List of Lessons

Educator

Xello 6-12 Time

8 minutes

Xello's interactive lessons encourage ongoing learning and reflection on a wide range of future readiness topics. They can be woven into curriculum plans, assigned as self-paced activities, and used as milestones of progress. Your students will uncover new skills and insights, and you’ll seamlessly strengthen their knowledge and professional skills without ever leaving Xello. Be sure to check out the Lesson resources to help further support your students in their future-readiness.

Note: These grade levels are recommendations. Your school's lesson sequence may be different. Check out this article on how to View the lesson sequence to learn more.

Xello task	At a glance	About this task	Prerequisites
Interests lesson	Recommended grade: 6 On task time: 10 mins Suggested instructional time: 40 mins	In this lesson, students will reflect on some of the interests they have saved in Xello's interest inventory, explore the link between interests and various careers, and investigate how their interests match up with a career they like. To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.	Add at least 5 interests Save at least 3 careers
School subjects at work lesson	Recommended grade: 6 On task time: 10 mins Suggested instructional time: 45 mins	In this lesson, students will relate school subjects to various tasks, reflect on their favorite school subject, and explore ways to use their favorite school subject in a career that interests them. To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.	Save at least 3 careers
Decision making lesson	Recommended grade: 6 On task time: 15 mins Suggested instructional time: 45 mins	In this lesson, students will understand the importance of making informed, responsible decisions when faced with important choices. They learn about the importance of considering the consequences of potential decisions, explore the difference between gut and logic decisions, and reflect on an important decision they've recently made. To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.	None
Time management lesson	Recommended grade: 6 On task time: 15 mins Suggested instructional time: 45 mins	In this lesson, students will explain why time management is important in school and on the job, create a time budget to assess how they currently manage their time, and explore ways to improve their time management skills. To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.	Save at least 3 careers
Learning styles lesson	Recommended grade: 7 On task time: 10 mins Suggested instructional time: 55 mins	In this lesson, students will investigate visual, auditory, and tactile learning styles, and explore how understanding their own learning style can help them in school and on the job. To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.	Complete the Learning Style quiz Save at least 3 careers
Discover learning pathways lesson	Recommended grade: 7 On task time: 10 mins Suggested instructional time: 55 mins	In this lesson, students will investigate their post-high school pathway options, explore the pathways to various careers, and evaluate the pathways they could take to a career that interests them. To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.	Save at least 3 careers
Biases and career choices lesson	Recommended grade: 7 On task time: 10 mins Suggested instructional time: 45 mins	In this lesson, students will identify biases of gender, ethnicity, ability, and class in the workplace and explore how biases can influence career choices. To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.	None
Jobs and employers lesson	Recommended grade: 7 On task time: 10 mins Suggested instructional time: 45 mins	In this lesson, students will explore ways to find employment (such as job boards and networking), reflect on the advantages and disadvantages of various work search strategies, and research potential employers in their community. To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.	Save at least 3 careers
Skills lesson	Recommended grade: 8 On task time: 15 mins Suggested instructional time: 55 mins	In this lesson, students will explore the skills required to perform various activities, as well as the link between their skills and career goals. To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.	Save at least 3 careers
Explore career matches lesson	Recommended grade: 8 On task time: 15 mins Suggested instructional time: 55 mins	In this lesson, students will investigate central, secondary, and other aspects of the career match assessment and explore how the aspects relate to careers. They also reflect on their results and explore the aspects for a career that interests them. To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.	Complete the Matchmaker quiz Save at least 3 careers
Transition to high school lesson	Recommended grade: 8 On task time: 10 mins Suggested instructional time: 45 mins	In this lesson, students will explore ways to make their transition to high school easier and more successful. They identify questions and concerns they have about entering high school, explore clubs, activities, and other resources to help handle transition to high school, and develop other strategies to deal with transitions. To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.	Save at least 5 interests
Self-advocacy lesson	Recommended grade: 7 On task time: 10 mins Suggested instructional time: 45 mins	In this lesson, students will understand the concept of self-advocacy, identify situations where they may need to advocate for themselves or issues they may want to advocate for, identify skills and behaviors required to effectively advocate for themselves, and explore ways they can advocate for themselves in school, in the community, at home, and in a career. To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.	None
Personality styles lesson	Recommended grade: 9 On task time: 15 mins Suggested instructional time: 55 mins	In this lesson, students will investigate personality styles, and explore how their own personality style can help them at home, school, and work. To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.	Complete the Personality Style quiz Save at least 3 careers
Exploring career factors lesson	Recommended grade: 8 On task time: 15 mins Suggested instructional time: 55 mins	In this lesson, students will explore factors that may influence their career decisions: work/life balance, money, making a difference, education, interests, and growth. Students assess which of these 6 core factors are important to them, and prioritize the factors. To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.	Save at least 3 careers
