Sorting Out the Job World: teacher key
Jobs and Careers, grade 5 edition, written for 5th grade. See jobs that care for others, report the news, build things, move people and goods, and help in daily life. Learn how people train for them.
Read the book. Print this page for the key.
Questions and answers
- What do firefighters help with?
- Fires and other emergencies (answer)
- Finding patterns in big data
- Sorting mail and delivering it
- What is an apprenticeship?
- A government list of many jobs that exist
- A long written test taken at a college
- Learning by working with an expert (answer)
- Which workers sort mail and deliver it?
- Pilots who fly airplanes
- Mail carriers (answer)
- Cooks in restaurants
- Why might an electrician spend three or four years in an apprenticeship?
- To learn the work from an expert (answer)
- To earn a medical degree at college
- To study wild animals in the field
- Which workers keep the public up to date on current events?
- Carpenters who build wood frames
- Truck drivers on the open road
- Reporters and journalists (answer)
Words
- apprenticeship: learning by working
- occupations: kinds of jobs
- librarians: information helpers
- cargo: goods carried
- veterinarians: animal doctors