WYONG PUBLIC SCHOOL Stage 2&3 CAREERS PROGRAM PRE-KNOWING (all classes): Multiple Intelligences Survey and Analysis

+ Learning Preferences Venn Diagram Activity

To complete this contract you need to gain 15 credit points. You can choose any tasks you like. You may work alone, in pairs or in groups. You should plan your activities using the grid and submit each task for progressive teacher/self assessment as you finish it 1 POINTS
Knowing
WORD SMART Make a list of as many careers and jobs as you can think of, using an Alphabetical List*. Survey students across your class to see which careers people want to choose? Present your results to the class. Make a time line of the history of a chosen career.

2 POINTS
Applying
Design a poster to get adults to consider a new career. You must be persuasive. Apply your knowledge of multiple intelligences and report on your similarities and differences to others in your class. Produce a world map to show where different careers originated.

3 POINTS
Creating
Imagine you are a television journalist. Research and retell the career journey of someone you know. Make a series of complicated maths problems for your maths group based on money earned from a career or a savings goal. Create a short picture book for younger students about a career. (You might like to use Storybird). Create a sculpture of your ideal career.

Understanding
Read a career advertisement/information in the newspaper or job guide and retell it to the class. Explain why it is important to understand ourselves and set career goals.

Analysing
Investigate and write a report for a newspaper about the career of a prominent Australian identity. Compare and contrast* the skills needed in two different careers.

Evaluating
In a group of six, debate Careers should always be fun. Draw your team and position out of a hat and read up on the rules for debating. What might happen if careers did not exist? Use a PCQ chart* to map your thoughts.

NUMBER/LOGIC SMART

ART SMART

Make a collection of pictures of equipment needed in four different careers.

BODY SMART

Play charades with the class to have them guess which career you are representing.

Design and make a model of your ideal workplace.

Create a story map or comic strip* to show someone younger how to develop their skills towards a particular career. Watch a careers show on TV eg Celebrity Apprentice and analyse the body language of the participants

Review two famous artists. Illustrate what you think made each one of them successful.

In a group, act out a creative drama scene where one of you takes on the role of a careers advisor.

(*Thinking Tools)

WYONG PUBLIC SCHOOL Stage 2&3 CAREERS PROGRAM (*Thinking Tools)

1 POINTS
Knowing
MUSIC SMART
Look for information about careers suited to music smart people.

2 POINTS
Applying
Make a soundscape that illustrates the typical sounds heard in the day of a teacher. Research a famous person and write a brief biography of them. Include the career/job they had before they became famous. Make a personal timeline on how you will achieve your career goal.

3 POINTS
Creating
Compose a new chant or song to encourage a person starting their first day of a career.

Understanding
Express your career goals via a song parody (written or performed)

Analysing
Examine a few songs from your favourite artists? Do they tell a story about the artists career journey? Carry out an interview with someone who has a successful career to find out what they think are the important factors for success. How will your personal qualities and smarts enable you to be successful in your chosen career?

Evaluating
Do you believe that high schools focusing on performing arts help students to achieve their career goals? Discuss. Social Problem Solver In a pair or group of three use this strategy to work out how less able members of our community can be as involved in careers as everyone else. Take ten careers you could work in and rank them according to how much you would enjoy them. Give reasons for your rankings. Use an Elimination Draw* to narrow down your choices

PEOPLE SMART

In a group of four make a collection of things about careers and display them in an interesting way.

Choose a career and demonstrate to the class some of the skills that are required to be successful.

Create a facts quiz about careers to conduct with the class.

SELF SMART

List all the careers you think you would like to explore.

Match your smarts to a list of suitable careers.

NATURE SMART

List 5-10 careers where people work with animals or the environment.

Share some photographs taken from within the school environment and explain how people have helped to create those spaces.

Make a video showing adults and children working outdoors.

Investigate two different careers where people work with animals. Compare and contrast*

Thinking Hats* Create a presentation about yourself, featuring your strengths and areas for development and how your strengths will help you to be successful. Include goals that you have set for yourself. Design a careers Prezi using photographs of natural and found material creations.

Should animals be allowed to help humans carry out their day to day jobs? Justify your answer.

(*Thinking Tools)