Middle Years (5-8)
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Career Development in Middle Years
How can you help middle years teachers?
Video series (e.g. local business tours, local professional interviews)
Leadership Club
Career Week
Skill development
Unit introductions for any subject that connect to career development concepts
See the CDLE Initiatives section of the website.
I teach _____. How can you help me?
Resources for Grades 5-8
Resources by Grade
Grade 5
Grade 6
Babysitter Course Possibilities
Canadian Red Cross (through Canadian First Aid Training)
Further Reading
Grade 7
"Project 11 is an engaging cross-curricular prevention program targeting Manitoba’s English Language Arts and Physical Education/Health Education outcomes. Weekly lessons and daily activities have been designed to help support students and teachers in bringing mental health awareness, along with positive coping skills into their lives. "
Grade 8
Cost: Free
Time: 3 hours
In order to get a job in Manitoba under the age of 16, you must complete this course. You can do it online, at your own pace. It takes about 3 hours to complete but you can log out and log back in anytime.
Cost: Free
Looking for resources on safety in the workplace? Connect with Safe Workers of Tomorrow (SWOT) for possible presentation topics. They discuss workplace hazard recognition, W.H.M.I.S., prevention of workplace injury, rights and responsibilities of the worker and workplace, and others.
Cost: Free
Time: 25-45 minutes
Volunteer Manitoba can speak to your class(es) about the benefits of volunteering and how to find the right opportunity. Example topics include:
Individual benefits of giving back to your community
How volunteerism can help develop job skills
Benefits to the community
How to create your own community project
Information on scholarships and bursaries for students
Information on accessing the high school credit for volunteering