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Interviewing Dos and Don'ts
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Students will demonstrate an understanding of the question: "What are appropriate and inappropriate characteristics to exhibit during a job interview?"
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Buying Auto Insurance
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The purpose of this experience is for students to expand on their understanding of the question: "Why is auto insurance an important investment in my future?"
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Parliamentary Procedure
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This lesson will allow the student to participate in a meeting that is run using parliamentary procedure.
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Request Letter - Mail Merge
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Students prepare a request letter using mail merge in Microsoft Word. The letter is actually sent to merchants.
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Creating a Web Page
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The focus of this unit is to create a web page.
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Obtaining the Job
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This unit provides the day-to-day requirements to prepare for Gateways at a local university and in obtaining the job upon meeting the requirements of graduation.
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Package Design
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Determine functions in Packaging and designing a 3 dimensional package utilizing the computer and various software programs.
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Design a Business Card (3.5 x 2 inches)
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The student experience is within the Business Education program and falls within the course of Business Analysis/Business Computer Applications as well as graphic arts. To successfully complete this experience, the students need to know the components of a good business card and should be to be able to run the business card portion of a software program.
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How to Buy a Computer
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Essential Questions: What does it mean to "sell" the customer? What are the electronic tools (software) used in marketing a proposal?
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How to Create Publications for a School Event
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Provide the student with desktop publishing experience within a project based learning environment. Emphasis was placed in the realistic creation of such documents as well as the
accuracy within them.
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Anatomical Cardiac Assessment
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Allows students to incorporate both declarative and procedural knowledge gained from the cardiac unit.
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Anatomical Female Reproductive System
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Allows students to incorporate declarative and procedural knowledge they gained in the reproductive unit.
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Responsibilities of a Working Citizen
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Designed to align/integrate study of computer applications with acquisition of vocational knowledge/academic knowledge. Students use basic computer applications in as word processing, database, spreadsheet, desktop publishing, and presentation capabilities to demonstrate knowledge they acquire about themselves as potential employees, new perspectives on the workplace, and understanding of how academic knowledge is used in the workplace.
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Yearbook
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The unit deals with the creation of a yearbook on computer. It covers the business side of book sales, marketing, and producing the yearbook. It uses desktop publishing on two different types of software with much emphasis on graphics. Students must understand business contract, deadline to publishers, and the actual creation of a book.
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Yearbookkeeping
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Creating a yearbook using spreadsheets,databases and word processing documents that help to make this process go smoothly.
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McCadan's Quarterly Report
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Community Research: This learning experience is part of a larger learning unit called Data Analysis Interpreting Tables and Graphs. In this learning unit, fourth graders were presented with an authentic problem from a local business and were challenged to solve the problem using experimental inquiry. Students were expected to analysis data, generate graphs, draw conclusions and submit their findings in a business letter format. In partnership with the local business, the students each received a personal response from the company’s plant manager.
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Roofing; Sales: An Art of Persuasion
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The unit consists of content, activities, simulations, and learning experiences focused on building sales and customer relations skills. This unit was originated in a School-to-Careers model classroom and uses a combination of school-based learning, work-based learning and connecting activities. For those wishing to apply this unit within a more traditional setting, a work-place shadowing experience can be substituted for the internship experience to help students make the necessary connections. This unit uses knowledge based and project-based learning.
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What's Growing at the Tips of Your Fingers - In ad
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This experience creates a learning environment that allows students to connect the worlds of laboratory microbiology and health care infection control. Its purpose is to enhance the awareness that science is an integral part of the students' career technical education program.
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Haircutting
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The students will have a better understanding of haircutting terminology, rules, tools, and techniques.
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Business Letter
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This learning experience is integrated into Mohawk Central School’s Business Computer Applications Class, using a computer lab setting. Students will develop a career survey designed to obtain data about work skills, occupations, and course work. A business letter designed to entice a response from the reader will accompany the survey.
