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

 

Index: 9.1A Grade 4 CPI 1

 

Standard: 9.1 - Career and Technical Education

 

Strand: A - Career Awareness and Planning

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 1 - The student will describe various life roles and work-related activities in the home, community, and school.

 

Grade: 4

 

Sample Activities:

 

·       The local landfills are full. Propose a solution which encompasses local government, local citizens and local business.

 

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

 

·       Earth is becoming uninhabitable.

 

·       Current transportation systems consume natural resources and add to pollution and congestion

 

·       Career Choices of Famous African Americans

 

·       Careers-It’s Not Just for Grownups!

 

·       Complete the activity “My Career As A Third Grade Student” by writing about and discuss the following:
o How did you prepare for the day’s work (school work)?
o What supplies are needed?
o How do you close-up your school day?
o When do you need cooperation from other students or the teacher to accomplish your tasks?

 

·       Construct a collage illustrating work-related activities in the home. Students write a descriptive paragraph describing their collage.

 

·       Create a diorama depicting a community occupation. Present the diorama to the class.

 

·       Identify your favorite subjects and special talents. Relate the subjects and talents to different types of jobs.

 

·       Describe the various roles an individual may have as part of a career. A career includes development and growth from childhood, through to teenage years and into adult life. A career is made up of all the things students do and the roles students fulfill, such as student, daughter, son, sister, brother, friend, babysitter, swimmer, captain of the team, etc. In ten to fifteen years, a student may also be a wife, husband, parent, welder, teacher, church member, and dog owner. All of these roles make up a life career. The result is a person with special and unique characteristics. Have students use a computer program to make a map/diagram that shows their current roles. Students write a story about their life roles and work.

 

·       Students complete the following statements:
1. I am happiest when I….
2. What I like to do most is….
3. I often wish….
4. The best thing that ever happened to me ….
5. At my school, I….
6. What I need most is….
7. What I want most is….
8. If I could be someone else, I ….
9. I get frustrated when….
10. One thing that makes me very angry is….
11. Honesty is ….
12. Something that makes me afraid is….
13. My favorite color is, my favorite sport is, my favorite food is….

Alternative method is to place statements on cards and have a set of cards for students to draw from within a group. Rotate drawing the card. The person that draws the card gives the first answer and go around group. Next person draws card, etc.