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2017 NAIAS Education Day

Lesson Plans Overview

The lesson plans provided were designed to prepare students for the career education aspect of NAIAS Education Day: A World of Opportunities. The purpose of 2017NAIAS Education Day is for students to identify career opportunities by interviewingexpertsin their fields of interest. The job/career emphasis will be on the critical jobs/careers of the future, the emerging sector jobs/careers, and the current jobs/careers needs within the next five years.

Each of the five lesson plans have an identified purpose, materials needed to teach the lesson, lesson segments, team size and composition, assessment component, and the actual assignment.

Three sets of lesson plans have been developed to prepare the students for attending2017 NAIAS Education Day and to successfully obtain information that will be helpful in their career quest.

  • Pre-Event Lesson Plan One is to help the students understand the importance the Auto Show is to Metro Detroit and to the auto industry. It also starts the sampling of careers in the automotive industry.
  • Pre-Event Lesson Plan Two has the students reviewing the Student Investigation Sheet and then using Career Cruising in the practice of its use. It allows them to be ready to ask the necessary career questions of the industry expert.
  • Pre-Event Lesson Plan Three readies the students for the actual attendance of the event. It allows the instructional staff to assure that the students know of the transportation aspects, timing of the event experiences, and supplies that the students will need to gather information.

Two lesson plans have been developed to assist the students in processing the information they obtain, sharing with fellow students the information they obtain, and putting the information obtained into their portfolios.

  • Post-Event Lesson Plan One allows the students to process, share, and create a permanent record of their experiences at the event.
  • Post-Event Lesson Plan Two has the students sharing the career information they learned.

If the students are in the same class, the lesson plans, with adjustment, will lend themselves into your school’s class schedule time periods. The following lesson plan calendar is suggested:

Thursday, January 12 - Pre-Event Lesson Plan One: What’s It All About?

Friday, January 13 – Pre-Event Lesson Plan Two: Career Investigation

Monday, January 16 - Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday Observed

Tuesday, January 17– Pre-Event Lesson Plan Three: What’s

Happening?

Wednesday, January 18– NAIAS Education Day

Thursday, January 19– Post-Event Lesson Plan One: What Just

Happened?

Friday, January 20 - Continuation of Post-Event Lesson Plan One

Monday, January 23 – Post-Event Lesson Plan Two: This Is What We

Learned

If the students are not in the same class, the elements and purpose of the various lesson plans can be cut and pasted into the times that you have with the students.

While it is hoped that the students experience the Pre and Post lesson plans, it is recognized that you may have similar-purposed lesson plans that you designed. Please feel free to use them.

Remember, there will be many post-secondary institutions on the show floor. Encourage your students to visit them. There is a section on the Student Investigation Sheet that is devoted to the post-secondary.