CareerStart
CareerStart is a program that aims to help students make connections between the academic curriculum and future careers, created by a partnership among the Schools of Education and Social Work at UNC - Chapel Hill, the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school district, and the Piedmont Triad Council of Government.
CareerStart offers a collection of mini-lessons in which core subjects (English language arts, math, science, and social studies) are taught using illustrations from real jobs, enabling students to understand how course content is applied outside the classroom. Through a partnership with LEARN NC, CareerStart has made these mini-lessons available via the LEARN NC website.
Resources provided by CareerStart
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- Autobiographical expression
- This lesson for grade 6 introduces students to the theory of multiple intelligences. Students consider what their personal strengths are according to this theory.
- Format: activity (grade 6 English Language Arts)
- By Ruth Roberts. Adapted by Jennifer Brookshire and Julie McCann.
- Biologists: Working with probability
- In this lesson for grade six, students will use theoretical probability to predict genetic outcomes, and will understand how mathematical probability is used in biological careers.
- Format: activity (grade 6 Mathematics)
- By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.
- Career research and acrostic poetry
- In this lesson for grade 6, each student will research a chosen career and will use the information to create an acrostic poem.
- Format: activity (grade 6 English Language Arts)
- By Holly Grout, Deborah Smith, and Natalie Summers. Adapted by Jennifer Brookshire and Julie McCann.
- Careers in border security: Working with passports
- In this lesson for grade six, students will gain an understanding of careers in transportation and border security and will create their own passports.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Social Studies)
- By Julie McCann.
- Careers in medicine and the ancient Greeks
- In this lesson for grade six, students will learn about ancient Greek medicine and the Hippocratic Oath, and will research contemporary medical careers.
- Format: activity (grade 6 Social Studies)
- By Mandy Matlock.
- Careers in travel: Working with currency exchange
- In this lesson for grade six, students will learn about foreign currency exchange rates and will understand the importance of currency exchange in the travel industry.
- Format: activity (grade 6 Social Studies)
- By Mandy Matlock.
- Cause and effect in the workplace
- This lesson for grade 6 will help students understand cause and effect and how these concepts apply to the workplace.
- Format: activity (grade 6 English Language Arts)
- By Jennifer Brookshire and Julie McCann.
- Chuck Yeager and technological design
- Chuck Yeager's career in aviation spans over 60 years and includes such notable feats as becoming the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound. This lesson for grade 6 introduces students to Yeager's accomplishments and to careers in aviation.
- Format: activity (grade 6 Science)
- By April Galloway and Christine Scott.
- Comparing and contrasting careers
- This lesson for grade six will help students understand comparing and contrasting. Students will conduct career surveys with adults and will use the results to create Venn diagrams.
- Format: activity (grade 6 English Language Arts)
- By Jennifer Brookshire and Julie McCann.
- Details and sequencing
- This lesson for grade six will introduce students to careers in environmental protection as it teaches them to identify details and sequence in a non-fiction reading passage.
- Format: activity (grade 6 English Language Arts)
- By Jennifer Brookshire and Julie McCann.
- Eco-tourism in the Outer Banks
- In this lesson for grade 6, students will learn about the effects of tourists on the delicate ecosystems of North Carolina's Outer Banks. Students will explore careers related to tourism and will attempt to solve tourism/erosion problems in the Outer Banks from a career-based perspective.
- Format: activity (grade 6 Science)
- By April Galloway and Christine Scott.
- Eco-tourism in the Outer Banks of North Carolina
- Written to accompany a sixth-grade science lesson, this article describes the ecology of North Carolina's Outer Banks and discusses the effects of tourism on the region's delicate ecosystems.
- Format: article
- By April Galloway and Christine Scott.
- Energy: Concepts and careers
- In this lesson for grade 6, students will analyze the law of conservation of energy and will apply energy concepts to skateboarding. Students will also explore careers related to energy.
- Format: activity (grade 6 Science)
- By April Galloway and Christine Scott.
- European and South American agriculture
- In this lesson for grade six, students conduct research about agriculture in South America and Europe and organize the information on a compare/contrast map.
- Format: activity (grade 6 Social Studies)
- By Mandy Matlock. Edited by Julie McCann.
- Evaluate forces: Earthquakes
- This lesson for grade six will help students to gain an understanding of geological processes including plate tectonics, faulting, and earthquakes. Students will explore careers related to earthquake analysis, measurement, and disaster management.
- Format: activity (grade 6 Science)
- By April Galloway and Christine Scott.
- Fact and opinion in the real world
- This lesson for grade 6 will help students understand the differences between fact and opinion based on career-related examples.
- Format: activity (grade 6 English Language Arts)
- By Jennifer Brookshire and Julie McCann.
- Finding hidden messages in advertising
- In this lesson for grade six, students will look for hidden messages in magazine advertisements and will create their own ads with hidden messages.
- Format: activity (grade 6 Dance Arts Education and English Language Arts)
- By Jennifer Brookshire and Julie McCann.
- The five themes of geography
- In this lesson for grade six, students will explore different career paths based on the five themes of geography.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Social Studies)
- By Shea Calloway.
- Food service professionals: Working with fractions
- This lesson for grade six demonstrates how an understanding of fractions is important in the food service industry. Students will use operations with fractions to determine how many recipes to make for a given scenario.
- Format: activity (grade 6 Mathematics)
- By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.
- General contractors: Working with area
- This activity for grade six combines math, art, and writing, as students design a floor plan for a house and use calculations of area to arrive at a cost estimate.
- Format: activity (grade 6 Mathematics)
- By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.
