HS.31 Understanding Career Clusters (PowerPoint)
This is a National FFA LifeKnowledge high school lesson (HS.31) titled “Understanding Career Clusters.” It teaches students to define what career clusters are and to identify and list the seven career pathways within the Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources career cluster, including example careers for each pathway. The lesson includes an interest approach, teaching strategies, an assessment, and transparency masters.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Define career clusters.
- List the career pathways for agriculture, food and natural resources.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 50 minutes.
- Grade level
- High School
- Materials
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- Career Cluster Resources, 2002
- www.careerclusters.org
- Transparencies—HS.31.TM.A–H
- Overhead Projector
- HS.31.Assess—one per student
- Unit
- Stage One of Development—ME
- Problem Area
- How Do I Begin to Grow?
- Precepts
- Definition of Technical/Functional
- Key Terms
- Career clusters
Downloads & Links
Lesson plan
Presentation
Aligned Standards
National Standards
- NSS-EC.9-12.15Investment — Understand economic growth creates new employment and profit opportunities in some industries, but growth reduces opportunities in other industries.