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Career Choices / World Geography
All Freshmen students enroll in one semester of Career Choices paired with one semester of World Geography. Both classes are taught each semester, so a students could have either of the two classes the first semester. Career Choices was previously named Get Focused Stay Focused. This pairing began in the 2024-2025 school year. Previously Career Choices was paired with Health. Beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, the Fresmen classes of 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 and following years will take Health and Ethnic Studies in their Junior year.*
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Career Choices Teachers
 Katie Alling
AG CAREER CHOICES |
CTE AG
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 Brandi Fowler
CAREER CHOICES | PSYCHOLOGY
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 Brooke Lomeli
CAREER CHOICES |
ENGLISH
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 Liz Renteria
CAREER CHOICES
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Career Choices & the online 10-year plan is an interdisciplinary curriculum that engages students and teachers in an interactive learning process, helping them develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to successfully: examine their own lives, explore and evaluate a wide range of education and career options, and make reasoned /researched goals for their future.
ESSENTIAL LEARNING OUTCOMES (ELOs):
At the end of the course, students will develop the ability to:
- Identify personal principles and values and create a personal profile of goals.
- Assess current skills and identify where you are now and your goals for the future.
- Complete a decision-making matrix and identify tools to research future career fields.
- Create a personal budget profile on a specific industry sector and analyze the budget impact on future decisions.
- Students will compile a personal portfolio of a 10Year Plan (on-line website) which will follow the students during and beyond their high school years to attain stated goals.opportunities.
COURSE SYLLABUS:
- Katie Alling kalling@njuhsd.com 530.273.4431
- Brandi Fowler bfowler@njuhsd.com 530.273.4431 x2266
- Brooke Lomeli blomeli@njuhsd.com 530.273.4431 x2217
- Liz Renteria
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World Geography Teachers
 Jennifer Donnor
SOCIAL STUDIES
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 Jake Pereles
SOCIAL STUDIES
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 Molly Starr
SOCIAL STUDIES
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This is a semester course for all students at Nevada Union. The course is designed to teach students the basics of physical, political, and cultural geography, including the five themes of geography. The course will give students a global perspective and allow them to explore the world at large.
ESSENTIAL LEARNING OUTCOMES (ELOs):
ELO 1
- Demonstrate the ability to use geographer’s tools by designing a map with basic components.
- Read a map and identify major physical, climactic, economic and human characteristics.
- Use a case study to measure geography’s influence on economics, politics, the environment, history and culture.
ELO 2
- Describe the physical and human geography of North America, Canada and the United States and its territories.
- Create a tour of a national park using topographic mapping skills.
- Explain how indigenous people adapted to their environment and how settlement and migration patterns influenced the lives of people.
- Evaluate the impact of forced assimilation and residential schools in the U.S. and Canada.
ELO 3
- Describe the physical and human geography of South and Latin America.
- Compare ancient civilizations and the preservation of their traditions while adapting to modern life.
- Explain how people have adapted to their environment and worked toward the preservation of natural habitats.
- Identify causes and consequences of urbanization and the effects of spatial inequality (e.g. Mexico City).
ELO 4
- Describe the physical and human geography of Europe.
- Explain supranational cooperation among nations such as the European Union (EU) and the Warsaw Treaty Organization (WTO) and the forces that unite and divide them.
- Analyze population trends and how they affect a country’s future, noting growth rates and development levels throughout the world.
- Analyze how one country’s pollution can become another country’s problem such as radioactive spills and acid rain. (cut this one?)
ELO 5
- Describe the physical and human geography of Africa.
- Explain how people adapt to their environment.
- Analyze how different ethnic group differences affect who controls resources and power in society.
ELO 6
- Describe the physical and human geography of Southwest and Central Asia.
- Explain how having a valuable resource might affect a region.
ELO 7
- Describe the physical and human geography of Monsoon Asia.
- Explain how having a valuable resource might affect a region.
- Jennifer Donnor jdonnor@njuhsd.com 530.273.4431 x2243
- Jake Pereles
- Molly Starr