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CareerStart lessons: Grade eight

Contents

  1. About the lessons
  1. 1 English language arts
    1. 1.1Comparing resumés
    2. 1.2Writing a resumé
    3. 1.3Teen job search
    4. 1.4Understanding first jobs
    5. 1.5Persuasive writing: The importance of work permits
    6. 1.6Defining career vocabulary
    7. 1.7Effective communication for successful careers
    8. 1.8Solving workplace problems: Refining the use of argument
    9. 1.9Would you really buy that? Persuasive techniques in advertising
    10. 1.10Determining the author's purpose: Analyzing a recruitment video
  2. 2 Algebra
    1. 2.1Predicting the future with best-fit lines
    2. 2.2Personal trainers: Working with slope
    3. 2.3Working with parabolas
    4. 2.4Free falling: Working with radicals
    5. 2.5Percent of change: What's the deal?
    6. 2.6Postal polynomials
    7. 2.7Utility workers: Working with the Pythagorean theorem
    8. 2.8Working with matrices
    9. 2.9Careers in banking: Working with exponential growth
    10. 2.10Sports statisticians: Working with systems of equations
  3. 3 8th grade math
    1. 3.1Pilots and flight engineers: Working with slope-intercept form
    2. 3.2Interior designers: Working with right triangles
    3. 3.3Graphic designers: Working with scale
    4. 3.4Couriers and messengers: Real-world problem solving
    5. 3.5Landscape architects: Working with indirect measurement
    6. 3.6Woodworkers and finishers: Working with area
    7. 3.7Commercial and industrial designers: Working with volume
    8. 3.8Careers in real estate and customer service: Working with central tendency
    9. 3.9Travel agents: Working with linear functions
    10. 3.10Guidance counselors: Working with scatter plots
  4. 4 Integrated math
    1. 4.1Comparing slopes Coming soon!
    2. 4.2Population predictions Coming soon!
    3. 4.3Comparing companies using linear equations Coming soon!
  5. 5 Science
    1. 5.1Career areas of science: Vocabulary
    2. 5.2Technological artifacts and the evolution of the student desk
    3. 5.3Maintaining safe water: Whose job is it?
    4. 5.4Cell theory and plant respiration
    5. 5.5Microbiology: Bacteria in our environment
    6. 5.6Learning about the earth through remote sensing
    7. 5.7Key deer: Evolution and species survival
    8. 5.8Electroplating: When is a penny worth less than one cent?
    9. 5.9Winter advisory: The effect of salt on the freezing point of water
    10. 5.10Forensic scientists: Identifying unknown substances
  6. 6 Social studies
    1. 6.1Touring the Old North State
    2. 6.2First contact newspaper
    3. 6.3Propaganda war: Patriots vs. Loyalists
    4. 6.4Branching out into politics: The structure of federal and state government
    5. 6.5Safeguarding the Bill of Rights
    6. 6.6Working with an embargo
    7. 6.7Trail of Tears museum exhibit
    8. 6.8U.S. military service through history
    9. 6.9Comparing the New Deal with the 2009 Recovery Act
    10. 6.10U.S. Census: Using the past to predict the future
  1. Index