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Title:
| Career Cluster: Architecture and Construction |
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Description:
| Find out what careers are included in the architecture and construction career cluster. Learn about the careers, what kind of training they require, and what the working conditions are for architects and construction workers. Includes links to eThemes on career exploration, career interest assessments, and architecture. |
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Grade Level:
| 6, 7, 8, 9 |
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Resource Links:
| Careers in Architecture and Construction
This one-page PDF file includes a list of all the different occupations available in the career cluster.
Focusing Education on the Future
This seven-page PDF file includes an overview of the career paths within architecture and construction. Includes information about education needed and employment outlook.
Architecture and Construction
Read an overview of this career cluster and find out about the different career paths. Includes a link to print and Internet resources on architecture.
Architecture and Construction Career Cluster
Page 2 of this 16-page PDF file includes a chart about careers in architecture and construction. Find out how much they pay and about the employment growth rate.
Click on Careers: Construction
Take the "Career Assessment" to find out what construction-related career would suit you. Explore the links to see descriptions of different careers.
U.S. Department of Labor: Construction
The United States Department of Labor website includes information about careers in construction. Includes an overview of working conditions, job advancement, salary, and more.
Building and Fixing Things
Click on "Carpenter," "Drafter," "Architect," "Civil Engineer," or "Electrician" to find out what people in these careers do.
PBS: Who Builds Big?
Read interviews with architects, civil engineers, and others in the architecture and construction industry.
U.S. Department of Labor: Architect
Find out about the working conditions, career outlook, and training of an architect.
Electrical Engineer
Find out what an electrical engineer does and how you can become one.
Engineering Technician
Learn what it is like to be an engineering technician.
Architecture Careers Overview
Read about what an architect does and how you can become one.
Be a Landscape Architect
Read this seven-page PDF file to see if landscape architecture is the career for you.
eThemes Resource: Careers: Exploration
This site contains information about careers. Students can explore different positions in fields such as medicine, military, architecture, and television. Learn about different jobs, the required skills, training, potential pay, and working conditions. Includes information about making a career plan. An eMINTS WebQuest on careers is linked. There are links to eThemes resources on job hunting and interest assesments.
eThemes Resource: Careers: Inventory and Interest Assessments
These sites contain online inventory and interest assessments. These assessments can help to create students' profiles, identify skills, abilities, specific interests, and help to find a right career. There are eThemes resources on career exploration and job hunting.
eThemes Resource: Architecture
Learn about architecture around the world including how the St. Louis Gateway Arch was built, Hoover Dam, famous architects, and stories about the people who built them. There are sites with lesson plans on how to teach students to draw floor plans, make blue prints, and draw their own architectural plans. Also included are several pictures of famous structures, lists of architecture books, and glossaries of words.
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Education Standards:
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MO Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, 4.8, 3
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