Pathway Puzzles
What is the term for classes you must take in high school in order to graduate?
What are required/core courses?
A career that involves teaching students in a classroom is in which career cluster?
What is Education & Training?
This is a list of your education, experiences, and skills that you give to employers when applying for a job.
What is a résumé?
Maine produces over 90% of this seafood for the entire United States.
What is lobster?
What is the only mammal that can fly?
What is a bat?
Which pathway would you follow if you wanted to go directly into the military after high school?
What is the military pathway?
If you want to work as a nurse, what is one subject you might need to focus on in high school?
What is science/biology?
The belief that talents and abilities can be developed with effort is called what?
What is growth mindset?
Maine is known as “The Pine Tree State” because almost 90% of the land is covered in this.
What are forests/trees?
How many states make up New England?
What is six? (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut)
If you wanted to learn a trade like plumbing or welding, which type of program might you attend?
What is a trade school or technical program?
What is the difference between a job and a career?
A job is short-term work; a career is a long-term path in a field.
This word describes a short period of work experience, often unpaid, where you learn about a career.
What is an internship?
The Kennebec Journal in Augusta is one of the oldest continuously published newspapers in the U.S. It was founded in what year?
What is 1825?
What is the largest planet in our solar system?
What is Jupiter?
Name two post-secondary options students can pursue after high school.
What are college, trade school, military, or workforce?
What type of skills are important in almost every career, like teamwork, communication, and problem-solving?
What are employability/soft skills?
A plan that outlines your career and education goals is often called a what?
What is a career plan (or pathway plan)?
This Maine shipyard has been building Navy ships since the 1800s and is still a leader today.
What is Bath Iron Works?
In what year did the iPhone first come out?
What is 2007?
This program lets high school students take college-level classes and earn both high school and college credit at the same time.
What is dual enrollment (or Early College)?
If you are interested in designing video games, which career cluster might you explore?
What is Information Technology (IT)?
This term means the money you earn from working a job.
What is income (or salary/wages)?
If stretched out, Maine’s jagged coastline would measure about how many miles—longer than California’s?
What is 3,500 miles?
What is the hardest natural substance on Earth?
What is diamond?