8th Grade Lessons
Update Yearly on Career Cruising
Activities and Abilities
Extracurricular Activities
Hobbies and Interest
Skills and Abilities
Awards and Certificates
Work Experience
Volunteer Experiences
(Go back to grade 5 lessons if you need a refresher on how to update this information)
Remember scholarships, job applications and college entrance depend on academic achievement as well as extracurricular activities.
Learning Style Strategies Continue to work through Learning Style Strategies. By the time you have completed grade 8 you should have worked through the provided lists of learning style strategies for your strengths. Make sure you use a strategy long enough to get good at it. At that point, decide if it helps or not. If it helps keep using it from time to time, if it doesn't eliminate it. Your goal is to be efficient with your learning by the time you reach high school.
Refer to the Learning Styles PowerPoint for review.
Multiple Intelligence Have you picked options in your learning that you enjoy? If not, what are you waiting for. Just remember, when you do something you enjoy you put more effort into it? The same goes for your learning. Make it fun and you will learn more.
Refer to the Multiple Intelligence PowerPoint for review.
Career Matchmaker Assessment
Have you wondered what careers might match your likes and interest? The career matchmaker assessment will help with this.
Complete all 116 questions of this assessment. It will provide a partial profile of your likes and interest and how they match to careers. Remember, you will continue to grow and change. How you answer the questions today may be different a year from now.
Log onto Career Cruising
Click on Assessments (located on top bar)
Click Start Matchmaker
Read the introduction and add a Matchmaker label (8th grade)
Click on Start Now
Answer the all 116 questions and enjoy the results.
Explore your career choices.
If there are careers that peek your interest, save them to your portfolio. This will make it easy to revisit them in the future. You must save at least one career to your portfolio.
Exploring Careers: Update careers of interest. Continue exploring careers by school subject or career clusters
Click on Careers (located on top bar)
Click on either School Subject or 16 Career Clusters
Remember the more you explore the better prepared you will be by the time you graduate. Save as many careers to your portfolio as interest you. They can always be deleted later.
Grade 9 Course Plan
Click on My Plan by your name on the top of the page
Click on My Course Plan
Start putting in classes that you are interested in. High school counselors will come over to schedule in January.
Short and Long Term Goals The process of setting goals helps you choose where you want to go in life. By knowing precisely what you want to achieve, you know where you have to concentrate your efforts. You'll also quickly spot the distractions that can, so easily, lead you astray.
Click on My Plan by your name on the top of the page
Click on My Goals and Plans
Enter your long and short term goals
Activities and Abilities
Extracurricular Activities
Hobbies and Interest
Skills and Abilities
Awards and Certificates
Work Experience
Volunteer Experiences
(Go back to grade 5 lessons if you need a refresher on how to update this information)
Remember scholarships, job applications and college entrance depend on academic achievement as well as extracurricular activities.
Learning Style Strategies Continue to work through Learning Style Strategies. By the time you have completed grade 8 you should have worked through the provided lists of learning style strategies for your strengths. Make sure you use a strategy long enough to get good at it. At that point, decide if it helps or not. If it helps keep using it from time to time, if it doesn't eliminate it. Your goal is to be efficient with your learning by the time you reach high school.
Refer to the Learning Styles PowerPoint for review.
Multiple Intelligence Have you picked options in your learning that you enjoy? If not, what are you waiting for. Just remember, when you do something you enjoy you put more effort into it? The same goes for your learning. Make it fun and you will learn more.
Refer to the Multiple Intelligence PowerPoint for review.
Career Matchmaker Assessment
Have you wondered what careers might match your likes and interest? The career matchmaker assessment will help with this.
Complete all 116 questions of this assessment. It will provide a partial profile of your likes and interest and how they match to careers. Remember, you will continue to grow and change. How you answer the questions today may be different a year from now.
Log onto Career Cruising
Click on Assessments (located on top bar)
Click Start Matchmaker
Read the introduction and add a Matchmaker label (8th grade)
Click on Start Now
Answer the all 116 questions and enjoy the results.
Explore your career choices.
If there are careers that peek your interest, save them to your portfolio. This will make it easy to revisit them in the future. You must save at least one career to your portfolio.
Exploring Careers: Update careers of interest. Continue exploring careers by school subject or career clusters
Click on Careers (located on top bar)
Click on either School Subject or 16 Career Clusters
Remember the more you explore the better prepared you will be by the time you graduate. Save as many careers to your portfolio as interest you. They can always be deleted later.
Grade 9 Course Plan
Click on My Plan by your name on the top of the page
Click on My Course Plan
Start putting in classes that you are interested in. High school counselors will come over to schedule in January.
Short and Long Term Goals The process of setting goals helps you choose where you want to go in life. By knowing precisely what you want to achieve, you know where you have to concentrate your efforts. You'll also quickly spot the distractions that can, so easily, lead you astray.
Click on My Plan by your name on the top of the page
Click on My Goals and Plans
Enter your long and short term goals