Take This Job and Love It! A Career Unit

Activity List

The following is a list of activities designed to provide teachers with a comprehensive, standards-aligned, literacy & technology-infused curriculum for this unit.  Feel free to add your own elements, skip activities, or modify the unit to work best for you and your students.

Intended Learning

Students will explore career interests and create a yearly budget based on the salary of their chosen careers.

Unit Activities

• Getting Started
• Job / Career Research
• Using a Budget
• Setting the Scene for the Budget
• Housing
• Transportation
• Household Operations
• Other Household Costs
• Balancing the Budget
• Completing the Budgeting Process
• Explanation and Initial Work of Final Project
• Completion of Final Project
• Presentations of Final Projects / Culminating Activity

All the lessons in this unit are designed to provide you with content and strategies to implement the activities.  Please feel free to use your professional discretion as to sequence and content.