
Grades 9-12
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Dog Gone Job! demonstrates how job specialization increases productivity
This lesson is a natural extension to the lesson “Woof! Woof! At Your Service“ or may be implemented independently. Explain to students that they will be talking about types of jobs within a business that that they will watch a video clip taken in a kennel. Ask students to list “jobs” that they observed in the kennel and what that worker does at the kennel
Activity 1
Have students watch the following slide show of the daily activities at a kennel. Instruct them to pay close attention to the types of jobs they see people doing.
As a class, discuss the jobs that were observed in the video:
Ask the students what other jobs may exist at the kennel. What might that person do?
Activity 2
Explain to students that workers are sometimes “specialized” and that they have special skills. This allows a worker time to get very good at one skill instead of learning all of the skills needed to operate a kennel. Ask the students what they think might happen if all of the workers had to know how to do all of the jobs in a kennel? What would happen if all of the employees had to learn how to care for sick animals?
Have the students complete this comparing two workers’ jobs. They will need to have an understanding of Venn Diagrams before they can complete the activity.
Have students think about these questions:
What do you think might happen if all of the workers had to know how to do all of the jobs in a kennel?
What would happen if all of the employees had to learn how to care for sick animals?
Have students list ways in which job specialization is a benefit. You can prompt their answers by asking the following questions:
Alternatively, ask students to list ways in which job specialization is not a benefit:
Have students write a job announcement for a position at the kennel. They can refer to https://www.monster.com/ for examples of job announcements. Have students list the tasks, which that particular worker needs to be able to do.
Grades 9-12
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Grades 9-12
Grades 9-12