Paws in jobland grades 3 5 lesson plans worksheets

Lesson Plan 1 - Getting to Know Paws in Jobland Individual activity Learning objectives: Background: Paws in Jobland is a program that • To learn about the four features of Paws in Jobland, explore career interests and learn how to find career information allows the student the freedom to browse through occupations that interest them. Learning and exploration are self-paced. Worksheet 1 encourages students to interact with the computer program while it introduces them to the features of the program and the occupations available. Curriculum links: Art, Career Exploration, Technology – database exploration. Resources needed/preparation: • Photocopies of Worksheet 1 • Writing materials • Crayons/fiber-tip pens Introduction/guidelines for students: • Students may feel comfortable using Paws in Jobland without guidance. However, for those who are less familiar with computers, the activities on this worksheet will help them to feel successful immediately. • The worksheet could be used to introduce the program in one session or lesson by lesson, allocating a certain amount of time to each of the three activities. • Introduce the students to Paws in Jobland. A witty (or so he thinks) dog called Paws gives you a tour of Jobland and introduces you to the four main sections. The four sections of the program are as follows: • Jobland is the main section of the program. There are 20 clusters/areas in Jobland. Each area contains a number of jobs. There are five or six photographs illustrating each job, and each has a soundtrack/written commentary describing how that job is done. • Job Finder uses a simple process to match students’ interests with the Jobland areas. The student answers a series of questions. Once all the questions have been answered, the program highlights the areas of Jobland that contain jobs that might interest the student. • The Quiz is a fun way of consolidating what has been learned while using the program. • ABC Search is an alphabetical listing to give students easy access to all of the job listings and information. Ideas for further development: • Activity one: Pick another letter, or several letters, so that students become comfortable with using the ABC Search. • Activity two: Have the students work in pairs and discuss the differences or similarities in the outcome (suggested job areas) for each student. • Activity three: Find pictures of jobs from newspapers or magazines to stick onto bristol board and cut into jigsaw puzzle pieces. Pairs or groups of students could swap jigsaw pieces and have a race to see who can put the jigsaw puzzle together the fastest. Ideas for making the activity easier: • Some students might need further assistance with finding their way around the program. You may need to show them in groups before they use the computer on their own. Display ideas: Ask students to make a poster advertising Paws in Jobland. This will encourage other students in the school to use it. Pin up some of the drawings generated by this worksheet’s first activity around the poster. Paws in Jobland Lesson Plans - Grades 3-5  Worksheet 1 - Getting to Know Paws in Jobland My Name: Materials/Resources Needed: Photocopies of Worksheet 1 Writing Materials Date: Crayons and fiber-tip pens Activity 1: Using ABC Search Click ABC Search in the Paws in Jobland menu. Click the letter B. Choose a job that you like and click it. The person who does that job will tell you all about it. Exit Paws in Jobland and draw a picture of the job. Activity 2: Using Job Finder Click Job Finder in the Paws in Jobland menu. Answer all the questions. Paws will choose some areas of Jobland for you. These are the areas of work Paws thinks you might enjoy. Paws uses your answers to work out which areas of work to show you. Look at all the areas highlighted. Pick the job that you like best from all of those areas. Activity 3: Using the Quiz Click Quiz in the Paws in Jobland menu. Paws will tell you how to answer the questions that are hidden in the drawers. If you get a wrong answer, you can open the drawer again and try a different question. If you like, you can time yourself to see how quickly you do the Quiz. Before you start, look at a clock or watch and make a note of the time. Look again when you have finished. How much time did it take? Make sure you include the time it took to do the picture puzzle at the end!  Paws in Jobland Lesson Plans - Grades 3-5 Lesson Plan 2 - Role Play Group activity: 45 minutes plus performance time. Learning objectives: Background: This activity is a fun way of getting to • To be able to communicate effectively with other students; to be able to work as part of a team; to become familiar with database exploration know some of the jobs in Paws in Jobland. It is also an ideal activity for introducing the program to the whole class. Used in conjunction with Getting to Know Paws in Jobland, it should ensure that all students have become familiar with Paws in Jobland and have started to think and talk about the world of work. Curriculum links: English – drama/communication, Technology - database exploration. Resources needed/preparation: • Photocopies of Worksheet 2 • Writing materials Introduction/guidelines for students: • Introduce students to Paws in Jobland if they don’t already know about it. The details from Getting to Know Paws in Jobland (Worksheet 1) should help you with the introduction. • Divide the class into groups of about four students each. Allocate a different cluster/area of Paws in Jobland to each group. (e.g. Health Science, Information Technology) • Ask them to spend time with the program looking at their assigned area. They should then choose a job from that area. If they have a copy of the worksheet in front of them, this will help to shape the knowledge they will need to effectively communicate aspects of the job to their classmates. • You could specify a time for each group to look at their job (10 minutes should be sufficient) so that there is time for other groups to use the program, as well as time for preparation. • When everyone has looked at their area and chosen a job, ask each group in turn to role play that job for the rest of the class. You may need to explain the term role play. They could imagine that they are acting in a play as someone who does that particular job. Within each group, one person could act out the job while the others are colleagues, clients, etc. Alternatively all members of the group could be doing the job. • Ask the rest of the class to guess which job they are