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CHAPTER 3 How Do I Select Powerful Goals and Powerful Content? 71
1. Purchase the land 2. Blueprints
3. Building contractor 4. Dig a hole
5. Footings and connections for sewer and water 6. Pour cement
7. Block layers build outer walls
8. Carpenters build floors
9. Carpenters build inner structure
10. Carpenters build roof
11. Roofers shingle and carpenters add windows 12. Chimney is built
13. Plumbers put in pipes
14. Insulation
15. Electricians wire
16. Drywall installed
17. Carpenters add doors, cupboards
18. Painters paint
19. Light fixtures are added
20. Carpets laid
Lesson 6: Careers Associated with Shelter
General Purposes or Goals
To develop: knowledge, understanding, and appreciation regarding career opportunities that exist within the home industry; understanding and appreciation for how technology can change the way work is done and how people can change the way homes look; and a sense of efficacy among students—any one of them might invent a machine, a process, or a design that will benefit all of us in the future.
Main Ideas to Develop
• The home industry provides a range of opportunities for individuals to be creative and pursue careers.
• Today, it takes a variety of workers to perform specific steps in building a house or apartment.
• Many changes have occurred in the home building industry over the past 200 years.
Assessment
Have each student complete the open-ended statements. Illustrations are optional.
The one career I would like to have in the home building industry is . I think I would like that job because
The one question I still have about it is
.
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