JAG

Students will be exposed to the importance of making healthy eating choices and habits in their lives and the role that it plays in their overall personal health.
There are many obstacles and challenges that can be encountered when incorporating healthy eating habits into one�s daily life and routine. These obstacles include such things as budgetary challenges, availability of healthy choices, education and comfort with incorporating them into one�s own life, and peer pressures to name a few.
The purpose of this project is to raise awareness and comfort levels for students with healthy eating and how it can make an impact in their own life and those around them.

Students will learn about food systems and how they operate globally and locally. They will become familiar with the complexity
of systems and players that bring raw materials to our plates and the inequalities that these systems create or expose. They will
choose an issue and investigate it, becoming experts and developing a local service project that will seek to ameliorate a food-
related challenge in the community, while also learning about different careers in agriculture, food services, and food policy.

This lesson will include the following: acquiring, completing, and submitting a job application, preparing for and participating in a job interview, completing a career interest inventory, and creating a career vision portfolio. Students will learn the skills needed to apply for and obtain a job, and will explore their career interests to ensure they can envision a future career path. The benefit to this project is building passion in students for their future careers, and ensuring they are aware of the path needed to get there.

Over 50 students from two local high schools took part in a weeks-long career exploration project that included researching and discovering career pathways that best suit the student's� desired occupational interests. After completing career surveys and determining a path, students researched their job (salaries, job requirements, education requirements, etc.) and lined up a professional job shadow. While on their job shadow, students conducted interviews with a professional in their field of interest to further gather an understanding of what it takes to start and excel in that career. The project concluded with a twist on the traditional �career fair,� where instead of colleges and businesses presenting, the students created tri-fold posters based on their research and experience, dressed professionally, and presented to the businesses they shadowed, other school and community members, and family and friends. By the end of the project, students had done an incredible amount of research on the career of their choice, had first-hand experience in the workplace, and polished their presentation skills as they spoke with many local business and educational leaders.

Students will create a portfolio that can allow them to show off all of their skills and accomplishments that make them employable. They will compile a binder with all of their documents to present when they are going through an interview process. Students will also have an opportunity to participate in a mock interview. They will then be able to get in groups and create a multimedia presentation of a top 10 list of do�s and don�ts of resume writing, cover letters, filling out an application, professional dress attire, etc.

This project will allow students to experience how a business works within while working as a team. Students will work as a team to create a newspaper that they can share with their fellow peers and school community. A lead editor will be chosen and the rest of the class we serve as journalist. Which will require the journalist to meet deadlines and report to the lead editor to ensure the completion of the newspaper by the date set?

The students will be planning and implementing a Veterans Day Breakfast & Ceremony to be held on a school day prior to the Veterans Day Observance. Students will work in classes and on committees to create a menu, develop the budget, develop a program for the ceremony, invite guest speakers, and begin advertising & seeking donations from local businesses.
Purpose-The purpose of this event is to provide free breakfast and student-led ceremony to show our local veterans and their family members the utmost respect they deserve for their sacrifice and service.

Students will research a career of interest using online and �live� resources (e.g. job shadow, informational interview) and reflect on it to determine if that career is a fit for them based on their interests, skills/abilities, aptitudes, and personality. Through this project, students will complete the Holland Code Interest Inventory, Myers-Briggs, utilize online resources (e.g O-Net, Occupational Outlook Handbook, Career One Stop), and complete a job shadow and/or multiple informational interviews.Students will also explore one career cluster using the career map packets developed by JMG.