Lenses on the Future Digital Lessons

Lenses on the Future Virtual Lessons Unit Overview as well as Instructions for using SCORM files with Canvas and Blackboard and the list of external links to be whitelisted by lesson for this collection.

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The Lenses on the Future unit helps students chart a path to future success by identifying personal interests and strengths, researching college and career opportunities, and considering potential ways to contribute to society. In the Self: The Me I Choose lesson, students choose lenses to identify the components of their personal identity.

NOTE: If you use Google Classroom or another LMS that does not support SCORM, please access the digital lesson for the students through the link provided directly here: https://rise.articulate.com/share/uURxEn9ISdGpD3EUP52H4IK8ipldq8IN

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In the Self: My Strengths My Talents lesson, students will use their Self Lens to identify their strengths and discover ways to use their talents in academic and professional settings. Students will take a free online personality test to identify their strengths. The test is called the NERIS Type Explorer, which is based on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment tool. Finally, the students will reflect on how they can use their strengths and talents to help achieve their goals.

NOTE: If you use Google Classroom or another LMS that does not support SCORM, please access the digital lesson for the students through the link provided directly here:  https://rise.articulate.com/share/6vgdPpTnbloh3d-5ZFAA5HC4t99kiPD9

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In the lesson Self: Connecting Careers, the students identify their sparks and recognize how their unique talents can align to careers. Using the framework of career clusters, the students will explore many different careers and think about how their specific strengths may be applied to various industries.

NOTE: If you use Google Classroom or another LMS that does not support SCORM, please access the digital lesson for the students through the link provided directly here:  https://rise.articulate.com/share/-EAPfEMjQwxJGU4pbuLsOiuvqJugQ2Uc

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In the Self: Six-Word Statements lesson, the students will explore the six-word statement, which boils one’s life—or part of it—down to six words. The students will explore several examples in a Gallery Walk and reflect on their effectiveness. The students will also write three versions of their own six-word statement by thinking of the impression they want to leave with their readers or the story they want to tell. Finally, the students will share their six-word statement with their peers.

NOTE: If you use Google Classroom or another LMS that does not support SCORM, please access the digital lesson for the students through the link provided directly here:  https://rise.articulate.com/share/Ea8s7_n68YJPxcrBO1q8xbQRpBmtVnAd

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In the Security: Future Ready Pathways lesson, students will explore different future pathways and will consider both their own and others’ opinions regarding higher education. Students will also activate their knowledge on the future of work through a true or false activity. Finally, students will take a career exploration survey and consider other ways to learn more about their career interests.

NOTE: If you use Google Classroom or another LMS that does not support SCORM, please access the digital lesson for the students through the link provided directly here: https://rise.articulate.com/share/AUcuXDWefUd73_AmG8C-Atx5n3U0-c8Q

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In this Security Lenses lesson: Job, Job, Career, the students will explore the difference between jobs and careers. A quick opening activity will help the students to assess their current understandings about the world of work. The students will then analyze a Mystery Text, reflecting on the implication of the opinion piece, as well as to infer a possible theme. Finally, the students will complete a reflection in which they will agree and disagree with various ideas in relation to the theme, before reflecting on the conceptual difference between jobs and careers.

NOTE: If you use Google Classroom or another LMS that does not support SCORM, please access the digital lesson for the students through the link provided directly here:  https://rise.articulate.com/share/NZ-D4gHW2t5ZrM-TyF3YGsJFy5pMiNQ3

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The Security Lenses: Keeping It Real lesson begins with some mystery data for the students to explore. Then, the students will participate in a simulation that will allow them to select a job, housing, transportation, and leisure items. Then the students will be asked to calculate the cost of their choices and see if they can afford the lifestyle they choose.

NOTE: If you use Google Classroom or another LMS that does not support SCORM, please access the digital lesson for the students through the link provided directly here: https://rise.articulate.com/share/ZO4fB3NLxenGxi7XWcYMHOPDZ3lJyzr6

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In this Security Lenses lesson the students will explore the Holland Code personality types and the careers associated with them. The students will weigh different career interests by taking a photo career quiz and a Holland Code career evaluation. The students will then evaluate their possible careers options based on the results of the quizzes and their personal interests. Finally, the students will reflect on their reactions to the Holland Code test outcomes.

NOTE: If you use Google Classroom or another LMS that does not support SCORM, please access the digital lesson for the students through the link provided directly here:  https://rise.articulate.com/share/AzkVZTzYQhxcV6eAz-JnGyJ_kQM6LKDv 

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In the lesson Society: My Personal Brand, students evaluate their brand: How others perceive them and how they want to be perceived. Students determine how to use their story or reputation to open the doors of opportunity and build their brand.

NOTE: If you use Google Classroom or another LMS that does not support SCORM, please access the digital lesson for the students through the link provided directly here:  https://rise.articulate.com/share/_qKFIB9SSioyylgTPk2XoIGeI9st1w_K

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In this lesson, students will explore values and come up with characteristics of values.

NOTE: If you use Google Classroom or another LMS that does not support SCORM, please access the digital lesson for the students through the link provided directly here: https://rise.articulate.com/share/K39YGOYS-W1KBZ67H4yM6nGiSoUvHnAZ

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The Society: Finding Contribution lesson uses the society lens and introduces the students, through a Gallery Walk, to a number of people who have contributed to their communities in different ways. The students will give some thought to how they can do the same by taking action on their own values.

NOTE: If you use Google Classroom or another LMS that does not support SCORM, please access the digital lesson for the students through the link provided directly here: https://rise.articulate.com/share/UNbwM0d77ks9irTXVYEGpkAvg4AAeDJS

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In this last lesson of this Lenses on the Future unit, the students will take some time to reflect on key activities or discoveries that they made about themselves, their community, and their happiness.

NOTE: If you use Google Classroom or another LMS that does not support SCORM, please access the digital lesson for the students through the link provided directly here:  https://rise.articulate.com/share/zEhIun9i7_Vh4KiuA4VMzQir6AV4GYKZ

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Overview: Use the Take a Stand Template to create your own “Take a Stand” activity for any career that is relevant to your unique students.

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