Succeeding in Life and Career   Item #: GW7171   Interest Level: Gr. 6–10   Reading Level: Gr. 5–6   Components: Textbook, Workbook, Teacher Resources and Assessments Sale Price: $85.49 « Back to product page

Help teens adjust to change, achieve career readiness, and fulfill their potential.

The 21st century challenges pose unique demands on young people learning to manage their lives and prepare for successful futures, and the text addresses these challenges. It encourages students to hone critical-thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills and apply them to situations in the real world. Succeeding in Life and Career also helps teens acquire relationship, resource management, and healthy living skills.

• Unit One is devoted solely to career preparation, employability skills, teamwork, leadership, and entrepreneurship.
• Eight Career Discovery two-page spreads explore the 16 career clusters. They identify popular career choices as well as the education, training, skills, and personal qualities needed for success in those fields.
• The nutrition information reflects USDA's My Plate food guidance system, and the information on lifespan development covers all age categories.
• Engaging features appear throughout to help students develop life and work skills, healthy lifestyle and wellness choices, a commitment to community service, financial literacy, and knowledge of sustainable living.
• Chapter activities encourage students to explore text concepts further through co curricular and technology challenges, FCCLA participation, portfolio development, and journal writing.
• Hundreds of special features, experiments, color photographs, illustrations, tables, and charts expand key concepts and make learning interesting and fun.

Workbook: Designed to help students review content, apply knowledge, and develop critical-thinking skills. A wide variety of activities are provided for various learning styles. This supplement is a consumable resource, designed with perforated pages so that a given chapter can be removed and turned in for grading or checking.

Teachers Edition: Presents a variety of instructional strategies in the margins of each page that are intended to guide you in reviewing and reinforcing the chapter content. Related Web sites are often cited along with technology applications and cross-curricular ideas. It also provides discussion topics, enrichment activities, assessment techniques, and correlations to the National Family and Consumer Sciences Standards.

The Teacher's Resource CD contains the following items:

• Teacher's Edition: A Portable Document Format (PDF) version of the Teacher's Edition, with bookmarks and search capabilities
• Teacher's Resources: Provides numerous instructional resources that support each chapter of the textbook including bulletin board ideas, introductory activities, suggested teaching strategies, test masters, answer keys, reproducible masters, transparency masters, and much more. All of the resources for teaching each chapter are conveniently grouped together in this PDF version, allowing you to view and print pages from your computer
• Lesson Plans: Customized daily lesson plans in Microsoft® Word - quickly prepare with our new easy-to-edit format
• Lesson Slides: Provided as PowerPoint® slide shows (PPS) and listed by chapter
• Answer Keys: The Chapter and Section Answer Keys for the Teacher's Resources in a PDF format, for quick and easy access
• Related Web Links: Direct Internet links provided for numerous content-related websites

Teacher's Presentations for PowerPoint This CD package contains presentations in PowerPoint format for each of the 24 chapters comprising over 2400 slides of instructional material.

System Requirements:

Windows®: Intel® Pentium® II or compatible processor, Windows® 2000/XP/7, 128 MB RAM (256 MB RAM recommended), Internet Explorer® (6 or higher), PowerPoint® Viewer (free download), Adobe® Reader® and Flash® Player(free downloads).

Macintosh®: PowerPC® G4, G5 or Intel® processor, Mac OS® X v10.4, 128 MB RAM (256 MB RAM recommended), Safari® (2.0 or higher), PowerPoint® Viewer(free download), Adobe® Reader® and Flash® Player (free downloads).