Write the name of your career on the Post-It. Place your Post-It in the correct box according to the resources that you think your career would deal with (i.e. plants, animals, water, soil). You may be dealing with more than one resource so choose the appropriate box.
Career Matching Activity. You may work together with the people on your row.
Pass your career cards and your Career Matching worksheets toward the center. The person on the aisle should turn the worksheets into the basket and return the career cards to the bag on the front table.
Career Trek
Holland Theory.
Answer the questions on Holland's Interest Assessment worksheet.
Score your assessment and mark your top one or two areas.
Look over the list of occupations for your top two areas on the Agricultural Career Options cards. Select an occupation that interests you.
Search for your first career using the Utah Futures Occupation Search. Fill out the Ag Career Investigation worksheet about this occupation. If you are unable to find the occupation using the search tool, look at the list again and choose another occupation.
Share what you found with a partner (if time allows).
Play the Career Trek game (wait for instructions).
Name Your Map "Top Producers In the United States."
Click Save.
Name the layer whatever commodity you chose. For example, wheat.
Search for the first state on the list.
Click Add to map.
Click on the pencil in the lower right-hand corner of the box. Type in the Share of US Receipts percent from the chart. Edit the name to include the ranking of that state. For example, North Dakota #1.
Click Save.
Click on the paint bucket.
Click more icons.
Click custom icons.
Select Google Image Search and search for a picture or your commodity. (Ex. peach)
Select the picture you want to use and click the Select button. Your custom icon should appear in your icons list. You can now use this icon for your marker.
Search for the next state on your list and repeat steps 10-13 for the next 9 states on the list.
When you finish your first commodity, select another one.
Add a new layer and name that whatever commodity you chose 2nd. For example, apples.
Repeat steps 10-15. Customize the icon so that it is different from the one you chose on your first layer.