant, art gallery, food store, etc. Based upon the previous activity, students will decide what professions they would like and be the most qualified. Each individual student will write a one-page proposal to the mayor (teacher) stating which business or institution they would like to be connected to and why. After this activity is completed, students will be given materials such as foam core, construction paper, toothpicks, etc. and begin designing and constructing the building that they will be in charge to construct. Students will hold a town meeting and decide how they are going to physically lay out their town. Students will invite other classes and parents to come in and view their community. Note: be sure all groups construct buildings to the same scale.