CO Earth Sciences Career Planning Exercise
Summary
Students use College in Colorado (CollegeinColorado.org) website to investigate careers within environmental science and geography, and investigate their own skill set and interests.
Learning Goals
Content Goals
learn about types of jobs available and get realistic view of career options, salaries, skills and training needed, within environmental science/geography.Higher-Order Thinking Goals
students must apply content knowledge to real world career possibilitiesSkills Goals
research skills, computer use skills, and potentially presentation skills.Context for Use
Audience
intended for Introduction to Environmental Science or Geography course for freshmen/sophomore level science and non-science majors, could easily be adapted to any content and any school levelNecessary Skills and Concepts
basic reading and math skills and course contentHow Situated in the Course
done at end of semester to investigate careers in content area and see how they might fit into one of those careersDescription and Teaching Materials
multiple assignments available
CO career planning exercise (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 17kB Nov15 15)
Document Your skills (Acrobat (PDF) 44kB Nov15 15)
CO career planning exercise (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 17kB Nov15 15)
Document Your skills (Acrobat (PDF) 44kB Nov15 15)
Teaching Notes and Tips
Assignments can done as homework or adapted to in class presentations.
Documents (worksheets) can be adapted to fit into any course.
Share your modifications and improvements to this activity through the Community Contribution Tool »
Assessment
completion of worksheet and/or presentation
References and Resources
CollegeinColorado.org