Date
School year 2012-13
Subject/Period
Project Based
Learning: Career
Project
Teacher: Deb Jones
Prerequisites
Basic Alice Tutorials
Essential Question (?)
What is (a specific career) all about?
Goal/ Essential Standard : Making Students College Objective: Developing Presentation Skills, Research Skills,
& Career Ready
Career Knowledge
Learning Target: Students will be able to expand their understanding about a familiar/unfamiliar career
opportunity.
Instructional Strategies
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Exit Slip
Career researched: ________________
Why would you like or dislike this career?
Justify your reasoning/thinking.
OR
Give 3 reasons we need this career in our
world…2 things you like about this
career…1 thing you would dislike about
this career.
Homework
As needed to complete project.
Container will be filled with individual slips of paper with one career listed on it.
Students will choose one career that they will research.
They will then create an Alice world for presenting the information to the seminar class.
Minimum Project Requirements:
1. Basic facts and summary of career.
2. Background education needed.
3. Salary/Pay scale in various areas.
4. Comparison to other closely related careers.
5. Advantages and disadvantages of career.
6. Responsibilities of career.
7. Ways and places to find additional information on the career.
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Alice Requirements:
Billboard creations.
Graph creation.
Scene changes.
Object/Character dialogue (Well-developed).
Import/record sound(s).
Button event(s)
Alice Career Demo Worlds found at http://www.cs.duke.edu/csed/alice/aliceInSchools/lessonPlans/:
1. BusinessCareers .a2w (created by Daniels)
2. 4.01CareerWorld.a2w (created by Joann Blanton)