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2003 Career Activity File - employability skills

The Career Activity File provides career development activities for Grades K-12. This booklet, updated annually, includes integrated lessons, and activities related to the theme of the publication.

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  •  Introduction and Table of Contents
  • Employability Skills
    Workplace Basics: Skills Employers Want
    Developing Employability Skills
    Eight Keys to Employability
    Planning a Team Meeting
    Employability Skills On-Line
    All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
    Products and Resources
    Lesson: Employability Skills
  • Problem Solving
    Problem-Solving Competitions and Future Problem-Solving Fact Sheet
    Web Sites for Community Projects
    Opportunities in Work Clothes: On-Line Problem-Solving
    Problem-Solving Steps

    Problem-Solving Steps Worksheet
    Lessons
    Elementary Lesson: Marshmallow Geometry
    Middle Grades Lesson: Jobs of the Future
    High School Lesson: Careers Requiring Problem Solving

  • Critical Thinking Skills

    Suggested Web Sites
    Helping Children Analyze Thinking
    A Checklist for Reasoning
    Analyze the Parts of Thinking of a Character in a Story
    Lessons
    Elementary Lesson: Mission Impossible
    Middle Grades Lesson: What Position Should They Play?
    High School Lesson: How

  • Resource Center
  • Tips for New Counselors
    Overview of 16 Career Clusters
    Sample Plan of Study for Health Cluster
    Application Information
  • Career Games
  • Bulletin Board Ideas/Assignments

  • ENTIRE CAREER ACTIVITY FILE – Employability Skills (.pdf format)

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