Career Awareness

Bright-eyed and curious young people in this age group eager to share their thoughts about "what they want to be when they grow up." Career awareness activities allow children to assimilate information about themselves and the world of work into their thinking.

Educators can find many innovative ways to incorporate career awareness into classroom lessons and school-wide activities. Career awareness is easily integrated into state curriculum standards, character education, drug prevention and awareness, social sciences, multiculturalism,, nontraditional careers, and service-learning projects.

 

Additional Resources & Information

• Lesson Plans and Exercises
• Career Speaker Day
• Career Vehicle Day
• In My Town
• Is That Your Final Answer?
• Make the Connection
• School Mascot Deli
• You Can Do It!

• Integrated Lesson Plans
• Social Studies
  K-5SS1 Explore a Time Line
• K-5SS2 A Letter Home
• K-5SS3 Pioneering Goals
• K-5SS4 Inventors & Scientists
• K-5SS5 Historic Decision
• Science
  K-5SCI1 Endangered Species
• K-5SCI2 Hubble Telescope
• K-5SCI3 Collecting Weather Data
• K-5SCI4 Scientific Investigation Reflection
• K-5SCI5 Ocean Pollution
• Math
  K-5Math1 10 Fastest Growing Occupations
• K-5Math2 It's About Time
• K-5Math3 The More Your Learn
• K-5Math4 A Working Day
• K-5Math5 Investigation Teams
• Language Arts
  K-5ELA1 My Interests
• K-5ELA2 Getting Along
• K-5ELA3 Research a Career
• K-5ELA4 It's My Name, It's Me
• K-5ELA5 We Are All Achievers