Teaching Resources
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World of Work Lesson Materials
Looking for lesson plans and teaching resources to use in your Careers lessons? Here you’ll find a range of resources aligned with the Australian Curriculum, and designed to help you teach students about the World of Work.
Whether you’re teaching dedicated Career Lessons, or just looking for resources to embed in other subject lessons as part of the Cross Curriculum Priorities, you’ll find what you need here.
Teaching Resources
What’s the difference between a career, a job, and work?
Welcome to the first in our National Careers Week series – the theme for 2021 is “Career. More than just a job” and we’ve taken …
National Careers Week Information Sheets
National Careers Week have developed some great resources you can provide to students. They have created a variety of information sheets on different sections of …
Career Worksheet – World of Work Activities
These worksheets could help your students think about all of the different types of places that people work. They’ll need to think about the range …
Know Your Rights at Work
Keen to start your first job? Before you dive right in, there are some important things you should know first. The ACTU’s Worksite is packed …
Career Worksheet – Balance Activities
These worksheets are designed to get your students thinking about how they balance their priorities. They’ll be asked to think about the things that are …
FYA Worlds of Work
FYA’s Worlds of Work (WOW) is a free national initiative that equips young people with the enterprise skills and careers management skills to be prepared …
Busting Work Myths
The working world is changing quickly, really quickly, and even though we spend a huge chunk of our lives working there are still many misconceptions …
Career Worksheet – A Work Day
This worksheet is designed to get your students thinking about what a real workday is like. They’ll draw on their own experiences of watching people …
Career Lesson Writing Activities
We’ve put together a range of writing prompt worksheets for you to use with students in class. Use them to start a discussion amongst students, …
Careers in Maths
A career in maths doesn’t just have to mean sitting at a desk crunching numbers. Maths is involved in almost every job out there in …
13 More Unusual Jobs you might not know exist
Some of the careers in this blog might lean more towards a bit weird more than just unusual. You never know what’s going to strike …
What it’s really like to be an Engineer
Are you thinking of studying engineering at university? Wonder what a day in the life of an engineer is really like? Deakin graduate and mechanical …