seeing, and to which area it belongs. • Compile a list on the chalkboard of the environments and jobs as they are guessed. Ideas for further development: • To make the role play harder, the students could mime the actions of the person in the job so that there are no verbal clues. • Each person within the group could have their own job (i.e. four jobs per group) so that the other students have to guess all four jobs. • Ask groups to allocate jobs to each other without you knowing and see if you can guess them. • It may be interesting to see which jobs are played by boys and which by girls. This could be an opportunity to address gender stereotyping. Ideas for making the activity easier: • This activity doesn’t have to be done as a guessing game. Each group could announce to the others what their job is and perform it to show what the job entails. • Instead of role play, this activity could be done with each group drawing a picture on the chalkboard or a poster to stick on the wall. The others could guess the job and the area to which it belongs. Display ideas: See the advertising poster idea on the Getting to Know Paws in Jobland Lesson Plan 1. This activity could generate pictures of jobs in their environments to be displayed alongside the poster. Paws in Jobland Lesson Plans - Grades 3-5  Worksheet 2 - Role Play My Name: Materials/Resources Needed: Photocopies of Worksheet 2 Writing Materials Date: Directions for Activity: Look at all of the jobs in the Paws in Jobland. area of Choose one of the jobs. You are going to pretend that you do this job. Think about the job. If you were doing the job... What would you talk about? Do you use a telephone or two-way radio? What information do you need? What actions would you do? Do you use tools or equipment? Do you move about a lot or sit still? Where would you work? Are you mostly outside or inside? Do you work with others or by yourself? What would you wear? Do you wear a uniform? Do you need things like a helmet or goggles? Do you dress casually or do you need to dress formally for work? Thinking about these questions will help you to work out a scene, like a short play. You will act this out in front of the class. See if the class can guess what the job is!  Paws in Jobland Lesson Plans - Grades 3-5 Lesson Plan 3 - Health Quiz Individual activity Learning objectives: Background: Paws in Jobland covers only a •To develop research skills and the use of computerbased information •To understand the variety of jobs there are in one area of work selection of the jobs that exist. However, the idea behind the clusters/areas in Jobland is to demonstrate the link between jobs within a particular area. This quiz concentrates on jobs in two areas of Jobland, partly to develop a greater understanding of each of the jobs in those areas and partly to demonstrate that a variety of tasks, skills and experience can be found within the "health" area of work. Curriculum links: English, Technology - database exploration. Resources needed/preparation: • Photocopies of Worksheet 3 • Writing materials Introduction/guidelines for students: • Explain that jobs in one area of work have similarities and differences. You could use your school as an example, describing how the work of the school secretary, the caretaker, the crossing guard, the principal and yourself is different; but you are all linked by the fact that you work in and around a school. • Ask the students to think of jobs that they know of in the "health" area of work. They will probably come up with some of the jobs in the Health Science area of Jobland, but may not think of all of them. • Hand out the worksheets and ask them to look for answers in Paws in Jobland. Ideas for further development: • An extension of the theme could involve students performing a role play exercise. They will probably have seen hospital programs on television. You could ask them to write a script involving some or all of the jobs mentioned, giving the characters suitable and/or humorous names. The plot could involve patients as well as other people who come into contact with health professionals, and could revolve around some of the situations mentioned in the quiz. It would be interesting to see which roles the children take. Do they see certain jobs as being traditionally male and others as traditionally female? You could address this issue with them. • Students could write about their experiences with hospitals or other areas of health care – "A visit to the doctor", "When my baby brother was born", "Visiting grandma in a care home", "When I was rushed to hospital with a broken arm", etc. Ideas for making the activity easier: • The activity could be done in pairs or small groups. • Difficulties with reading or writing could be overcome by working with the student and reading the worksheet questions, asking them to reply verbally once they have seen and heard about the job in Paws in Jobland. Display ideas: "A Day in the Life of a Hospital" - with pictures of health jobs, vehicles, instruments and buildings involved in the day-to-day life of a hospital, plus any poems or short stories to do with doctors, hospitals etc. Quiz sheets could be left out for other students to try. Answers 1) Checking blood pressure, taking temperature, performing blood tests, playing with children, asking doctor for advice, doing paperwork 2) To look at people’s bones to see if any are broken 3) Shops, hospitals, laboratories 4) Paramedic 5) Practical Nurse 6) Helps them to use walking aids, like sticks and crutches, massages them, shows them exercises 7) Hospitals, schools, restaurants, health departments, military 8) By taking X-rays 9) Because they rely on it to save people’s lives 10) Veterinary Assistant Paws in Jobland Lesson Plans - Grades 3-5  Worksheet 3 - Health Quiz My Name: Materials/Resources Needed: Photocopies of Worksheet 3 Writing Materials Date: The answers to all these questions can be found in Paws in Jobland. Look in the Health Sciences area. Can you name three things a nurse does? Why do X-Ray Technicians use x-rays? Name three places where a pharmacist might work. If you call 911 for an ambulance, which person will come? Who does the “everyday” jobs on the hospital ward? How does a physical therapist help people who cannot move easily? Name three places where a dietician might work. How does a dentist see what’s happening to your teeth? Why is it important for paramedics to check all the equipment on the ambulance? Who prepares animals for operations and does their lab tests? 10 Paws in Jobland Lesson Plans - Grades 3-5