Getting experience lesson	Recommended grade: 9 On task time: 10 mins Suggested instructional time: 45 mins	In this lesson, students will explore different ways they can get work experience now. They identify several ways to get experience (such as community service/volunteerism, co-op programs, part-time jobs, and internships), and assess which type of experience is best suited to their career goals. To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.	Save at least 3 careers Add at least 3 experiences to the Experiences timeline
Study skills and habits lesson	Recommended grade: 8 On task time: 15 mins Suggested instructional time: 55 mins	In this lesson, students will identify skills, habits, and behaviors they need to learn successfully in high school, explore potential obstacles to success in their schoolwork (such as lack of motivation, distractions, and lapses in self-confidence), and plan how to develop positive study habits and behaviors. To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.	None
Work values lesson	Recommended grade: 9 On task time: 15 mins Suggested instructional time: 55 mins	In this lesson, students will explore their own work values, and investigate careers that they may find satisfying based on their values. To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.	Save at least 3 careers
Careers and lifestyle costs lesson	Recommended grade: 9 Recommended year: 10 or 11 On task time: 10 mins Suggested instructional time: 65 mins	In this lesson, students will identify some of their most important lifestyle goals and assess whether they can achieve their lifestyle goals in a career that interests them. To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.	Save at least 3 careers
Workplace skills and attitudes lesson	Recommended grade: 9 On task time: 10 mins Suggested instructional time: 45 mins	In this lesson, students will explore skills and behaviors that employers look for, such as time management, dependability, communication skills, and problem solving. Students explain why these skills and behaviors are important in various careers and how they manifest on the job, and assess their own employability skills. To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.	Save at least 3 careers
Program prospects lesson	Recommended grade: 10 On task time: 15 mins Suggested instructional time: 55 mins	In this lesson, students will distinguish between different types of post-secondary programs, such as apprenticeships and degree programs, explore career options related to different types of programs, and evaluate their program options in terms of their strengths, academic interests, and career interests. To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.	Save at least 3 majors
Choosing a college lesson	Recommended grade: 11 On task time: 10 mins Suggested instructional time: 65 mins	In this lesson, students will identify which factors are important to them in a potential post-secondary school, and investigate how a college stacks up to their priorities. To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.	Save at least 3 colleges
Career demand lesson	Recommended grade: 10 On task time: 15 mins Suggested instructional time: 65 mins	In this lesson, students will learn about job projections and outlook, analyze factors that impact job demand (such as changes in technology, demographics, business practices or production methods, consumer preferences, and workplace restructuring), and explore how their career plans may be shaped by demand for a career that interests them. To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.	Save at least 3 careers
Entrepreneurial skills lesson	Recommended grade: 10 On task time: 10 mins Suggested instructional time: 45 mins	In this lesson, students will identify the skills and characteristics that make entrepreneurs successful and investigate paths to becoming an entrepreneur (such as starting your own business or buying a franchise). Students explore the benefits and challenges of becoming an entrepreneur and investigate ways to apply entrepreneurial skills within a career that interests them. To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.	Save at least 3 careers
Work/life balance lesson	Recommended grade: 10 On task time: 15 mins Suggested instructional time: 55 mins	In this lesson, students will assess how their current work (school) demands affect family life, free time, and other time, identify the work demands of a career of interest, and explore strategies for maintaining a healthy life/work balance now and in the future. To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.	Save at least 3 careers
Defining success lesson	Recommended grade: 11 On task time: 10 mins Suggested instructional time: 45 mins	In this lesson, students will explore what success means to them in various aspects of life, including their personal life, school, and career, and explore ways they can make a difference and achieve success in a career that interests them. To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.	Save at least 3 careers
Career backup plans lesson	Recommended grade: 11 On task time: 15 mins Suggested instructional time: 55 mins	In this lesson, students will understand the importance of career backup plans, and explore potential backup careers for themselves. To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.	Save at least 3 careers
Job interviews lesson	Recommended grade: 10 On task time: 15 mins Suggested instructional time: 65 mins	In this lesson, students will explore ways to prepare for a job interview, describe their own abilities and qualifications in the context of an interview, investigate job interview questions in the context of a career that interests them, and explore appropriate post-interview behaviors and actions. To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.	Save at least 3 careers
Career path choices lesson	Recommended grade: 11 On task time: 10 mins Suggested instructional time: 65 mins	In this lesson, students will understand that career development is a process of constant change, that flexibility and adaptability can help them continually explore their career options, and the importance of re-evaluating their interests, skills, and circumstances in order to identify the need or desire for a career change. To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.	Add at least 5 interests Save at least 3 careers

Xello task

At a glance

About this task

Prerequisites

Interests lesson

Recommended grade: 6

On task time: 10 mins

Suggested instructional time: 40 mins

In this lesson, students will reflect on some of the interests they have saved in Xello's interest inventory, explore the link between interests and various careers, and investigate how their interests match up with a career they like.

