For Ohio Family and Consumer Science Teachers

Aliens and Assets - Introductory Career Inquiry Unit

Unit Description

Entry Event

FCS Standards and Academic Connections

Implementing the Unit

Resources

Teacher Tips

Assessment

Ohio FCS Standards and Academic Connections

Standard: Manage Personal Transitions

Benchmark A. Explore the role of academic achievement in transitions.

Descriptors:

  1. Describe roles of multiple intelligences as a way to direct and manage learning about transitions.
  2. Describe metacognitive skills needed to chart progress toward self-efficacious personal and academic growth.

Standard: Manage Personal Transitions

Benchmark B. Explain factors that influence personal and academic life transitions.

Descriptors:

  1. Identify reliable sources of information for developing a plan for personal and academic success (e.g., adult mentors).
  2. Identify personal interests and developmental assets applicable to transitions.
  3. Describe goal setting and planning strategies to guide life transitions.

Standard: Design a Career Blueprint

Benchmark A: Develop an individual academic career plan based on self-knowledge and interests.

Descriptors:

  1. Develop profile of interests, attitudes, goals, skills, and expectations related to career options.
  2. Identify career information resources.
  3. Recognize factors affecting career choices.
  4. Relate career clusters to interests and talents.
  5. Identify education and training opportunities (e.g., military, college apprenticeship, career and technical education, entrepreneurship).
  6. Draft individual career plan.

Correlated English Language Arts Academic Content Benchmarks

  • Use appropriate self-monitoring strategies for comprehension. (Reading Process C, 8-10; Reading Process C, 11-12)
  • Produce functional documents that report, organize and convey information and ideas accurately, foresee readers’ problems or misunderstandings and that include formatting techniques that are user-friendly. (Writing Applications C, 11-12)
  • Evaluate the usefulness and credibility of data and sources. (Research B, 8-10)
  • Organize information from various resources and select appropriate sources to support central ideas, concepts and themes. (Research C, 8-10)

Standard: Design a Career Blueprint

Benchmark B: Identify job search skills.

Descriptors:

  1. Write beginning resume.
  2. Recognize possible job search resources (e.g., family, neighbors, friends).
  3. Explore career possibilities through volunteer activities.

Correlated English Language Arts Academic Content Benchmarks

  • Edit to improve sentence fluency, grammar and usage. (Writing Processes D, 8-10)
  • Produce functional documents that report, organize and convey information and ideas accurately, foresee readers’ problems or misunderstandings and that include formatting techniques that are user friendly. (Writing Applications C, 11-12)

Standard: Design a Career Blueprint

Benchmark C: Understand career and workplace issues.

Descriptors:

  1. Identify social, economic, technical, and global trends impacting the workplace.
  2. Identify implications of life and work changes (e.g., multiple careers in a lifetime, work-from-home technologies, emerging careers, secure technology systems).

Correlated Social Studies Academic Content Benchmarks

  • Explain how the endowment and development of productive resources affect economic decisions and global interactions. (Economics A, 6-8)
  • Explain why trade occurs and how historical patterns of trade have contributed to global interdependence. (Economics B, 6-8)

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