The document contains 47 activities for Grade 7. The contents include the following areas: vocabulary; a large variety of inventory and other forms focusing especially on self awareness, self evaluation, and value clarification; a 44-page unit guide for a course called Know Yourself, which includes objectives, activities, evaluation, and…

The Career Exploration for Elementary Children (CEC) project is a 3-year curriculum development effort begun in 1972 at the Perrysburgh, Ohio, Elm Street Elementary School. The three major desired outcomes of the project are: (1) development of a curriculum model for career exploration at the elementary school level, (2) the development of an…

The Career Development and Technology Program will help elementary school children examine various occupations, the world of work, technology, and their own interest and abilities in relation to possible career directions. Specifically it will: (1) provide learning activities that engage the learner in experiences suited to his interests, (2)…

Materials contained in this packet for teacher advisors of junior high school students were developed for the Teacher Advisor System of the Lincoln Career Education Project, Nebraska. They are designed for use with students in a series of teacher advisor (TA) group meetings to (1) get oriented to the new school year, (2) get to know self and other…

This teacher's guide on foods is one of a series of six designed for the employment orientation program for special needs students at the Gloucester County Vocational-Technical School in Sewell, New Jersey. The series includes laundry, hospitality, sewing, basic business, foods, and beauty culture. Each guide contains lesson plans consisting of…

A University of Georgia professor involved in summer inservice programs describes procedures and results of a project in which Georgia secondary teachers developed and tested home economics career exploration curriculum materials for middle/junior high students. (JT)

This document presents a health curriculum guide for junior high school students in Alberta, Canada. The introduction discusses the program rationale, curriculum themes, goals, a decision-making model, time allocations of program components, content overlap, characteristics of adolescent development, and the exceptional student. Ways to develop…

The work-study guide is the third volume in the advanced level of a career education curriculum for elementary-secondary migrant children. Complementing the secondary level job information text and a workbook about decision making and self-awareness, the work-study guide is designed to accompany work exploration and experience programs. It…

This guide for using the Comprehensive Career Education Model (CCEM), which consists of 131 units developed under the rubric of the "school-based" model at the Ohio State University Center for Vocational Education, is intended to provide a brief background to the curriculum and its elements so that the user can decide how existing…

Developed to provide seventh and eighth grade students information about careers in the marine science occupational cluster, this booklet may be used to integrate career information with various subject areas. (It is one of several student booklets developed for use in the Ohio Career Orientation Program at grades 7 and 8 to assist students in…

Written primarily for special needs students in the exploratory phase of a vocational program in food services, this activity book employs basic content material of the food service trade to serve as a vehicle for developing reading and language skills. Each lesson follows a similar format. The lesson is introduced by an illustration and a list of…

A project produced and field tested a selected set of video tapes and instructional material illustrating actual student performances and job requirements while on a high school work experience program. Objectives were (1) to enhance on-the-job student performances via immediate audio and visual feedback, (2) to establish a library of realistic…

The junior high school curriculum was designed to serve the dual purposes of career development and occupational exploration in marketing and distribution. The guide contains: a field-test summary, detailed introduction to the teacher (including purposes, outcomes and goals, instructional strategies, structure of the curriculum, the conceptual…

The exploratory course in career education for grades 8 and 9 is designed to directly involve the student in an investigation and evaluation of information about career opportunities, societal needs, and his personal relationship to the world of work. The purpose of this experience-centered course is to stimulate creative individualism which will…

This document presents the 1972 report on the Warren, Ohio, city school district's career education program, which was conducted in one high school for Grades 9 and 10, in one junior high school for Grades 6, 7, and 8, and in six elementary schools for kindergarten through Grade 6. Participation in the program totaled 33.2 percent of the students…