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Ask the Experts

Lesson Plan

Crafting Your Questions

Students will create a personalized list of questions to ask career professionals, enhancing their communication skills and confidence.

This lesson supports individual expression and prepares students for meaningful engagement at career fairs, fostering important career exploration skills.

Audience

5th Grade Students

Time

30 minutes

Approach

Guided individual brainstorming with supportive materials.

Materials

Crafting Your Questions, and Personalized Question List (Worksheet)

Prep

Preparation

5 minutes

  • Review the Crafting Your Questions lesson plan to understand the steps and tips for generating open-ended questions.
  • Prepare copies or digital versions of the Personalized Question List worksheet.
  • Familiarize yourself with career-related vocabulary and examples that may be relevant to students.

Step 1

Introduction and Brainstorming

10 minutes

  • Introduce the activity by discussing what questions one might ask a career professional during a career fair.
  • Ask students to think about their interests and what they’d like to know about various careers.
  • Encourage students to complete the first section of their Personalized Question List worksheet by jotting down ideas.

Step 2

Question Formulation

10 minutes

  • Guide students in transforming their ideas into open-ended, thoughtful questions.
  • Circulate among students for Tier 3 individual support, offering suggestions to refine their questions.
  • Use examples from the Crafting Your Questions lesson plan to model effective questioning techniques.

Step 3

Review and Reflection

5 minutes

  • Have students review and finalize their list of questions.
  • Encourage a few volunteers to share one or two questions with the group.
  • Provide positive feedback and highlight the value of asking good questions at career fairs.
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Worksheet

Personalized Question List

This worksheet will guide you in creating your list of questions to ask career professionals. Follow the steps below and take your time to think about what you'd like to learn. Remember: good questions are open-ended and show your curiosity!

1. Brainstorming Your Interests

Think about the types of careers you are curious about or what you enjoy doing. List a few topics or fields you are interested in.





2. Drafting Your Questions

Now, write down some questions you might ask a career professional. Try to make them open-ended (questions that can't be answered with just 'yes' or 'no'). For example, "What exciting projects do you work on?"





3. Finalizing Your List

Review the questions you wrote. Choose your top 3-5 questions that you feel are the best to ask at the career fair. Write them neatly here.





Great job! You're ready to ask some amazing questions at the career fair.

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