# Slides 2.21: The 16 Career Clusters and My Top Three

Lesson 2.21, Unit 2. One period. Eleven slides. The trading window (Step 1) runs on the ClassroomStreet screen; switch to the deck after the reset cue.

## Slide 1: Do now

- Write three jobs you saw a real person doing this week.
- Not on TV. Not on a screen.
- The bus driver counts. So does the person who made your sandwich.
- Three minutes.

Notes: Collect ten jobs on the board fast. They become the practice sort on Slide 4.

## Slide 2: Trading window

- ClassroomStreet is open. Ten minutes.
- Read the dispatch. Buy, sell, or hold.
- Write the Round 2, Day 2 line in your Investor Journal.
- The window closes at the reset cue.

Notes: Round 2, windows 48 to 54. Keep the posters out of it; they wait.

## Slide 3: What a cluster is

- A career cluster is a group of jobs that share skills, knowledge, and a work setting.
- There are thousands of jobs. There are 16 clusters.
- You do not have to pick a job at thirteen.
- You have to know which three clusters are worth a closer look.

Image: sixteen boxes in a four by four grid, each with a small icon.

## Slide 4: The sixteen

- 1 Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources. 2 Architecture and Construction. 3 Arts, A/V Technology and Communications. 4 Business Management and Administration.
- 5 Education and Training. 6 Finance. 7 Government and Public Administration. 8 Health Science.
- 9 Hospitality and Tourism. 10 Human Services. 11 Information Technology. 12 Law, Public Safety, Corrections and Security.
- 13 Manufacturing. 14 Marketing. 15 Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. 16 Transportation, Distribution and Logistics.

Notes: Sort three do now jobs with the class: bus driver is 16, sandwich maker is 9, school nurse is 8. Ask the veterinarian question here or save it for the walk: a veterinarian is 1, not 8.

## Slide 5: Eight of them start in this room

- Hospitality and Tourism. Human Services. Education and Training. Health Science.
- Business Management and Administration. Marketing. Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources. Arts, A/V Technology and Communications.
- Those eight posters are on a different color.
- Every unit this year touches at least one of them.

Notes: Do not announce this slide before the walk if you would rather a student notice the colors first. Show it in the debrief instead.

## Slide 6: Read the letters

- Your Lesson 2.2 interest quiz gave you two letters, from R, I, A, S, E, C.
- Each poster says which letters often fit that cluster.
- Both your letters match: lean Yes. One matches: Maybe. None: No, unless you have a real reason.
- The letters are a guide, not a rule.

Image: the six letters with a one-word meaning under each: R builds, I studies, A creates, S helps, E leads, C organizes.

## Slide 7: The cluster walk rules

- Groups of four. Start at the poster I give you.
- Rotate on the cue every 35 seconds. Sixteen posters in ten minutes.
- At each poster: read the name and the three jobs; compare the letters to your two letters; mark Yes, Maybe, or No; write a two-word reason.
- Whisper. Do not skip a poster because it is far away.

Notes: Use the reset cue once at the halfway point on purpose. Circulate with the clipboard.

## Slide 8: Timer

- 35 seconds per poster.
- Cue means move.
- Ten minutes total.

Image: a large countdown timer.

## Slide 9: Choose your top three

- From your Yes column, pick three.
- For each, one sentence that names an interest, a strength, or a quiz letter from Topic 2.1.
- Sentence starter: "I chose ___ because I like ___."
- Circle any of your three that are FACS-related.

Notes: Fewer than three Yes marks: promote a Maybe and say why. Every poster Yes: "Which of these would you not want to do on a Monday morning?"

## Slide 10: Pair share

- Read your top three and one reason.
- Your partner names one job from a poster that fits your number one.
- Write it under your number one.
- Three minutes.

## Slide 11: Exit card

- My top three clusters.
- One job from a poster I did not know existed.
- One cluster my quiz pointed to that I marked No, and why.
- Three people read line two aloud.

Notes: "Needs more" is three clusters with no reasons or fewer than three. Those students start tomorrow's research card with a conference at the desk. Tell the class: tomorrow is the research card, the last trading window, and the Unit 2 Test (20 items, 15 minutes, all five topics).