Lesson Plan

Grade Level:  First year Office Careers Program students
Subject(s): Career choices      
Duration:  2 weeks    
Description:  Office career research utilizing the Internet and a Webquest

Goals:  Students will explore careers in the office environment and become an expert on one particular job.

Objectives:  1.  Students will work with two other students as a group to research information about office careers.  2.  Students will actively participate in the webquest.  3.  Students will create a multimedia presentation of the information they gathered in the webquest.

Prerequisites:  Knowledge of mulitmedia platforms (Hyperstudio, Powerpoint, Ezedia, etc.)

Materials:

• Computers with multimedia software (Hyperstudio, Powerpoint, Ezedia, etc.)
• Internet access
  

Lesson Procedure

• Introduction
• Students will be introduced to different jobs in the office careers field.
• Inspiration will be used to introduce the subject. 
• Main Activities
• Students will explore three different job descriptions.
• Students will explore the position of receptionist using the PowerPoint presentation as a guide. They will take a typing test, get acquainted with telephone etiquette and learn basic customer service techniques.  Powerpoint presentation:  Receptionist
• Students will participate in a customer service role play.
• Students will complete the Careers webquest.
  
• Make a list of ten careers which would best suit your personality type.
• From a list of fastest growing occupations, mark which occupations on your list are among the fastest growing occupations.
• Each person in your group will pick one office occupation from their list and research the career.
• Each person in your group will decide if the chosen career would be best for themselves and why.  They will defend that decision to their group.
• Your team will make a multimedia presentation to the class in which you will explain the chosen occupation for each person, and justify that choice.   
• Closure/Conclusion
•  Give a career presentation to the class using multimedia software.
  
• Follow up lessons/Activities
• Students will give feedback to classmates.

Assessment/Evaluation