Lesson Plan: E -Jobs Trading Cards (5-8)

Jasmine Fry, Donald Graham Elementary School
Lake Elsinore Unified School District, California

Essential questions: What types of jobs are considered green or ejobs? What type of job would I like to have? What do I need to do to get on the right track for obtaining this job? How are the different jobs essential and helpful to the environment?

Overview

This lesson will teach students about a variety of environmental jobs. It will give them the opportunity to research jobs, their descriptions and qualifications, and then share the information with their classmates, while participating in a fun art activity.

Objectives: By the end of this lesson all students will be aware of a variety of green jobs and the requirements to obtain these careers

Time: 4 class periods

Subjects: Language Arts

Suggested Grade Level: 5-8

Vocabulary: Kilowatt hour, wattage rate

Materials: EJob information print outs, 3x5 index cards, pens, colored pencils

Time: 60 minutes

Preparation & Background

The teacher must first research and print up different ejob postings that include: a description of the job, salary, its impact on the environment and the requirements needed.

Visit the following sites that identify various green jobs: www.getintoenergy.com/skills.asp; www.greencareersguide.com/Good-Green-Jobs.html.

Procedure

1. Tap Prior Knowledge: Ask the students about environmentally friendly jobs, how jobs can help the environment, and what it takes to obtain these jobs. Also tap knowledge about trading cards (picture on front, statistics and facts on the back).                                                       
2. E-Jobs Trading Cards Objective: Tell the students that they will be researching different ejobs and making trading cards about the jobs, then, they will be presenting their trading card.
3. Pass out the e-job print outs. Have students go through their print out with a highlighter, highlighting all the key facts: job requirements, salary, job duties, how the job impacts the environment, important facts.
4. Then give students the brain storming sheet and have them fill it out with the information they have found.
5. Next give students the index cards, on the front (no lines) they are to write the job title and draw a picture of themselves with that job. On the back (lined side) they are to again write the title of the job. They are also to include, salary, job requirements (education, experience, other), training (if any), job duties, interesting and important facts, and impact on the environment.
6. After the students have finished the jobs they need to practice presenting their jobs in a fun way.

Extensions:

• Present e-jobs: Students present their jobs to the class.
• Opinion poll: List the jobs on the board ask students to vote for the jobs they would want.

Math Extension:

• Students can graph the information from the opinion poll using; bar graphs, histograms, line graphs, circle graphs, etc. They can also find the mean, median, mode, and range of the opinion poll.

For Discussion

• Which job would you like to have? Why?
• Which job seems the most important? Why?
• What is a common requirement among many of the jobs?
• Which job seems the most difficult? Why?
• Why is education so important to obtaining an ejob?

Further Exploration

For extra credit students are to go home and research an e-job that they find and present it to the class. They can also research and present environmentally friendly companies.

View the entire E-Jobs Trading Cards lesson.