CTE: Career Technical Education

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WebMD has an extensive library of information on diseases and diagnoses. It is written at a 6th to 10th grade level. An individual or group project to research a particular disease can lead to learning new medical vocabulary that will be helpful when talking to the doctor.

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This is an online book (61 pages) about various aspects of browsers, the Internet, cloud computing, cookies, privacy, security, malware, and phishing. The reading level is about 6th grade. It can be covered in small chunks (20) and integrated into your everyday skills and competencies.

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Use YouGlish, a site that generates videos from YouTube that contain a word or phrase that you enter, to find authentic examples of vocabulary and to hear the pronunciation of the words.

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Use this online dictionary in class whenever students need to know a definition of a word or learn words with similar meanings to a given vocabulary word. You can also assign students to use the Web site to look up definitions, synonyms, and see sample sentences of given vocabulary words on word lists and hear pronunciations of words.

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This lesson will help your students prepare for a job interview. The video covers 

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In this activity, students will be viewing a YouTube video on "How to Prepare for an Interview," As they watch they should fill out the study guide and prepare to answer discussion questions. Then students can participate in mock interviews.