Creating your own worksheets to investigate work
Lesson
To enable staff to create a variety of student resources based on the information in JED.
Context
The text in JED covers over 800 different job titles and is a comprehensive resource of information about occupations. Rather than simply allowing students to browse the material it is sometimes useful to provide a structured activity to enable the students to find specific information. This could relate to their own career ideas or could be related to a topic being studied.
Learning outcomes
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Level
Staff with basic ICT skills can develop these resources.
Resources
JED, any standard word processing/DTP program that is familiar and a printer.
Contribution to National Framework
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Starter
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Main
- Run JED and open a job record that you want the students to investigate eg children's nurse.
- Display the Job Description page, highlight the text and using Copy on the Edit menu, copy it to the clipboard.
- Now minimize JED, and open your word processing or DTP package, create a new file and paste the text in.
- The text can then be altered to create an exercise for students, as in the example in the pdf download.
NOTE that you can now easily copy the pictures onto worksheets as well, by using a right mouse-click on a picture and using the Copy item on the menu displayed.
Please note that the text and pictures in Jed are subject to copyright. Your Jed licence allows you to use the text and pictures in Jed to create displays and worksheets in this way.
Plenary
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Extension Activity
Using this technique, any number of resources can be produced, some of which may be grouped according to a particular theme e.g. work with children, professional careers in the construction industry or careers using Geography.
Page date 14/02/08