Hundreds of Ways to Work: teacher key

Jobs and Careers, grade 4 edition, written for 4th grade. There are hundreds of kinds of jobs. Meet firefighters, police officers, doctors, nurses, vets, pilots and more, and see how people learn jobs.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What do firefighters do?
   • Sort and deliver mail
   • Study animals in the wild
   • Put out fires (answer)
2. What is an apprenticeship?
   • A test taken before a job
   • Learning from an expert (answer)
   • A long list of many jobs
3. Which workers take passengers and cargo from place to place?
   • Pilots (answer)
   • Librarians
   • Carpenters
4. Who studies how animals live in their ecosystems?
   • Nurses
   • Police officers
   • Zoologists (answer)
5. What can people do about their jobs?
   • Change them (answer)
   • Keep just one
   • Never learn one

Words

• apprenticeship: learning by working
• cargo: goods carried
• zoologists: animal scientists
• ecosystems: living web places