To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.

Add at least 5 interests

Save at least 3 careers

School subjects at work lesson

Recommended grade: 6

On task time: 10 mins

Suggested instructional time: 45 mins

In this lesson, students will relate school subjects to various tasks, reflect on their favorite school subject, and explore ways to use their favorite school subject in a career that interests them.

To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.

Save at least 3 careers

Decision making lesson

Recommended grade: 6

On task time: 15 mins

Suggested instructional time: 45 mins

In this lesson, students will understand the importance of making informed, responsible decisions when faced with important choices. They learn about the importance of considering the consequences of potential decisions, explore the difference between gut and logic decisions, and reflect on an important decision they've recently made.

To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.

None

Time management lesson

Recommended grade: 6

On task time: 15 mins

Suggested instructional time: 45 mins

In this lesson, students will explain why time management is important in school and on the job, create a time budget to assess how they currently manage their time, and explore ways to improve their time management skills.

To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.

Save at least 3 careers

Learning styles lesson

Recommended grade: 7

On task time: 10 mins

Suggested instructional time: 55 mins

In this lesson, students will investigate visual, auditory, and tactile learning styles, and explore how understanding their own learning style can help them in school and on the job.

To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.

Complete the Learning Style quiz

Save at least 3 careers

Discover learning pathways lesson

Recommended grade: 7

On task time: 10 mins

Suggested instructional time: 55 mins

In this lesson, students will investigate their post-high school pathway options, explore the pathways to various careers, and evaluate the pathways they could take to a career that interests them.

To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.

Save at least 3 careers

Biases and career choices lesson

Recommended grade: 7

On task time: 10 mins

Suggested instructional time: 45 mins

In this lesson, students will identify biases of gender, ethnicity, ability, and class in the workplace and explore how biases can influence career choices.

To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.

None

Jobs and employers lesson

Recommended grade: 7

On task time: 10 mins

Suggested instructional time: 45 mins

In this lesson, students will explore ways to find employment (such as job boards and networking), reflect on the advantages and disadvantages of various work search strategies, and research potential employers in their community.

To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.

Save at least 3 careers

Skills lesson

Recommended grade: 8

On task time: 15 mins

Suggested instructional time: 55 mins

In this lesson, students will explore the skills required to perform various activities, as well as the link between their skills and career goals.

To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.

Save at least 3 careers

Explore career matches lesson

Recommended grade: 8

On task time: 15 mins

Suggested instructional time: 55 mins

In this lesson, students will investigate central, secondary, and other aspects of the career match assessment and explore how the aspects relate to careers. They also reflect on their results and explore the aspects for a career that interests them.

To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.

Complete the Matchmaker quiz

Save at least 3 careers

Transition to high school lesson

Recommended grade: 8

On task time: 10 mins

Suggested instructional time: 45 mins

In this lesson, students will explore ways to make their transition to high school easier and more successful. They identify questions and concerns they have about entering high school, explore clubs, activities, and other resources to help handle transition to high school, and develop other strategies to deal with transitions.

To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.

Save at least 5 interests

Self-advocacy lesson

Recommended grade: 7

On task time: 10 mins

Suggested instructional time: 45 mins

In this lesson, students will understand the concept of self-advocacy, identify situations where they may need to advocate for themselves or issues they may want to advocate for, identify skills and behaviors required to effectively advocate for themselves, and explore ways they can advocate for themselves in school, in the community, at home, and in a career.

To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.

None

Personality styles lesson

Recommended grade: 9

On task time: 15 mins

Suggested instructional time: 55 mins

In this lesson, students will investigate personality styles, and explore how their own personality style can help them at home, school, and work.

To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.

Complete the Personality Style quiz

Save at least 3 careers

Exploring career factors lesson

Recommended grade: 8

On task time: 15 mins

Suggested instructional time: 55 mins

In this lesson, students will explore factors that may influence their career decisions: work/life balance, money, making a difference, education, interests, and growth. Students assess which of these 6 core factors are important to them, and prioritize the factors.

To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.

Save at least 3 careers

Getting experience lesson

Recommended grade: 9

On task time: 10 mins

Suggested instructional time: 45 mins

In this lesson, students will explore different ways they can get work experience now. They identify several ways to get experience (such as community service/volunteerism, co-op programs, part-time jobs, and internships), and assess which type of experience is best suited to their career goals.

