The career exploration program in Georgia was developed to provide adolescent youth with the knowledge and experiences that enable them to be aware of various career opportunities and develop tentative plans to accomplish career goals. The instructional unit consists of minicourses in four areas related to industrial arts. The four occupational…

This booklet is aimed primarily at parents of Grade 8 students in the province of Ontario and is intended to help parents plan their child's secondary education. In particular, the booklet attempts to clearly describe the choices open to students as they move from Grade 8 to secondary school and to relate, in a general way, secondary school…

The grade 8 curriculum guide contains four lessons covering the career preparation knowledge, skills, and self-knowledge domains and is designed to introduce students to careers in physical education. Each lesson includes a goal, performance objective, activities and outcome measure. The overall goal is for the students to acquire knowledge of…

Project COULD (Career Orientation Utilizing Language Development) was developed as a means of building skills, knowledges, and attitudes on elementary children's previously acquired backgrounds. Children learn to speak the grammar and vocabulary characteristic of the language heard most frequently at home and in the immediate environment. A series…

The second of a three-part series developed to show how the junior high school curriculum can be enhanced by adding real-life career oriented processes, the document provides further career exploration experiences for the eighth grade student. Building on the home model utilized in the seventh grade element of the series, the booklet treats the…

The 10 activities in the unit on art careers attempt to provide eighth and ninth grade students with opportunities for acquiring occupational information, to help students discover themselves in relation to art careers, and to explore various clusters of careers. The suggested occupational areas are: architecture, product design, cartooning,…

Developed by the Cincinnati Public Schools as part of a project designed to provide career orientation for students in grades 7 and 8, this manual is designed to provide activities and information concerning the infusion of seven career developmental areas in the curriculum. These developmental areas include self, individual and environment, the…