Happy Holidays

Enjoy the break!

Careers is done!

Well, we finished our careers unit just in time for break. The students should have all their work turned in. After break we will start our unit on economics. This will take us through the semester at the end of January.

Thank you all for caring so much about your children and how they are doing in school. I feel very fortunate to work (and live) in such a great community! Happy holidays, enjoy some family time!

Careers is almost done!

Today in class we went through our pink checklist of everything that needs to be completed by Thursday, Dec 18th. This should help the students see what they are missing and need to complete. I do have extra copies of everything in my room if needed. Please see my previous post for the list of what needs to be turned in. Stay warm!

Careers Outline

Today we worked on our outlines in class. The students will also get tomorrow to work on them during the hour. These outlines should be completed by Monday. Each student will need their outline next week when we begin working on our projects.

Each student has a pink half sheet of paper with a list of everything they will be turning in for the careers unit. These items are due next Thursday, December 18th. Here's the list...

Careers Unit Checklist
110 points total

_____ 3 Tasks completed (15 points, 5 each)
Task One, I Make it Happen, Task Five

_____ Career Interview (10 points)


_____ Results from 2 computer tests printed (10 points)


_____ 2 jobs printed (10 points)
Overview, Task List, General Work, Interests, Knowledge, Preparation, Wages, Employment and Outlook

_____ 3 extras (15 points, 5 each)


_____ Outline and project (50 points)

Careers

This week in our careers unit we will be discussing non traditional jobs.  Jobs where a man or woman decides to work in an occupation made up of the majority of the opposite gender.  (Female police officer, male nurse)  

We will also start working on our outlines.  Each student will choose a career and create an outline about it. Then they will use that outline to create a project.  The students have this information in a handout.  These will be due Thursday, December 18th.    

Careers

We are continuing in our careers unit.  Due to some technical difficulties I am asking for your help.  All students need to have completed the O'Net test and the IDEAS test on the MCIS website.  This needs to be completed by Monday.  The instructions for this are listed in a previous post, the students also have written directions.  These tests can be taken from any computer with internet access.  Thank you for your help with this!  **If you think of it, ask your child what their interest areas were and if they agree with it.**        

Careers

Today the seventh graders were going to the computer lab to take an interest inventory on the computer.  Unfortunately, the lab was out of order!  Only two of my hours were able to go to the library (it was booked the other two). Hopefully we will be able to get to the computer lab sometime this week, but other classes are using it as well, which means I may need to bride some teachers to let us in there.  

This test can be taken at home if you have internet access.  Here's how...

-go to www.melrose.k12.mn.us

-click on district wide, then media center, then careers (under class pages)

-click on my MCIS (upper right corner)

-under new users click on Create my MCIS

-enter the information in the red starred areas, make up a username and password (you will need this the next time we log in, please write it down!)

-click No, I do not want anybody to view my profile, submit

-click on the O'Net interest profiler (left side of screen)

-begin taking the test, hit submit after each question

-when finished with the test:

print your results (upper right corner of screen, by the star)

save your results (upper right corner of screen, by the star)

 

Happy Thanksgiving

Careers Assignment

The seventh graders have an assignment due on Monday, December 1st.  (Holy cow, December already?!) They need to complete page 7 in Task One (a packet) and you need to do page 8.  Please sign the page once you have completed it.  It's pretty easy to complete, just tell me about your child.  

Careers

We have officially finished our geography unit! Today we began talking about careers. We discussed the different possible careers out there. Then the students took an interest inventory to see what they might be good at. We will be doing several of these inventories, on paper and on the computer. By the end of this unit each student should be familiar with at least one career they might be interested in. They will use this career information to create a project. More information on that to follow...

Welcome!

I started this blog as a way for parents and students to stay up to date on what's happening in seventh grade social studies.  I can't promise daily updates, but I can promise that I will try to post when I get the chance.  My hope is to post assignments, classroom activities and other "what's happening" information.  Please remember this is entirely a work in progress.