# Slides 2.22: Education Roadmap and Career Research Card, and the Unit 2 Test

Lesson 2.22, Unit 2. One period. Ten slides. Order is fixed: careers, then the final trading window, then the test.

## Slide 1: Do now

- What do you have to do after high school to become (a) a nurse, (b) an electrician, (c) a teacher?
- Your best guess for each. One line each.
- Two minutes.

Notes: Hands up for "college for all three." The gap between the guess and Slide 2 is the lesson.

## Slide 2: Six paths after high school

- A job with on-the-job training: days to months; the employer pays you while you learn.
- Apprenticeship: 3 to 5 years; paid to learn; little or no tuition.
- Certificate program: weeks to about a year; the cheapest school.
- Two-year degree (associate): 2 years; community college.
- Four-year degree (bachelor's): 4 years; the most expensive path; often loans.
- Military: 4 to 8 years of service; paid and trained; college help after.

Image: six icons in a row: a name tag, a tool belt, a certificate, a calendar with a 2, a calendar with a 4, a uniform.

Notes: Fill the Part 1 table on the handout as you go. One sentence and one job per path.

## Slide 3: The do now, answered

- Nurse: a two-year or four-year degree, plus a state license.
- Electrician: an apprenticeship. Paid from the first summer after graduation. No loans.
- Teacher: a four-year degree, plus a state certificate.
- The rule: more school is not automatically better or worse. It is a trade of years and money for the job you want.

Notes: "That is a decision. You have a model for decisions: name the choice, list options, weigh each against what matters, decide, look back."

## Slide 4: The research card

- Pick one career from one of your top three clusters. Write the cluster number.
- Open the career resource: [Sal: name it]
- Fill every field: three tasks, the path, pay range with the year of the source, a day in the life, the source, the verdict.
- No year on the pay range, no points.

Notes: Walk the worked example (Devon, dental hygienist) on the handout once. The field students skip is "a day in the life." It is the field that changes minds.

## Slide 5: The verdict

- Does this career fit my top three? My two letters? My values?
- Circle Yes, Partly, or No.
- One reason for. One reason against.
- Finish at home if you need to. Due tomorrow.

Image: a two-column card with "For" and "Against" headings.

Notes: Eight minutes total for Slides 4 and 5. Two-column clipboard check: chose from the top three; found the path on the source, not guessed.

## Slide 6: Final trading window

- ClassroomStreet is open for the last time. Round 2, windows 55 to 60. Ten minutes.
- Read the final dispatch. Buy, sell, or hold.
- Write the Round 2, Day 3 line in your Investor Journal.
- At the reset cue, the leaderboard freezes. Round 2 standings go up tomorrow.

Notes: Say nothing else about standings today. Close devices; clear desks for the test.

## Slide 7: Before the test, one review

- [Sal: three lines on the class's weakest topic from the four checks; for most classes it is return math]
- Return in AQ = what you got back minus what you paid.
- Return as a percent = return divided by what you paid, times 100.
- 30 seconds, then the test.

Notes: This is not a full review. The last three do nows were the review.

## Slide 8: Unit 2 Test directions

- 20 items. 15 minutes. All five topics.
- Calculator for item 16 only.
- Show your work on item 16.
- Not sure? Write what you think and why.

Image: a large 15-minute countdown timer.

## Slide 9: Timer

- 15:00

Image: the countdown, full screen.

## Slide 10: Closure

- Pass the test forward.
- On a sticky note on your research card: "The thing from this unit I will use first is ___."
- Research cards not finished are due tomorrow at the start of class.
- Tomorrow: Round 2 standings, a few journal lines read aloud, and Unit 3 begins.

Notes: One minute. Read two sticky notes aloud tomorrow with the standings.