Career exploration is a hallmark of Career & Technical Education (CTE). CTE combines rigorous academics with hands-on training to give students the chance to explore careers and discover jobs they are passionate about. We collaborated with industry professionals to write 40 free lesson plans for exploring CTE careers. The jobs featured in this curricula (which include activities and assessments) explore careers related to our own unique training tools. Keep reading to learn how these free lesson plans can help you explore careers related to Family & Consumer Sciences (FCS), health science, culinary arts, welding and trade skills, agriculture and even business and marketing.
FCS career exploration curriculum
Realityworks began with the creation of RealCare Baby®, and it seemed natural that the first career exploration curriculum we wrote related to Baby and our line of infant simulators and models. This set of 5 lesson plans explores careers related to our RealCare® Pregnancy Profile Simulator, RealCare™ Drug-Affected Baby, RealCare™ Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Baby, RealCare™ Shaken Baby and of course, RealCare Baby. Use these lessons to learn more about the jobs of labor and delivery nurses, early childhood teachers, child care workers and more.
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Agriculture career exploration curriculum
What skills and abilities do successful employees working in occupations relating to animal systems possess? What does a day in the life of an agribusiness professional look like? These questions ad others are addressed in our agriculture career exploration curriculum. Use the six included lesson plans to teach your students about jobs related to our agriculture training tools, including animal and plant systems, agribusiness, food products and processing, and more.
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Health science career exploration curriculum
Health science careers are in demand, and that demand is only going to increase as more Americans age into retirement. Use these lesson plans to help your students identify career opportunities relating to healthcare, therapeutic services, biotechnology research and development, and others. They will discover the educational requirements, typical job duties, occupational outlook and more for each explored health science profession.
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Welding career exploration curriculum
A background in welding can lead to opportunities in education and management, especially with the demand and need for skilled welders. This free curriculum takes a closer look at the variety of opportunities available in welding today. Use the five free lesson plans as a supplement to your current welding program content or as a stand-alone unit for 1-2 weeks.
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Culinary career exploration curriculum
We partnered with subject matter experts to create curricula that provide valuable culinary arts and food science career exploration opportunities. Use this one-week unit to expose your students to careers related to food service, food science, food production and nutrition in five different career clusters.
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Business and marketing career exploration curriculum
Use the 5 lesson plans in this free curriculum to introduce your students to careers in business management and administration, entrepreneurship, finance and more. As they complete each lesson, students will research and explore pathways in related occupations.
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Resources for learning more
Looking for more classroom resources? Consider these:
- Explore our free infographics and posters, which address topics related to our training tools and simulators
- Check out our free, downloadable guides to learn more about the impact our hands-on learning aids can have on CTE programs
- Browse our selection of on-demand and upcoming webinars
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