The
Big Picture
Essential
Skills for Life, Learning and Work
Table of Contents
Introductory Activities
Web-Quest Activities 1-5
(Intro
to Essential Skills)
Beginner Activities
Guest
Speakers Assignment (Let Me Introduce…)
Student Applications of
Working and Learning (AWAL) (Going AWAL for a Day)
A Day in the Life of a Parent
(Reality
Check)
Tally Sheets Assignment (You
Are What You Eat)
Essential Skills Coat of Arms (Armed
with Essential Skills)
Oil and Gas Drilling Workers –
What Do They Do? (It’s a Gas Working
in the Petroleum Industry)
Personal Diaries
from WWI: Storyboard Assignment (Lest We Forget)
Intermediate Activities
“Interview With an
Entrepreneur” (Does This Shoe Fit?)
Behaviour-Based
Interviews (Prove It!)
Reflective Journals
Daily Assignment (Ya Think?)
I am Essential Skills
and my Name is…
Advertising Our
School Play (All the World’s a Stage)
Daycare Woodworking
Assignment (Gifts of Wood)
Parking Lot Surveys and Graphing (Check
Out Those Wheels!)
Terminology Portfolio (Dissecting
Essential Skills)
Expert Activities
Essential Skills Interactive Testing Centre
(Try
It, You’ll Like It)
Job-Twinning (Me and My Shadow)
Employee
Profiles Research (Positive Profiling)
Essential Skills Portfolio (Box
of Life)
Essential Skills Workshop Brochure (Sign
Up Now)
Managing Conflict Role-Playing (Conflict
– Says Who?)
Essential Skills
Survivor Challenge