1. What Do You Want to Do When You
Grow Up?
Designed By:
Tonisha Carter
Catherine Gattis
Jake Hill
Theresa Tigh

2. Introduction
This lesson was
developed to support
career exploration in
middle school. The
promotion of career
exploration can aid
students in selection
of secondary elective
courses as well as in
preparation for
postsecondary choices
Essential Question: How can
exploring careers in middle
school aid in making good
postsecondary choices?

3. Task
• Will be to explore
possible career
options available
• Select a choice
that might be a
good match for
you

4. Have You Considered Technology?
Did you know?
4 of the 10 high
growth
occupations
are in
technology

5. Computer Animator
What they do: manipulate graphics to create the
illusion of movement
Education required: 2 year college+
Earnings: Average $35,000 to
$100,000/year

6. Dispatcher
 What they do: send out help as part of an emergency
response team
 Education required: high school diploma with good
computer and communication skills
 Earnings: Average between $20,000 and $45,000 per year

7. Technology
To see if a technology career might
be right for you, go to
www.careercruising.com
Sign in with user name snellville,
password comets
Click on the careers section on the tab
at the top of the page
Go to search by career cluster and
select careers in computers and telecom

8. What About Education?
What do teachers do everyday?
What is so important about
being a teacher?
How much does a teacher get
paid?
Do teachers really get the whole
summer off?

9. Teachers Make A Difference
Your first task for this part of the
quest will be to answer these
questions.
Go to the
Bureau of Labor and Statistics
website.
You will read the information
available
on the teaching profession.
You will complete the answers to
the questions presented

10. Teachers Make A Difference
Next you will visit Careers:Education and Training
You will read about the different types of
teachers and watch
Videos about the profession.
After you complete this task, you will write a
paragraph about
what teachers do and what your thoughts are on
becoming a teacher.

11. Have You Considered Health Careers?
Do something that matters.
For yourself. For others!!

12. Healthcare Careers
You already know that nursing and other healthcare
jobs are an important way for people to help other
people. And you know that a career in healthcare
gives you a promising future.
You also know that picking a career is serious
business. But all work and no play is no fun at all!
To learn more click here: http://www.
healthmanagementcareers.org/execs.cfm
EDUCATION
CAREER
CAREER CHOICE

13. Healthcare Careers
CAREER
Certified Coding Associate or Specialist
Entry-level education into the career requires
successful completion of Entry Level Competency
Exam (CCA) or Advanced Level Competency
Exam (CCS) which is knowledge based with
requirement of high school diploma.
DESCRIPTION
Coding personnel evaluate health care data to
assign the appropriate medical codes necessary
for reimbursement, research and data retrieval in
a variety of health care setting.
Approximate starting salary varies according to
job selection (coder, supervisor, manager,
director); total career salary ranges from
$20,000-40,000, depending on experience,
education and position.
Certified Home Health Aide
Starting salary: $9-$10/hr
A home health aide is an individual trained to
provide assistance with bathing, eating and other
activities of daily living in a patient's home.

14. Healthcare Careers
Certified Nursing Assistant
Starting salary: N/A
Diagnostic Medical Sonographer
Entry level for a sonographer is an Associate in
Applied Science degree (AAS), which takes two
years to complete, plus a 12-week clinical
practicum.
Starting salary: $15-$17/hr.
Certified nursing assistants provide hands-on
patient care under the direction and supervision
of a nurse. Because of their direct and frequent
contact with patients and families, certified
nursing assistants are often the first healthcare
provider to notice early symptoms or changes in
the patient's condition, making them valuable
members of the healthcare team.
Sonographers are experts in the use of
ultrasound--high-frequency sound waves--to
detect diseases and abnormalities of internal
organs or to view a fetus in the mother's body

15. Healthcare Careers
CAREER
DESCRIPTION
Dietetic Technician
Dietetic technicians work under the
supervision of a registered dietician to
assess, plan and implement food services
Entry level for a dietetic technician is an
Associate in Applied Science degree, which
takes two years to complete.
Starting salary: $13-$15/hr.
and nutrition care Plans
Legal Nurse Consultant
Legal nurse consultants apply their nursing
skills to medically related issues of the law.
Entry level for a legal nurse consultant is a
certificate as a legal nurse consultant,
which takes ten months to complete and a
minimum of two years nursing experience.
rating salary: Consulting fee

