CTE: Career Technical Education

Students will respond to a scenario by composing a professional email. This lesson can be a precursor to lessons involving research or extensive writing. 

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Canva helps students create mind maps online. They can then share them with others and add them to presentations. This tool is great for brainstorming collaboratively. In this activity students use mind maps to organize or scaffold information for getting a job. 

For this activity, students make a mind map, create a presentation of the mind map, and present it to the class.

In this activity, students answer the VARK Learning Style online questionnaire’s 16 questions to measure their learning style preferences in these areas: Visual (V), Aural/Auditory (A), Reading/Writing (R), and Kinesthetic (K) – see descriptions at VARK Modalities page http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=categories in order to find their preferred learning styles and their weaker study habit. The inventory’s focus is on study habits and skills more than personality traits, and there are “help sheets” that explain to students how to develop their less-preferred learning modalities.

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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 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.