September 29 - October 3

Day 1 - 9-30-14

After the students finished their Arts & Humanities PGP I had them do the following on a google class assignment

Create a document for your answers.

1. Describe what S.T.E.M. means.

2. Research jobs in the S.T.E.M. field. Find a profession for each of the letters. S - Science T - Technology E - Engineering M - Mathematics.

3. Describe each of these jobs.

Your assignment should look something like this:

S.T.E.M.

What S.T.E.M. means...

S-Science - job name - description

T-

E-

M-

Day 2 - 10/1/14

Warm Up: Read STEM Needed:  http://goo.gl/jJ5Qfj  Think Pair Share thoughts

Introduction to the STEM Endorsement

What is STEM?

Science Careers, Engineering careers, robotics pathway, Technology careers, Mathematics careers

Day 3 - 10/2/14

Students will read and answer questions about Ten Traits of a Valuable Employee

Day 4 - 10/3/14

Use sites given by teachers research current job postings in science and create an  flyer/advertisement for the job posting

September 22 - 26

9/22/14

• Research Careers in the Fine Arts using MyDestiny and Achieve Texas website.
• Be assigned one pathway from the following in the fine arts endorsement:
  art, band, choir/piano, dance, theater
• within that pathway do research to find different careers
• pick one of the careers within the pathway and research the education requirements, certifications, experience and salary for this career.

9/23/14

• After the research is done, students will find the other student in class that is researching the same pathway. Together students will create a poster with the information from their research.
• Poster requirements
• Title of Pathway
• Name of career(s) being displayed in poster
• An illustration of the career(s)
• Salary of these careers
• Education, certification requirements

9/24/14

• Poster gallery walk.
• Students will walk around looking at the other student’s posters
• Students will answer the questions provided by the teacher using the posters for answers

9/25/14

Guest Speaker for journalism pathways - someone from a newspaper/tv station/politician

9/26/14

• Students will pick their favorite career in Social Studies or Journalism to create a project. The project can be a newspaper article (with picture/photograph), filmed newscast, recorded news report (radio version of the news), or a speech. All of these will be presented to the class.

Week 4 - Sept 15 - 19

9/15/14

Create wanted poster, job posting/advertisement, prezi, or promotional video for a career of your choice that falls under the Public Service Endorsement, within either the Health Science Pathway or the NJROTC Pathway.

9/16/14

Present poster,  job posting/advertisement, prezi, or promotional video

9/17/14

PGP in Public Services Endorsement

9/18/14

Video about Arts and Humanities endorsement
http://vimeo.com/89197360 7 min

Use Achieve Texas and C2C to look up career options in Arts and Humanities Endorsement

Wrap up classes by brainstorming and sharing all potential career options

9/19/14

Guest speaker

Week 3 - Sept 8 - 12

9/9/14

Research career opportunities that fall under the Public Service Endorsement.

9/9/14

GUEST SPEAKER *Rick Snell - Acadian EMT Service

9/10/14

Finish our research from Monday's assignment.

Brainstorm and discuss careers in the NJROTC Pathways: Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force, Law enforcement

9/11/14

NJROTC officer guest speaker  - Chief David Canales

9/12/14

Research:

Find 3 careers in the NJROTC pathway, each career should require a different level of education, include information about the average income and the availability of jobs for that career,

Wanted poster or job posting/advertisement, prezi, video

Week 2 - Sept 2-5

Day 6 - 9/2/14

Log in to www.mydestinybisd.org

• Note any alerts, announcements, events, and Twitter updates.
• Click on the Settings link in the top right
• Complete the fields under the Parents section for one or both parents. Click Submit
• From MyDestiny Home Page click Career Discovery on left tab bar. Search parent’s occupation titles.
• If you do not know your parent’s occupation, then continue researching more ranked occupation on the Career Discovery matches page.

Day 7 - 9/3/14

Digital citizenship Google Doc assignment

Create Glogster digital poster

• will need to create account and learn to use
• research what makes a responsible digital citizen
• create poster
• send/save

Day 8 - 9/4/14

• Glogster digital poster-day 2
• Present Glogster

Day 9 - 9/5/14

• Warm up: read World of Work livebinder poster and answer questions
• • http://www.innovate-educate.org/files/uploads/New_World_of_Work_Article.pdf
  • share Ah-Ha info
  Discuss Public Service Endorsement -
  • Brainstorm some jobs you think would be considered Public Service
  Log into Achieve Texas -
  • Live Binders
  • World of Work - Labor Market Information Center
  • Highest-Paying Occupations by Median Hourly Wage
  Research information on 3 different types of jobs.
  Find out the following for each job:
  • level of education
  • any certification required
  • salary
  • job availability in Texas