Career Capture
A Hacker Busters Lesson
Boys Only!
Lesson Contents:
 Teacher Summary
Objectives
ISTE NETS
Preparations for the Lesson
Lesson Directions
Additional Resources
Assessment
Teacher Summary:
This lesson is designed for the boys in your class. It features helping boys learn about and consider careers in IT and engineering. During the lesson, your boys will learn about the greatest engineering achievements of the 20th century and will brainstorm ideas for the future of IT.
The lesson will take about two 50-minute periods, the same as the girls' lesson. While the girls' lesson will require more of your time as a teacher, the boys' lesson can be completed mostly through independent study.
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Objectives:
- To introduce information on engineering achievements.
- To encourage boys to take courses in math and technology in middle and high school so that they'll be ready for more challenging courses in college.
- To encourage an interest in IT and engineering careers.
- To encourage critical and creative thinking.
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Preparations for the Lesson:
Your students will need to be able to go online to find information about engineering achievements.
The lesson works best with students working on their own or with partners. You'll need to decide what will be best because you may be spending most of your time working with the girls on their lesson.
Because you will probably have two different lessons going at the same time, it would be helpful to have a parent, an aide, a school administrator, or guidance counselor take one of the groups. The boys' lesson, however, has been written so that it can be completed by the boys on their own.
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Lesson Directions:
Period 1:
For the introduction to the lessons for both the girls and the boys, if you do not have someone to assist you with one of the groups, you can do the introduction with both your boys and girls.
Introduction:
Discuss with your students what they want to be in the future. What careers do they think would be interesting and appropriate for them? Find out if they've thought about their own skills, interests, and talents and how these might help them decide upon and succeed in a career.
Introduce IT and engineering careers by asking them what they think Information Technology specialists and engineers actually do. Have them write their ideas on the chalkboard, whiteboard, or poster board, or perhaps type them into a computer and project them on the classroom wall or screen. Ask them what fields of interest they think would employ engineers and IT specialists. Would they be found in fields such as architecture, medicine, and music, for example? Let them brainstorm ideas.
The Lesson:
Send your boys to the site The Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century. On their own or with a partner, give them time to survey the "Greatest Achievements".
Have them complete the Greatest Achievements Guide Sheet while they are browsing the site. Ask them to download the sheet to their computers and complete it on their computers without printing it. Remind them to save their work.
While the girls are working on their lesson or while someone else is working with the girls, bring your boys together to discuss the information covered on the guidesheet. Use any additional time you have to talk with them about possible careers in IT and engineering.
Tell the boys that in the next lesson they'll be tackling IT and engineering of the future.
Period 2:
Review with the boys or with the girls and boys information learned about IT and engineering careers. Let them tell you reasons why people would enjoy these careers. Find out if they were surprised to learn how many different types of careers could be considered IT and engineering.
Give your boys today's assignment sheet ( DOC - 28KB) and explain that you want them to work in groups using their imaginations to come up with what will be the greatest achievements of the 21st century.
Assign groups and have the boys get to work.
How you bring this lesson to a close will depend upon whether someone else has been available to work with either the boys' or girls' groups in your class. The girls will need to discuss the questions at the end of their lesson, and the boys should discuss ideas for the future. The discussions can be combined if necessary with both the boys and girls adding to the integrated discussion.
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Additional Resources:
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Assessment:
Assessment of individual and group work and class discussion:
You will want to assess the boys not only on how well they complete the Guide Sheet and Assignment Sheet, but also on they work individually and in their group and how they participate in the discussion.
Rating the boys on these subjective areas might go something like this:
Rate each 1-10 with 10 being the highest
- Worked well independently
- Completed independent assignments on time
- Demonstrated a cooperative spirit during group work
- Took an interest in lesson content
- Was an active participant during group work
- Understood how to find the answers to the questions on the Guide Sheet and the Assignment Sheet
- Appeared to understand the content during discussions
- Volunteered information during the discussions
- Supported the ideas of others
- Used technologies safely and efficiently
A perfect rating would be 100%.
Guide Sheet and Assignment Sheet Assessment:
There are ten questions on the Guide Sheet, which you might rate on a scale of 1-10, for a perfect score of 100%.
On the Assignment sheet, there are eight achievements to title and explain. Give up to 10 points for each achievement, for a total of 80 points. Give up to twenty points for the explanation of which achievement a student would like to make possible. This would total 100% for a perfect score on the sheet.
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