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