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Mohicans on the Move
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The goal of this unit is to survey high school alumni to assess their career choices and the work skills they use on the job. Once the responses are received and analyzed, students will draw conclusions as to which work skills are the most common among a variety of careers. The most popular work skills will be matched with the high school class that teaches that skill. In addition, students will compile a list of work skills that are not taught and propose ideas for new classes.
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Death and Taxes
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Students will analyze facts and documents related to the study of WWI. Concepts such as, conflict, nationalism, imperialism, science and technology and the effect geography had on the region will be studied.
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I Need Money - I Need a Job
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We all expect students to work and earn money for the things they want. Who teaches them these skills? This is the perfect lesson for not only students who will begin to work during their high school years, but for all students. This experience is one that may be adjusted for any school classroom. Depending on the age level and individual student needs, the experience length may need to be adapted accordingly.
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Banking
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Students will independently set up their own bank account
at the bank of their choice. Students will pick one of the following essential
questions and write a five paragraph essay answering the question. They will
include this in their presentation.
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Career Exploration/Job Shadowing
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This unit is designed to guide students in making career decisions. They will begin by examining their interests, matching their interests to a career, exploring how to attain that career and finally job shadowing a person in that occupation.
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Using digital photographs in personal portfolios
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This learning unit is designed to provide instruction on the use of digital photography in the development of a professional portfolio. It will emphasize the purpose and importance of professional portfolios in the work world. More specifically it will teach the value of using photographs in portfolios. It will go on to teach the mechanics of a good photograph, how to operate a digital camera and how to use the software to print digital photographs.
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Picture Yourself In Time
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Getting high school students to think seriously about their future is difficult. This Learning Unit uses the cover of Time magazine as the basis for some introspective analysis of what a student really hopes to become. Standard graphics units on type identification and graphics software use for page layout have already been taught. A graphics software is used to generate the final piece, and a digital camera is used for the personal portrait.
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Career Explorations
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Cuides students in making career decisions and electronic resumes.
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Good for Business?
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Global Studies students will examine an
assigned country guided by a series of worksheets
and exercises to determine; (1) if Oneida Limited
should expand its market into this country and (2)
if the student would like to represent the company
in this country. Through a series of data collec-
tion and examination exercises the students gain
insight into how to use the gathered information
for decision-making in the culminating writing
activity. Additionally, the unit gives students
an opportunity to see how the content of Global
Studies is relevant in today's inter-dependent
business world.
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Financial Management for Office Technology
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This unit is used to incorporate the 3rd math credit into Office Technology. Technology concepts, as well as math concepts are being used to accomplish this. The knowledge of computer programs is vital for office technology students. This unit will show the usefulness of different programs in their everyday life, inside and outside the office.
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Styles of Salon Operations and Technology
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(This experience works in conjunction with "Salon Demographics and Design" unit already posted on Title 3 web site.)
This experience is used to incorporate vocational applied math & technology into the Cosmetology program in conjunction with the New York State standards.
This Power Point Presentation aids the students in planning to design and operate a salon.
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Salon demographics and Design for Voc Applied Math
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Incorporte 3rd math unit into Cosmetology in conjunction with the new NYS standards.
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Do you Have What it Takes
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Project based: job/career search.
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If You Build It They Will Come
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How do the 4 P’s of Marketing (Price, Place, Product, and Promotion) apply to the Sports & Entertainment Marketing Field? What are the factors considered when a new sports complex or stadium is to be built? Do you have what it takes to work in the Sports Marketing Field? This unit has links to internet sites.
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Celebrate the Arts
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Advertising Design Class, students are expected to complete assignments using different mediums, and will understand the roles a person in the Advertising Field has, includes meeting deadlines, being creative, working toward a specific goal and presenting completed projects in a professional manner. Students are upperclassmen, most have had some art courses and been introduced to the basics. Assignments are challenging, but allow students to succeed and see personal growth, allows students to create an Advertising Campaign in which they are able to support the arts program, creating T-shirts, designing posters, billboards, and videotaping commercials created from original storyboards. Theme of this campaign is "Celebrate the Arts."
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Collaborative Inventions
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Teaching business and technology using a product invention.
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