Career + Communication Flex Menu

Choose the communication or career project that solves a real scheduling or classroom need.

How this module works: Choose the piece that fills a real gap in your calendar or classroom. Email Etiquette and Vision Board each stand alone. Career Fair is the full project route. You do not need to assign all three.

Three ways to use this module

Option 1 · Email Etiquette

1 to 2 periods.
Teach how a useful school email works, repair weak messages together, then have students draft or send one email for a real school need.

Option 2 · Vision Board

1 to 2 periods.
Students connect who they are now to one direction they want to explore. The privacy boundary is part of the lesson: students choose what they are comfortable sharing.

Extended option · Career Fair

7 to 10 periods, plus the Expo.
Students research one career, build a public information page, design a booth system, and explain the work to real visitors.

Option 1 · Email Etiquette

Students learn: how subject, greeting, context, request, tone, closing, and recipient checks make an email easier to answer.

Demonstration of learning: students repair four weak messages and write one useful email connected to an actual school need.

Whole-group route

Use slides 1 through 28 of the Lucero deck to teach the six parts, read the room, and model one repair.
Students complete the practice sheet. Stop after the first two repairs and compare what changed.
Decide whether students will send the final email or submit a draft. Do not make students send a message to a real person without naming the approved recipient first.

Deck note: Slides 29 through 31 contain the older favorite-activity assignment. Skip those slides and use the current Canvas task and practice sheet instead. Slide 32 is an optional final review.

Open teacher deck · Make a Google copy Practice PDF Editable DOCX · Make a Google copy

Watch for: a subject line that says only “Hello,” requests that cannot be answered, all-caps urgency, missing context, and students sending before checking the recipient or attachment.

Option 2 · Vision Board

Students learn: how words, images, color, and layout can make a connection between a present identity and a future direction visible.

Demonstration of learning: a paper or digital board with three words, three images, one present-to-future connection, and a short explanation of one choice.

Whole-group route

Play the short Lucero introduction and talk through one example of an image carrying meaning.
Students plan before collecting images. The brainstorm sheet prevents “random collage” from becoming the entire task.
Use paper, Google Slides, or Canva. Students leave out private contact information, passwords, and anything they do not want displayed.

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Extended option · Career Fair

The project has one audience and one job: help a visitor understand what a career is actually like and whether it may be worth exploring. The five steps are meant to stay together. If you remove a deliverable, revise the points and rubric before students begin.

1 · Choose

Shortlist three careers, use a fit check, and commit to one. 10 points.

2 · Research

Collect current evidence about tasks, work setting, training, pay, outlook, and one honest challenge. 10 points.

3 · Explain

Build one public information page that a visitor can understand without the presenter standing beside it. 10 points.

4 · Invite

Design a readable poster and matching take-away handout for the booth. 10 points.

5 · Present

Run the booth, give the pitch, answer questions, and participate as a visitor. 60 points.

Career Fair teacher guide

Setup before you publish

Email: test student email access and decide the approved recipient and send-or-draft rule.
Vision Board: choose paper or digital formats, test the video, and establish the privacy boundary before students collect images.
Career Fair: test Xello if you plan to use it, check Google Sites and Canva sharing, arrange printing, reserve booth space, and decide who the visitors will be.
Before using an integration: reconnect the Edpuzzle or Google activity in your course, then test it in Student View.

Additional options

To College or Not To College, Defining College and Career Readiness, and the older CCR survey are available as unpublished options. Use one when it fits your class. For the video activity, connect the public Edpuzzle lesson or play the original video without the integration.

Public Edpuzzle lesson Original video