A Teacher's Guide to Career Education, 6-8.

Overview & Synopsis

Lesson plans for activities in career education are presented in this teacher's guide designed for grades 6-8. The first section presents South Carolina's position on career education. Section two outlines suggested learner objectives to be attained under seven elements of career education: self-knowledge, decision-making skills, career awareness, economic awareness, educational awareness, attitudes and appreciation, and social awareness. The next section, the bulk of the document, contains the career education lesson plans: twenty-one for grade 6, twenty-two middle school-english, thirteen grade 7-math, twenty grade 7-choral music, nineteen grades 7 and 8-life and Earth science, twenty grade 7-remedial reading, twenty grades 7 and 8-physical education and health, twenty grade 8-art, ten grade 8-mathematics, and seventeen grades 7 and 8-social studies. Each lesson plan includes grade level, subject area, educational concept, element and element objective, activities, resources, and followup activities. (JH)