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On this site you will find...

  • Excellent curriculum for integrating career and vocational topics into a variety of academic subjects or vice versa.
  • Engaging, ready-to-use high school class projects that are tied to California State Standards.
  • Detailed lesson plans that have been developed by high school teachers and tested with high school students.

Download the free lesson plans and ancillary materials and adapt them for use in your classroom.

Classroom Project Lesson Plans

Deals On Wheels - In this project, students will learn about budgets, car purchasing, and using credit. They will calculate monthly car payments including tax and license fees, vehicle trade-in and down payments.

For the entire Deals on Wheels project (20 pages) in .pdf format.

Ethics - This lesson on ethics is intended to provide a practical examination of ethics as it applies to students in their last years of high school moving on into careers, using role playing and discussions.

For the entire Ethics project (16 pages) in .pdf format.

Get A Life - Students will assess their personality type to help determine if they are suited for a career in finance or business, also includes lessons on resumes, cover letters, job applications, and letters of recommendation.

For the entire Get A Life project (38 pages) in .pdf format.

House of Cards - Students examine credit and how it may affect them and their future, pitfalls of using credit and the cost of using credit.

For the entire House of Cards project (33 pages) in .pdf format. An Excel file is also needed for this project.

Sell It on the Web - Students will examine the world of advertising on the web as well as the business of sales.

For the entire Sell It on the Web project (20 pages) in .pdf format.

Travel Brochure - Students will demonstrate their Internet research and persuasive writing skills to create colorful, informative travel brochures to popular vacation destinations.

For the entire Travel Brochure project (20 pages) in .pdf format.

Your American Dream - Using the play Death of a Salesman as the vehicle for discussion, this project explores and examines entrepreneurship versus employment - working for yourself as opposed to working for someone else.

For the entire American Dream project (9 pages) in .pdf format.



Sierra Community College , with state funding, worked with high school teachers in a year long project to create and test these high quality lesson plans. The objective was to provide high quality, ready-to-use lessons that integrated vocational and academic standards, concepts and curriculum.

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