16. Healthcare Careers
CAREERS
Nurse Anesthetist
Entry level for a nurse anesthetist is a
master's of science in nursing and a
minimum of one year of acute care nursing.
Starting salary: $45/hr
Nuclear Medicine Technologist
Entry level for a nuclear medicine
technologist is either a diploma in nuclear
medicine technology from a hospital-based
program or an associate in science degree;
either option takes approximately three
years to complete.
Starting salary: $17/hr.
DESCRIPTIONS
Nurse anesthetists administer anesthesia
and manage the care of patients receiving
anesthesia during selected surgical
procedures
Nuclear medicine uses small amounts of
radioactive materials that are administered
to the patient to evaluate the status of
organs and tissues. Nuclear medicine
technologists use specialized detectors and
computers to perform these tests
.

17. Are You Interested?
Take this simple quiz to find out. If
you answer yes to even one of these
questions, there is a job in
healthcare to match your strengths,
interests and professional goals…..

18. QUIZ
Do you enjoy health and science classes?
Do you like working with technology and equipment?
Do you like helping people?
Do you work well in stressful situations?
Do you speak and write well?
Do you like working with computers?
Do you take and follow directions well?
Do you like to learn about the human body and how it works?
Do you like being part of a team?
Do you take pride in doing a job well?

19. More Questions for You
Are you able to explain things easily to people?
Can you delegate responsibilities to others?
Do you consider yourself or would you like to be a leader?
Do you enjoy solving mysteries and puzzles?
Do you like doing something different every day?
Do you want a job that you can start immediately after high school?
Do you want a college education?
Do you want to work in an environment that supports professional growth
and development?
Are you ready for a career change?

20. The Choice is Yours
Do something that matters.
For yourself. For others.

21. Have You Considered Animal Care?
Veterinarian
Conservation Ranger
Animal Control Officer

22. Veterinarian
Provide Animals with
Treatment and Diagnoses
of Injuries and Diseases
Education – Undergraduate
degree with a 3.5 GPA,
Animal Related
Experience, Graduate from
Veterinary School
Pass National Board
Examination
Salary - $77,500-$98,500 per
year
Click the Picture & Find 10 Facts

23. Conservation Ranger
Also Known as Game
Warden
Enforces Laws Obtaining
to Wildlife
Management
Education – College
Degree & Graduate
from Officer Training
School
Salary – $18,000 $42,000 per year
Click the Picture & Find 10 Facts

24. Animal Control
Aids in Animal Protection
Officer
Helps with Stray Animals
and Investigates Animal
Cruelty Cases
Education – On the Job
Training and State
Mandated Courses
Salary - $12.88 – $24.50
per hour
Click the Picture & Find 10 Facts

25. Process Rubric
Circle
Appropriate
Number
Fair
Completed all
work on time
Good
Very
Good
Excellen
t
1
2
3
4
Worked
independently
1
2
3
4
Stayed on
task
1
2
3
4
Used
computer and
books as
resources
1
2
3
4

26. References
Career Cruising. (2006). Retrieved September 8, 2007, from
http://www.careercruising.com/
Teacher. (n.d.). Retrieved September 8, 2007, from U.S. Department of Labor Web
site: http://www.bls.gov/k12/help01.htm
Careers: Education and Training. (n.d.). Retrieved September 7, 2007, from
http://http://www.iseek.org/sv/12000.jsp?code=05
Careers in Healthcare Management. (2005). Retrieved September 8, 2007, from
http://http://www.healthmanagementcareers.org/execs.cfm
American Veterinary Medical Assoociation. (2007). Retrieved September 8, 2007,
from http://http://www.avma.org/default.asp
Game Warden / Wildlife Officer. (n.d.). Retrieved September 9, 2007, from
http://http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~envjobs/job18.html
National Animal Control Association. (2006). Retrieved September 9, 2007, from
http://http://www.nacanet.org/