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Career Exploration Through Experiential Learning - Design and Engineering

Sherry Franklin | Published: December 18th, 2025 by K20 Center

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This collection has all the resources you need to successfully implement the Career Exploration Through Experiential Learning - Design and Engineering Action Plan.

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Career Exploration: The Incredible Journey

In this activity, students participate in hands-on career exploration stations then reflect on their new knowledge about career possibilities. Read more »

Created by: Laura Halstied

Date Updated: December 16th, 2025

Educator Resource
Career Exploration: The Incredible Journey

Tag Target Audience

  • Students

Tag Calendar Placement

  • Any time of year

Tag Related

  • Individual Career Academic Plan (ICAP)

Tag ICAP (Individual Career Academic Planning)

  • College & Career Interest, Post-Secondary and Workforce Goals
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Time Frame
Lesson 5E Lesson
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Bio-Dome

Biology

Grade Level Grade Level

  • 9th - 10th

In this lesson, students will explore biotic and abiotic factors and the essential elements that are cycled throughout Earth’s many ecosystems. Students will determine how the cycling of these elements sustains life and then will create their own closed ecosystems. Read more »

Created by: Brittany Bowens

Date Updated: June 18th, 2025

Lesson 5E Lesson
Bio-Dome

Biology

Subject Subject

  • Science

Course Course

  • Biology

Grade Level Grade Level

  • 9th - 10th

Copied To Clipboard Standards

  • B.LS2.5 , IOD304, IOD403, SIN301, SIN401, SIN502, SIN702, EMI301, EMI502, EMI503, EMI603
More 3-4 class periods
Time Frame 195 minutes
Lesson 5E Lesson
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Clearly, This Is Art

Making Silk-Screen Prints Using Transparencies

Grade Level Grade Level

  • 9th - 12th

Students will use Wacom tablets to make monochrome images, burn them to transparency paper, and make some shirts and/or bags with them. Students also will watch ICAP interviews with a screen-printing business that prints its own materials and will then reflect on this as a career option. Read more »

Created by: James Doyle

Date Updated: May 30th, 2023

Lesson 5E Lesson
Clearly, This Is Art

Making Silk-Screen Prints Using Transparencies

Grade Level Grade Level

  • 9th - 12th

Subject Subject

  • Visual Arts

Course Course

  • Visual Arts

Copied To Clipboard Standards

  • VA.CP.2 , II.VA.CP.2.1 , VA.P.2 , I.VA.P.2.1
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Lesson 5E Lesson
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Transpiring Trees

Plant Transpiration and the Water Cycle

Grade Level Grade Level

  • 9th - 12th

Students will investigate the water cycle and how water flows through ecosystems. Students will use statistical analysis and mathematical reasoning to develop models that can determine the factors that contribute to a tree’s influence on matter and energy cycles within an ecosystem. Students will apply... Read more »

Created by: K20 Center

Date Updated: July 30th, 2025

Lesson 5E Lesson
Transpiring Trees

Plant Transpiration and the Water Cycle

Grade Level Grade Level

  • 9th - 12th

Subject Subject

  • Science

Course Course

  • Biology

Copied To Clipboard Standards

  • HS-LS2-5, B.LS2.2.5
More 275 minutes
Time Frame 5-10 class period(s)
Educator Resource
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Career Cafe

Career Cafe enables students to make real-world connections between their interests and professional career goals. Whether in a small or large setting, Career Cafes enable students to network with professionals in industries they might not otherwise have access to. As a facilitator of a Career Cafe,... Read more »

Created by: Will Markham

Date Updated: March 20th, 2025

Educator Resource
Career Cafe

Tag Target Audience

  • Students

Tag Calendar Placement

  • Any time of year

User Group Group Size

  • Large Group (at least 30), Medium Group (at least 10), Small Group, Small Group (at least 4), Whole Class

Tag Related

  • Individual Career Academic Plan (ICAP)

Tag Intention Or Purpose

  • Activate Prior Knowledge, Active Engagement, College-Going Culture

Tag ICAP (Individual Career Academic Planning)

  • College & Career Interest

Tag College & Career Readiness Framework

  • Choosing a Career, Benefits of Higher Education, Degrees, Professions, & Earnings
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Time Frame 60
Lesson 5E Lesson
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Clear as Phytoplankton: A Tale of Four Lakes

Nutrients, Genetics, and Plant Growth

Grade Level Grade Level

  • 6th - 8th

In this lesson, students investigate the phenomenon of differences in water clarity among four Oklahoma lakes. Students investigate how local environmental conditions and the survival strategies and growth of phytoplankton (algae) affect water clarity. Students then design and conduct experiments that... Read more »

Created by: Heather Shaffery

Date Updated: April 8th, 2025

Lesson 5E Lesson
Clear as Phytoplankton: A Tale of Four Lakes

Nutrients, Genetics, and Plant Growth

Tag Sponsor

  • National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grade Level Grade Level

  • 6th - 8th

Subject Subject

  • Science

Copied To Clipboard Standards

  • MS-LS1-5, 8.LS1.5 , 8.LS1.5.1, IOD403, SIN301, SIN503, EMI402
More 200 minutes
Time Frame 3-5 class period(s)

Standards

ACT College and Career Readiness Standards - Science (6-12)
IOD304: Determine how the values of variables change as the value of another variable changes in a simple data presentation
IOD403: Translate information into a table, graph, or diagram
SIN301: Understand the methods used in a simple experiment
SIN401: Understand a simple experimental design
SIN502: Predict the results of an additional trial or measurement in an experiment
SIN503: Determine the experimental conditions that would produce specified results
SIN702: Predict the effects of modifying the design or methods of an experiment
EMI301: Identify implications in a model
EMI402: Identify key assumptions in a model
EMI502: Determine whether presented information, or new information, supports or contradicts a simple hypothesis or conclusion, and why
EMI503: Identify the strengths and weaknesses of models
EMI603: Use new information to make a prediction based on a model
Next Generation Science Standards (Grades 6, 7, 8)
MS-LS1-5: Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how environmental and genetic factors influence the growth of organisms.
Next Generation Science Standards (Grades 9, 10, 11, 12)
HS-LS2-5: Develop a model to illustrate the role of photosynthesis and cellular respiration in the cycling of carbon among the biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere.
Oklahoma Academic Standards (8th Grade)
8.LS1.5 : Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how environmental and genetic factors influence the growth of organisms.
8.LS1.5.1: Genetic factors, as well as local conditions, affect the growth of the adult plant.
Oklahoma Academic Standards (Biology)
B.LS2.2.5: Extreme fluctuations in conditions or the size of any populations, however, can challenge the functions of ecosystems in terms of resources and habitat availability.
B.LS2.5 : Develop a model to illustrate the role of photosynthesis and cellular respiration in the cycling of carbon among the biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere.
Oklahoma Academic Standards (Fine Arts: Visual Art (High School: Advanced (II)))
VA.CP.2 : Practice and refine techniques and skills related to visual arts.
II.VA.CP.2.1 : Continue to experiment to demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
Oklahoma Academic Standards (Fine Arts: Visual Art (High School: Proficient (I)))
VA.P.2 : Use various media, supplies, and tools in an appropriate and safe manner in the creation of original visual artworks.
I.VA.P.2.1 : Explain how traditional and non-traditional materials used in art- making may impact human health and the environment. Demonstrate safe handling of materials, tools, and equipment.

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