• Career Commercials

     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    WHY ENGINEERING  

    First Step  What OPTIONS are out there?  ENGINEERING CAREERS

    Research with a partner a SLEW of career opportunities that deal with engineering...
     

    We begin with brainstorming what we think ENGINEERING careers are....

    Start a word document called ENGINEERING with your brainstormed list
     
     
    We make the connections that engineering applies to all areas of life

    Using cut and pasting we organize the careers into similar or related fields

    Click this DOCUMENT to find some sites to use for information BE sure to keep a GOOD record of your NOTES with documentation on where you acquired your knowledge (bibliography!!!)
     
     
     
    With your partner, each of you must identify at least 3 different specific jobs of interest

      • SCAN the sites you selected for the major information listed below in step 2

     

    We identify how to discern reliable information and site bias

    • Continue adding to your note page documenting the sites you retrieve information from and the data you are collecting
    • cite 3 different resources to guarantee information accuracy
     

     

    SECOND STEP
    Put together a PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS to showcase your newly acquired knowledge by
    Creating a POWER POINT PRESENTATION to cover the following information each on an individual slide...INTRODUCTION...YOUR career and YOU
    1. Beginning Salary- may also cover expected increases with years of experience

    2. Educational needs- minimum needs, continuing in the field, areas for advancement

    3. Job description on what to expect for the job duties-identifying differing levels of skills, locations and experiences
     
    This is what you will use as an outline to create your Script

    We begin by identifying what we already know and have experienced with POWER POINT in the past

    • students share and demonstrate basic skills with the class
    • teacher supplements any missing skills of interest after each student has exhausted their knowledge
    Each student creates their own power point presentation focusing on their team selected career--> you are working in partners not to have exactly the same information, but in helping each other as needed for needed skills and finding appropriate information

    REMEMBER when presenting your power point, your slides are triggers for your memory, you do NOT want to just read everything on your slide
    • prior to your oral presentation to the class, make sure your title slide has your career and name clearly marked
    • print off your presentation in HANDOUT format to hand in prior to your oral presentation
     
     

     



    Third Step
    THIRD you will write up a script covering the requirements of your career choice and documenting what each partner will be "saying"
    Each person needs their own script
    Script should identify which setting you will choose for your background : Front of classroom, hallway ramp, or entry vestibule
    Make sure you have practiced enough to be loud enough but well spoken and utilizing proper EXPRESSIONS



    FOURTH
    Your CULMINATING project, you will create your COMMERCIAL by incorporating a
    1.Visual aid
    2.Completed Script including FACTUAL info on-
    a. Educational requirements
    b. Salary
    c. Job duties/expectations
     
    3. Need to have a HOOK- what will make people want to do YOUR occupation
     

    4. Must be between 1 ½ -3 ½ min long

    5.  One team will tape your group and then you will tape them

    6.  Each group gets 2 takes (ACTION to start, CUT to end)

    7.  Each group will have an opportunity to be critiqued and viewed in class

    8.  Students with prior parental approval will have their creations posted for public viewing (as technological systems allow)


     
     
    SUBSTITUTE DAY...
    You are going to watch a video focusing on naming 3 major catagories of careers you find and what characteristics are TYPICAL of a STEM person
    To access the assignment CLICK HERE
    • once the site opens, TYPE your first and last name correctly capitalized in the SPACE to the left where it is asked for
    • DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING ANYWHERE ELSE, otherwise you will need to RESTART 
    • The video will be at the VERY top of the screen, just click the play button and follow any steps needed to access video player (use recommended settings)
    • help out neighbors and classmates alike
    FINALIZE anything further in regard to your SCRIPTS and be ready to PRINT them tomorrow!

     
     
     

    If your script is as perfect as perfect can be, Enjoy this final SHOW....

    FINALLY...."VOTE" for your favorite career by submitting a printed RESUME for that occupation- use what you have learned by the presentations to create what you THINK would be needed on a resume to earn that job. 
    Be creative, but realistically based!

    careers


    STANDARDS
    STANDARDS FOR TECHNOLOGY LITERACY:
    • students will develop an understanding of the relationships among technologies and the connections between technology and other fields of study
    • students will develop an understanding of the cultural, social, economic and political effects of technology
    • students will develop an understanding of the role of society in the development and use of technology
    • students will develop an understanding of and be able to select and use information and communication technologies



Last Modified on September 9, 2015