To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.

Save at least 3 careers

Add at least 3 experiences to the Experiences timeline

Study skills and habits lesson

Recommended grade: 8

On task time: 15 mins

Suggested instructional time: 55 mins

In this lesson, students will identify skills, habits, and behaviors they need to learn successfully in high school, explore potential obstacles to success in their schoolwork (such as lack of motivation, distractions, and lapses in self-confidence), and plan how to develop positive study habits and behaviors.

To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.

None

Work values lesson

Recommended grade: 9

On task time: 15 mins

Suggested instructional time: 55 mins

In this lesson, students will explore their own work values, and investigate careers that they may find satisfying based on their values.

To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.

Save at least 3 careers

Careers and lifestyle costs lesson

Recommended grade: 9

Recommended year: 10 or 11

On task time: 10 mins

Suggested instructional time: 65 mins

In this lesson, students will identify some of their most important lifestyle goals and assess whether they can achieve their lifestyle goals in a career that interests them.

To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.

Save at least 3 careers

Workplace skills and attitudes lesson

Recommended grade: 9

On task time: 10 mins

Suggested instructional time: 45 mins

In this lesson, students will explore skills and behaviors that employers look for, such as time management, dependability, communication skills, and problem solving. Students explain why these skills and behaviors are important in various careers and how they manifest on the job, and assess their own employability skills.

To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.

Save at least 3 careers

Program prospects lesson

Recommended grade: 10

On task time: 15 mins

Suggested instructional time: 55 mins

In this lesson, students will distinguish between different types of post-secondary programs, such as apprenticeships and degree programs, explore career options related to different types of programs, and evaluate their program options in terms of their strengths, academic interests, and career interests.

To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.

Save at least 3 majors

Choosing a college lesson

Recommended grade: 11

On task time: 10 mins

Suggested instructional time: 65 mins

In this lesson, students will identify which factors are important to them in a potential post-secondary school, and investigate how a college stacks up to their priorities.

To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.

Save at least 3 colleges

Career demand lesson

Recommended grade: 10

On task time: 15 mins

Suggested instructional time: 65 mins

In this lesson, students will learn about job projections and outlook, analyze factors that impact job demand (such as changes in technology, demographics, business practices or production methods, consumer preferences, and workplace restructuring), and explore how their career plans may be shaped by demand for a career that interests them.

To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.

Save at least 3 careers

Entrepreneurial skills lesson

Recommended grade: 10

On task time: 10 mins

Suggested instructional time: 45 mins

In this lesson, students will identify the skills and characteristics that make entrepreneurs successful and investigate paths to becoming an entrepreneur (such as starting your own business or buying a franchise). Students explore the benefits and challenges of becoming an entrepreneur and investigate ways to apply entrepreneurial skills within a career that interests them.

To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.

Save at least 3 careers

Work/life balance lesson

Recommended grade: 10

On task time: 15 mins

Suggested instructional time: 55 mins

In this lesson, students will assess how their current work (school) demands affect family life, free time, and other time, identify the work demands of a career of interest, and explore strategies for maintaining a healthy life/work balance now and in the future.

To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.

Save at least 3 careers

Defining success lesson

Recommended grade: 11

On task time: 10 mins

Suggested instructional time: 45 mins

In this lesson, students will explore what success means to them in various aspects of life, including their personal life, school, and career, and explore ways they can make a difference and achieve success in a career that interests them.

To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.

Save at least 3 careers

Career backup plans lesson

Recommended grade: 11

On task time: 15 mins

Suggested instructional time: 55 mins

In this lesson, students will understand the importance of career backup plans, and explore potential backup careers for themselves.

To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.

Save at least 3 careers

Job interviews lesson

Recommended grade: 10

On task time: 15 mins

Suggested instructional time: 65 mins

In this lesson, students will explore ways to prepare for a job interview, describe their own abilities and qualifications in the context of an interview, investigate job interview questions in the context of a career that interests them, and explore appropriate post-interview behaviors and actions.

To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.

Save at least 3 careers

Career path choices lesson

Recommended grade: 11

On task time: 10 mins

Suggested instructional time: 65 mins

In this lesson, students will understand that career development is a process of constant change, that flexibility and adaptability can help them continually explore their career options, and the importance of re-evaluating their interests, skills, and circumstances in order to identify the need or desire for a career change.

To support your students even further, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson.

Add at least 5 interests

Save at least 3 careers

Additional resources

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PDFXello 6-12: Recommended scope and sequence for weekly activities
Weekly grade-by-grade tasks to get your middle and high school students future-ready!
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