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Career Workbooks...


Dream Catchers
—Workbook, Fourth Edition

by Norene Lindsay (2008, JIST Works, 7.95)
     [Check/Credit Card Price...Less 21% = 6.28]

This inexpensive, best-selling workbook helps middle-grade students with career awareness and development through numerous hands-on activities. It gives them the opportunity to plan their future, showing them how to “catch their future dreams” and make them come true. Grades 6-10. [8.5” x 11”...88 pages]


Dream Catchers Activities CD-ROM:
Fourth Edition

by Norene Lindsay (2008, JIST Works, 26.95)
     [Check/Credit Card Price...Less 21% = 21.29]

Includes more than 80 hands-on reproducible supplemental activities that extend learning. Teachers have permission to copy activities as handouts for the students in their classes. Students complete activity sheets in class or as homework. Windows/Macintosh.


Dream Catchers Teacher's Guide CD-ROM:
Fourth Edition

by Norene Lindsay (2008, JIST Works, 21.95)
     [Check/Credit Card Price...Less 21% = 17.34]

The Teacher's Guide includes at least one lesson plan for each activity in Dream Catchers, each with an objective and independent, small group, or class activities. Includes suggestions for integrating reproducible activity sheets into lesson plans. Step-by-step format reduces preparation time. Windows/Macintosh.


EZ Occupational Outlook Handbook

Edited (2007, JIST Works, 19.95)
     [Check/Credit Card Price...Less 21% = 15.76]

Based on the larger Occupational Outlook Handbook (19.95/15.76), this book gives current and reliable job information in easy-to-swallow one-page bites. From starting salaries to projected job growth, each job description contains everything you need to research careers. Grades 7 and above. [8.5” x 11”...322 pages]


Young Person’s Career Skills Handbook

Edited (2006, JIST Works, 19.95)
     [Check/Credit Card Price...Less 21% = 15.76]

Here is a brand-new resource for introducing students in grades 4–9 to the skills employers want and need in their future employees. This illustrated book is a fun solution to teaching the foundation skills and workplace skills listed in the Department of Labor’s SCANS 2000 guidelines. Grades 4-9. [7.5” x 9.5”...250 pages]


Adolescent Career Development
: Classroom, Group, and Individual Guidance Activities

Edited by Patricia del Valle (2005, Educational Media, 29.95)
     [Check/Credit Card Price...Less 21% = 23.66]

Here are ways to help your students combine relevant social skills, and career goals, while learning the career decision-making process. Each section of this guide begins with pre/post test for use as an introduction and a measurement for what has been learned. Reproducible worksheets can be used individually, or in groups, to help students explore their interests, skills, and goals. Grades 6-12. [8.5” x 11”...160 pages]


Young Person’s Occupational Outlook Handbook
: Sixth Edition

Edited by Lori Cates (2007, JIST Works, 19.95)
     [Check/Credit Card Price...Less 21% = 15.76]

Based on the Occupational Outlook Handbook (19.95/15.76), this popular guidebook groups together related job descriptions, making it easy to study job options based on interests. The text stresses the connection between school subjects and future careers. The book is grouped into 11 sections based on the main sections of the latest OOH. Within each section are one-page descriptions of related jobs (there are nearly 270 jobs in the book). Grades 4-9. [7.5” x 9”...320 pages]


Self-Exploration Inventories
: 16 Reproducible Self-Scoring Instruments, Third Edition

by James Lee, et al. (2002, Educational Media, 12.95)
     [Check/Credit Card Price...Less 21% = 10.23]

These 16 reproducible self-scoring inventories are designed to help middle and high school students explore their personal qualities, skills, values, and attitudes. They measure most anything relating to career planning, studying, and learning. Each instrument has been redesigned for ease in scoring and interpretation. Grades 6-12. [8.5" x 11"...32 pages]


Young Person's OOH Activities

Edited (2003, JIST Works, 1.95)
     [Check/Credit Card Price...Less 21% = 1.54]

Worksheets and activities for use with the OOH. The activities are for use with middle school students. They can be used as homework, in a class, or with another group. Grades 5-9. [7” x 11”...16 pages]


Pathfinder
: Exploring Career and Educational Paths

by Norene Lindsay (2004, JIST Works, 10.95)
     [Check/Credit Card Price...Less 21% = 8.65]

A high-interest workbook that helps students plan for high school and post-secondary training. It includes an extensive career assessment section based on 14 interest areas. A Teacher’s Guide is available for 21.95 that helps greatly if you do career groups. Grades 6-12. [8.5” x 11”...128 pages]


Exploring Careers…Activity Book
: A Young Person's Guide to Over 1,000 Jobs, Third Edition

Edited (2004, JIST Works, 24.95/pack of 10)
     [Check/Credit Card Price...Less 21% = 19.71]

This activity book is to be used with the book, "Exploring Careers." The many workbook activities will help your students apply and expand their career research. Grades 6-12. [8.5” x 11”...32 pages]


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