Julie McCann
Julie McCann has been teaching for 8 years — one year in elementary school and seven years in middle school. For most of her career, she has taught 6th grade in language arts and social studies. She has a B.A. in K-6 education from Wake Forest University and currently works as a middle school program manager for the CareerStart program.
Resources created by Julie McCann
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- Autobiographical expression
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 1.2
- 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: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Guidance)
- By Ruth Roberts.Adapted by Jennifer Brookshire and Julie McCann.
- Car mania: The legacy of the Industrial Revolution
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 4.8
- In this lesson, students participate in an assembly-line activity and gain an understanding of the role of the assembly line in the Industrial Revolution.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Social Studies)
- By Shea Calloway and Julie McCann.
- Career research and acrostic poetry
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 1.6
- In this lesson for grade 6, each student will research a chosen career and will use the information to create an acrostic poem.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Guidance)
- By Holly Grout, Deborah Smith, and Natalie Summers.Adapted by Jennifer Brookshire and Julie McCann.
- Careers in border security: Working with passports
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 4.2
- 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.
- Cause and effect in the workplace
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 1.10
- This lesson for grade 6 will help students understand cause and effect and how these concepts apply to the workplace.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Guidance)
- By Jennifer Brookshire and Julie McCann.
- Comparing and contrasting careers
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 1.9
- 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: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Guidance)
- By Jennifer Brookshire and Julie McCann.
- Details and sequencing
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 1.7
- 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: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Guidance)
- By Jennifer Brookshire and Julie McCann.
- European and South American agriculture
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 4.3
- 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: lesson plan (grade 6 Social Studies)
- By Mandy Matlock.Edited by Julie McCann.
- Fact and opinion in the real world
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 1.8
- This lesson for grade 6 will help students understand the differences between fact and opinion based on career-related examples.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 English Language Arts)
- By Jennifer Brookshire and Julie McCann.
- Finding hidden messages in advertising
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 1.3
- 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: lesson plan (grade 6 Dance Arts Education and English Language Arts)
- By Jennifer Brookshire and Julie McCann.
- Grammar and editing
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 1.4
- In this lesson for grade six, students will learn about the conventions of grammar and will learn how to write and edit a business letter.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 English Language Arts)
- By Jennifer Brookshire and Julie McCann.
- Meteorologists: Working with data analysis
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 2.4
- This lesson for grade six introduces students to careers in meteorology and engages them in meteorological data analysis.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Mathematics)
- By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.Edited by Julie McCann.
- Solving problems, writing solutions
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 1.5
- In this lesson for grade 6, students consider problems in the workplace and follow writing prompts to craft solutions.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Guidance)
- By Jennifer Brookshire and Julie McCann.
- Sound properties and careers in music
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 3.8
- This lesson for grade six uses a hands-on lab to help students understand key concepts in the properties of sound, and how they can be applied to careers in music.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Music Education and Science)
- By April Galloway and Christine Scott.Edited by Julie McCann.
- Think like a scientist
- Written to accompany a sixth-grade science lesson, this article explains important concepts in scientific inquiry, including observation, inference, prediction, classification, model-making, and communication.
- Format: article
- By April Galloway and Christine Scott.Edited by Julie McCann.
- Using inquiry skills
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 3.1
- This lesson for grade 6 introduces students to important scientific skills such as observation, inference, prediction, classification, and communication. Students practice some of these skills and discuss how they may be used in various careers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science)
- By April Galloway and Christine Scott.Edited by Julie McCann.
- Using reference materials
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 1.1
- In this lesson for grade 6, students gain an understanding of how classified ads are used to search for jobs.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Guidance)
- By Jennifer Brookshire and Julie McCann.
