Describes the Chemistry-Industry Awareness Program, a community-related program implemented at Great Valley High School in Malvern, Pa., which provides opportunities and work experiences for second-year chemistry students that may aid in career decision making in chemistry-related occupations. (CS)

Details the benefits of the development and maintenance of useful work activities, such as "co-op" or "internship" programs, for chemistry students who wish to acquire some understanding of the requirements of the industrial job market as they complete their college education. (CS)

The article describes Project Explore, a six-week, half-day program that provides special needs students from secondary schools with a wide variety of career exploration and vocational assessment experiences. (SBH)

Counselors, faculty members, and placement personnel pool their skills to create a program that promotes student career awareness. (Author)

This booklet contains 18 one-page summaries of programs, practices, and publications that were awarded American Association for Career Education (AACE) Citations for Career Education Initiatives from 1992-1995. They represent ongoing, tangible, replicable, and innovative career education programs, practices, and publications as well as significant…

The second document of a series describes approximately 150 classroom activities in career education for teachers of exceptional students at the elementary, middle, and junior high school levels. An initial section provides such introductory information as a definition of career education, procedures for using the handbook, the relationship…

The career exploration booklet in the Room to Grow series is intended for use in the fifth and sixth grades. Its purpose is to motivate each student to investigate the self and to become aware of and develop individual potentials and abilities. The booklet may also supplement career development activities in other grades. Each student should have…

The sixth in a series of nine career education guides provides a brief general description of skills, training, and employment opportunities in the world of work for the junior and senior high school level. It also includes a page of questions and activities related to the descriptive text. (JR)

This list of biological science societies has under each society title, a career information publication title, its cost and ordering information. (MDR)

Lists titles and program descriptions of numerous government agencies at local, state, and federal levels which offer aid ranging from priced publications to developmental grants for career education activities. (BM)

Provided is a list of 12 examples of career awareness, career exploration, and planning materials for use with learning disabled students (preschool to high school level). (SBH)

Responses from 28 of 44 academically talented high school minority students who participated in a precollege workshop found the positive attitudes they developed toward food and agricultural sciences careers were sustained one year later. Compared with 16 controls, participants had significantly more positive attitudes. (SK)

Illustrates a technique designed to help adolescents and young adults become aware of the relationships between certain classic determinants (e.g., prestige, salary, career prospects) and their vocational preference system, the strong and weak points in their information systems, and the internal structure of their occupational representation.…

The unique components of career education for students with visual impairments are identified as exposure to visual input, opportunities to work, realistic feedback, expectations, and compensatory skills. Specific components of career education for young children, middle school students, and high school students are suggested. (CR)

A career planning folder helps secondary students recognize and make choices concerning their interests, skills, and goals. Students record their progress annually on a series of charts. In the eighth and ninth grades, students list their school and community activities, their interests and hobbies, jobs or careers they have researched and found…