WHO WILL WEAR THE HATS? WHO
WILL USE THE TOOLS?
Lesson 3
By: Susan C. White, M.Ed. and Gail Lawson, Ph.D.
See Also:
Introduction to this Lesson Series
Lesson One for Pre K-K
Lesson Two for Pre K-K
Lesson Four for Grades 5-7
STANDARD: All students will be able to identify career
areas that are nontraditional for their gender.
GRADE LEVEL: Elementary Grades 1-3, Guidance
OBJECTIVES:
- Students will recognize that there are many different jobs available in our society.
- Student will be introduced to the concept that all people can, based upon an
individual’s natural abilities and interests, select any job regardless of gender.
- Children are positively reinforced for recognizing and naming various occupational
areas.
- Teachers will introduce and reinforce the concept that anyone can do any job.
TIME: Two class periods, 30 to 60 minutes.
MATERIALS: Hats, uniforms pieces, and props from a variety of
vocational and leisure areas. Flip chart paper, pictures/photos of hats, uniforms pieces
and props mounted on flip chart paper (down left side), crayons, colored pencils, paper
for children to use for drawing, tape or "post-it glue" for mounting photos of
props.
PROCEDURES:
- Teacher and counselor introduces the concept of job and vocation by modeling hats and
uniform pieces associated with a variety of vocational areas. While modeling the
hat/uniform piece, the teacher asks, "Who am I?" The teacher/counselor leads the
children in identifying jobs and vocations. The teacher accepts and records all student
responses on the prepared flip chart.
A variation in the procedure is to have the children, after identifying the
item, match it to the picture, and have the child mount the picture on the flip chart
paper. The Counselor/Teacher then labels the job/vocation next to the picture.
- The Teacher/CounseIor leads students in a discussion of each of the jobs and vocations.
- Children will draw a picture of themselves filling in one of the occupational areas
identified. Utilizing process writing methods, each child will write a story about their
occupational choice.
- As the Teacher/Counselor moves around the room working with the children, additional
interactions about the jobs can be achieved.
- Each story and drawing will be put in the child’s portfolio. (See Introduction)
EVALUATION:
- Teacher/counselor will assess, by observation, if all children have used at least one
hat and uniform piece.
- Teacher/Counselor will observe, through interactions with the children, if children have
answered the question "Who am I?"
- Teacher will assess if children have selected props associated with activities
considered non-traditional for their gender, and be positive in their interactions about
children’s selections.
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