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Careers
Key Concepts:
- Stakeholders and experts from a variety of viewpoints, biases, persuasiveness, and expertise
- Stakeholders and experts tackle tough issues related to the future of energy topic and describe their work with these issues through Web sites, videos, and interactive DVDs
- Stakeholders and experts interact with students via the Iowa Communications Network videoconferencing classrooms about careers and how they deal with the issues related to the future of energy
- Viewpoints from a variety of stakeholders, experts, and career professionals include a senator, fossil fuels professor, geothermal spokesperson, biomass researcher, environmentalist, power company spokesperson, solar entrepreneur, hydropower superintendent, nuclear industry manager, energy consultant, researcher, energy data analyst, and policy expert
- A variety of primary and secondary sources of informational texts such as feature articles, editorials, interview transcripts, reference, public documents, and consumer documents help students explore how career professionals rely on energy to do their jobs
 IPTV’s School to Careers Project
IPTV School to Careers is a career development project for 7-12th grade students, educators, and parents. If you are an Iowa educator, your students have access to video, Web, and interactive activities as they are introduced to career professionals, projects, and ideas that help them identify their interests and plan for the future. Over 200 Iowa career professionals are profiled on the Web site through video, photos, and text. Through discussion boards and interactive activities, students gain a realistic portrait of a variety of career pathways.
As students link from the Explore More: The Future of Energy Web site to explore career connections on the School to Careers Web site, they can discover which careers use energy as a significant part of the job and which careers determine how energy is used. Careers include aircraft maintenance, chief pilot, construction engineer, director of environmental services, driver, electric line crew foreman, electrician, farmer, industrial engineer, mechanical engineer, tool and die maker, truck mechanic, and welder.
No matter where their interests lie, students can learn about ways to prepare for careers in energy. Of course they will need math. Writing, reading, and analyzing are important skills for some jobs. Other careers depend on scientific inquiry. History, politics, and geography open up some possibilities. But so does industrial technology, driver's education, and physics. Every subject they learn in school has some application to a career in energy.
Visit the School to Careers Web site at www.careers.iptv.org.
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