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KS4 - Local Labour Market - 4 lessons

4 Resources available for download in this module

Local labour market lesson plans.

Helping students understand the local labour market and why it is useful to access information relating to it.

A series of 4 lessons which include student research, paired work and group or class activities. The outcome of these lessons is for students to understand how it will affect them.

Below are the lessons in this topic. Click ‘View these lessons’ to download resources

Business workers in silhouette.

What is a local labour market?

Helping students understand what the local labour market means.

Stack of pound coins.

Finding out about the local labour market

Using official informations and statistics, students investigate their area looking for news.

A white collar worker, representing employment sectors.

Employment sectors

Researching career opportunities in the local labour market.

Cartoon image of a woman on the phone.

Your local labour market

Give students to opportunity to reflect on the information gathered and present to peers.

More About These Activities for Work-related Learning

In order to research their career options properly, students need to understand the market, why it is useful to access information relating to it and where they can find the information.

Lesson 1 – What is the Local Labour Market

The object of this exercise is to establish what the students currently know about this topic. Working in small groups, they must investigate the local area using the internet, newspapers etc.

Lesson 2 – Finding Out About the Local Labour Market

In this lesson, students will be looking at official sources of information about this subject. They are given specific statistics to study and present back to the rest of the class.

Lesson 3 – Employment Sectors and the Local Labour Market

In this activity, look at statistical information from the point of view of individual industries and sectors. Working in pairs they must complete a questionnaire and carry out a role play exercise.

Lesson 4 – Your Local Labour Market

This is a review and demonstration activity. Students must compile their learning on this subject and prepare a visual demonstration either through presentation, display or other method.