Career Exploratory - Business and Information Technology
 Career Exploratory
This is a nine-week exploratory class into the Business and Information Technology Pathway. Curriculum will include exploring careers in the Business and Information Pathway.  Students will explore desktop publishing, word processing, graphic and web design, spreadsheet and presentation software.  Assignments might include block letter formats, newsletters, tables, simple budgets, digital imagery and presentations. Since much of the work will be completed in class, daily attendance is highly recommended.
“Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.” Stewart Brand
  • First Day  - Classroom Management Guidelines, PowerPoint
  • Word window – create a simple letter
  • Letter formatting
  • Letter formatting
  • Letter writing assignment
Week 1
3/22 - 3/26
  • Create a simple flyer (design)
  • Word – continue with flyer
  • Word – Flyer assessment - (costume party)
  • Word Art
  • Apples/Apples
Week 2
3/29 - 4/2
Spring Break
  • Beginning a newsletter – content -their day in school
  • Newsletter - drop cap, alignment, columns
  • Alphabet soup
  • Careers with Ms. Jones
  • Careers with Ms. Jones
Week 3
4/12 - 4/16
  • Newsletter  - one page with picture/clip art/Word Art
  • Newsletter - continue
  • Newsletter – Revise
  • Newsletter -Mail
  • Movie - 2 Million Minutes
Week 4
4/19 - 4/23
  • Finish Newsletter  - edits /envelop – mail
  • Intro to Excel - workspace - Test Scores
  • Excel - Formulas Labels/Values/Building and editing worksheets - Temperatures
  • Excel Bowling example / charting
  • Movie - The Trigger Effect
Week 5
4/26 - 4/30
  • Movie - 30 Days on Minimum Wage
  • Movie discussion
  • Excel - Budgets
  • Excel – Budgets/formatting
  • Excel – Assessment
Week 6
5/3 - 5/7
  • Excel - Budget
  • Excel - Budget
  • Excel - Credit and Loans
  • Introduction to  Flash Animation – includes timelines, layers, symbols, etc
  • Flash
Week 7
5/10 - 5/14
  • Flash
  • Flash
  • Flash
  • Flash
Week 8
5/17 - 5/21
  • Flash
  • Intro to PowerPoint - work space/create slides/intro to final project
  • PowerPoint -design/PowerPoint - notes/ continue
  • PowerPoint - notes/text boxes/fonts
Week 9
5/24 - 5/28
  • PowerPoint - Animation/presentation techniques
  • PowerPoint - Backgrounds
  • PowerPoint - Individual work
  • PowerPoint - Revise/Print and Turn in (Friday 6/4)
  • PowerPoint Oral Presentations (6/7 and 6/10)
Week 10/11
5/31 - 6/10

* Subject to change based on class considerations and just-in-time evaluations

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