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EDUCATION
Career Education Activities for Middle and High School Students
Before The Museum Visit
STUDENT ACTIVITIES INCLUDE ...
Exploring Michigan's Career Pathways
| Arts and Communication |
Health Sciences |
Business Management Marketing
& Technology |
Human Services |
Engineering / Manufacturing
and Industrial Technologies |
Natural Resources and Agricultural Science |
Completing lessons and projects in the ROCK U.S.A™ 7-24-21-5™ Career Education Program dealing with basic employability skills.
Completing a Personal Interest Inventory that includes ...
- Hobbies
- Extracurricular activities
- School preferences
- Talents and abilities
- Likes and dislikes
Completing an Anticipation Guide before viewing the following videos:
- Walter P. Chrysler In the Early Years
- Speed and Power (The Muscle Cars)
- Inside the Chrysler Tech Center
Constructing a timeline of Walter P. Chrysler's life.
Constructing a timeline of their own life.
Brainstorming career opportunities in the automotive industry.
Identifying automotive terms, automobile parts and their function.
At The Museum
Presentation by a Chrysler representative outlining various career opportunities, the skills needed and education necessary for success.
INQUIRY-BASED ACTIVITIES ...
Encourage students to relate automobiles and museum displays to the following career pathways ...
- Engineering
- Technology
- Manufacturing
- Marketing
- Natural Resources
- Business
- Communication
Provide hands-on demonstrations with Museum docents to observe, explore and construct new knowledge about automotive careers. Help students recognize Chrysler engineering and design innovations that changed automotive history ...
- Power steering
- Brake systems
- Minivan
- Aerodynamics
- HEMI® engine
- Platform team design concept
Allow students to make connections between their school subjects and the skills needed to be successful in a chosen career.
Develop an awareness and appreciation of the social, cultural and economic impact of the automobile.
After The Museum Visit
STUDENT ACTIVITIES INCLUDE ...
Choosing a Career Pathway based on their pre-visit personal interest inventory. Researching skills and educational tools needed to be successful and creating a presentation to showcase the chosen pathway.
Listing Automotive careers
In co-operative groups of three, students wil list automotive careers they learned about fromt eh museum visit, discuss skills needed in each career. Each student will choose one career from teh list and complete additional research.
Designing a car, writing a car commercial and presenting it to classmates.
Matching automotive careers to skills required for job performance.
Comparing and contrasting two automotive careers and listing ...
- Job description
- Skills required
- Education requirements
- Work environment
- Earnings and advancements
- Employment opportunities
Adding information to the pre-visit timeline of Walter P. Chrysler and making a list of the skills that helped him achieve success.
Adding information to their own timeline by making predictions about future education and career choices.
Exploring Automotive Careers
ACTIVITIES ARE ALIGNED WITH THE FOLLOWING MICHIGAN CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK BENCHMARKS AND CAREER EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS ...
Content Standard I: Students will apply basic communication skills (e.g., reading, writing, speaking and listening), apply scientific and social studies concepts, and perform mathematical processes in work-related situations.
Content Standard II: Students will acquire, organize, interpret, and evaluate information from career awareness and exploration activities, career assessment, and work-based experiences to identify and to pursue other career goals.
Content Standard III: Students will demonstrate the ability to combine ideas or information in new ways, make connections between seemingly unrelated ideas, and organize and present information in formats such as symbols, pictures, charts and graphs.
Content Standard IV: Students will make decisions and solve problems by specifying goals, identifying resources and constraints, generating alternatives, considering impacts, choosing appropriate alternatives, and showing respect for others.
Content Standard V: Students will display personal qualities such as responsibility, self-management, ethical behavior, and respect for others.
Content Standard VI: Students will identify, organize, plan and allocate resources (such as time, money, materials, and human reources) efficiently and effectively.
Content Standard VII: Students will work cooperatively with people of diverse backgrounds and abilities and contribute to a group process with ideas and suggestions.
Content Standard X: Students will integrate employability skills into behaviors, which prepare one for obtaining, maintaining, advancing and changing employment.
THE EXPLORING AUTOMOTIVE CAREERS UNIT INCLUDES ACTIVITIES FROM:
ROCK U.S.A.™ 7-24-21-5™
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The first seven seconds
Deals with first making decisions and first impressions |
| 24 |
Twenty-four hours (can be more or less time)
Deals with long- and short-term goals and tools needed to reach these goals |
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Twenty-one days of practice. Practice makes permanent improvements |
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The five A's of success Attendance, Ambition, Attitude, Ability to follow directions, Ability to get along with others |
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