Lesson Plan Title: Career Power Points

1th Grades Career Development

Essential Questions:

 What career is the student interested in at this time and why?

 What are the 10 (+) most essential components about the career?
 How can knowing what career sounds interesting help the student pursue a focused education
and career path?

Stage 1—Desired Results

Overview/ Purpose:

The purpose of this lesson is twofold: (1) to expose students to as many careers within the associated
career clusters as possible and (2) to help them learn specific and the most essential information on each
occupation, including core tasks, what classes they need to take in high school to prepare themselves,
and what direction their education and career path could take from here on out. Students will be
exposed to this information by personally researching one occupation.

Stage 2—Learning Plan & Assessment Evidence

Prerequisites:

 Basic knowledge on how to create a Power Point, create new slides, order slides, select the slide
layout, select a template for the background, insert objects, and possibly work with simple
transitions.
 Basic knowledge on what makes a good Power Point presentation including such hints as
o Assuring that text is legible and contrast and colors easy on the eyes (e.g. no brilliant
colors against a neon background)
o Large font
o Limited words and lines per page
o Not too many or lengthy transitions
o Fragment sentences are okay
o No direct reading when presenting- rather use each slide as visual support of what is
talked about
o Loud and clear voice and avoidance of “uhms”

MyLife Career Project -

Directions:
Create a Power Point presentation with a background and design of your choice. Your presentation will

have a minimum of 10 slides, one addressing each of the following criteria.

Slides:
1. Name of Career, Your Name, current Grade Level, School, Month & Year
2. Core Tasks (describe the career/ occupation)
3. Workplace (locations, inside or outside; where?)
4. Working Conditions (working hours, special dangers or other conditions)
5. Earnings / Income/ Wages/ Salary: range; or national averages
6. Education/ Training Needed
7. Attributes and Abilities (Special Skills needed)
8. Job Outlook (In Earnings tab: employment trend, national and Coyhaique given)
9. Advantages/ Disadvantages (as perceived by you (5+ things you dislike the most about the job)
10. Bonus slide: Related Careers: Name at least 10 and some companies
11. Sources and other Resources (names and urls or other sources where you found your
information)

Oral Presentation:

Share the findings on your preferred career with the rest of your class in an oral report.
If you like, you can use notes that you add below your slides or notes recorded on separate note cards.
When presenting, do not read your slides but state in your own words the important aspects under each
heading.

Additional Sources:

 The biggest job search site is the Occupational Outlook Handbook which is now online at
http://www.bls.gov/oco. Write the name of the job you want to find into the search box.

Rubric to assess the Career Power Points

Slides Points: 5 4 3 1-2 1
1 Introduction All 5 stated: name of career, 4 stated 3 stated 1-2 stated well 1 or less and
student name, School, slide is named
student’s grade level, and
 month and year.

2 Core Tasks Career is briefly but clearly Career is described Career is Two tasks are Only one task is
described so that it is easy to and tasks are described but named named
know what tasks and skills it mentioned specific tasks
involves are unclear
3 Work Place 4 aspects named: career is 3 aspects named 2 aspects 1 aspects One or less
tied to a particular location? and clearly named and named and described and
Indoor/ outdoor? Country/ described described clearly slide is named
city? Clear description of described
location requirements
4 Working 4 aspects are described, Info on 3 aspect, Info on 2 Info on 1 One or less
conditions such as working hrs; special aspects, working working
dangers; work environment, conditions well condition
travel, tips, with people or described described.
not, indoors/ outdoors…
5 Earnings/ Coyhaique and national Only 3 of 4 stated Only 2 of 4 Only one of 4 Not correctly
Wages/ Income/ beginning and averages stated stated stated but said
Salary wages stated (4) something
6 Education/ Levels of education needed Partially stated but Partially stated; Marginally Slide named, but
Training needed clearly stated some examples no PS school stated non-pertinent
given named information
7 Attributes & 4 special skills, knowledge, 3 aspects named 2 aspects 1 aspects No aspect
Abilities abilities, or needed licenses and clearly named and named and named and
and types of diplomas described described described described
stated.
8 Job Outlook National or state job outlook 2 of the named 1 -2 of the 1 of the named None of the
including (1) employ #s now aspects accurately named aspects aspects named aspects
and (2) future, reflecting (3) stated accurately accurately accurately
what change. stated reflecting stated stated
what change
9 Advantages 4 + likes about the job 4 stated 3 stated 2 stated 1 stated
(prospects) well stated
10 Disadvantages 4 aspects disliked about the 4 stated 3 stated 2 stated 1 stated
job) are stated
Bonus Slide: At least 5 related careers and 4-3 related careers 3-2 related 2-1 related 1 related
Related Careers some related clusters and/ or clusters careers and/or careers and/or careers or
clusters clusters clusters
11 Sources/ 3 + sources named with 2 + sources named 3 sources but no 2 sources but no 1 source or less.
Resources print source or url provided with print source or url or print url or print
url provided source or vice source or vice
versa versa.
Total Points A: 55+ B: 44 – 54 C: 33 - 43 D: 11 - 32 F 10-
Sample Career Power Point