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An inquiry-based career exploration project in which students research lesser-known careers within an assigned field, moving beyond common career stereotypes.
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Introduce career options to students. Support career education and planning.
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Job applications & workplace skillsWriting & reflection
Career Research Mini Unit
Get older (upper middle/high school) students thinking about what it means to be a professional, choose and research a career, and create a presentation on their findings while building a mock resume/LinkedIn profile.
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Writing & reflectionGames & group activities
Community Helpers Sorting Mats Activity
Teaches which tools/items belong to different community-helper occupations through a sorting-mat matching game.
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Economics & businessGames & group activities
6th-8th grade: Living the Life you want: Finance Your Dreams Activity Booklet
Introduce basic career and personal-finance awareness through a 'dream job' research activity and a group guessing game about occupations.
Job applications & workplace skillsEconomics & business
Career Exploration Curriculum Grades 9-12 | Full Year Career Readiness
A full-year career readiness curriculum bundle for high school (grades 9-12) covering career planning, job readiness, financial literacy, workplace skills, college/career preparation, entrepreneurship, and professional communication.
Games & group activitiesPuzzles & word games
Everyone Learns Career Exploration: National Career Cluster Framework, Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources
Teach students about 25 careers within the Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources career cluster, using differentiated worksheet/activity formats generated by a toolbox program (DCAT).
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Money & budgetingWriting & reflection
Careers Lesson
Have students research a career of their choice and a college/university connected to that path, answering guided questions about admissions, cost, and fit.
Puzzles & word games
What Is The Job?-An SEL Mystery Reveal Activity!
An interactive presentation activity where students guess a career/job hidden behind a grid of squares that are revealed one at a time, framed as SEL/career-awareness content.
Writing & reflection
When I Grow Up – End-of-Year Career Activity
Students imagine a future career and describe why the work interests them. A fill-in page includes a self-portrait space, while ten additional sentence starters invite details about interests, school subjects and the life they picture. Use the drawing to develop the idea first, then select the longer prompts when students are ready to explain it in more depth.
Free download Writing & reflection
Careers in Manufacturing
Introduce students to careers in manufacturing through video-based research and reflection, in conjunction with Manufacturing Day.
Games & group activities
STEM Careers Bingo game Science Technology Engineering Math activities
Introduce students to exciting future careers with this No Prep STEM Careers Bingo Game ! Students will explore careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics while building career awareness, expanding vocabulary, and learning about the people who solve real-world problems. This engaging bingo game is perfect for career…
Games & group activities
Community helpers occupation bingo game social studies career activity
A bingo game for practicing recognition of community-helper occupation names/vocabulary as part of social studies/career exploration.
Games & group activities
Dominoes: Jobs
Teach occupation/career vocabulary through a picture-and-word domino matching game.
Games & group activities
Speaking Practice Task Cards - Jobs | Careers | Community Helpers
Develop English speaking skills (fluency and confidence) through task-card game activities centered on jobs, careers, and community helpers, for primary-level learners.
Games & group activitiesPuzzles & word games
Construction Hangman Game to Practice Vocabulary
An interactive PowerPoint hangman-style game ('Let's Hang the Teacher') that reviews construction-industry vocabulary (tools, machinery, safety gear, materials) as part of a CTE (career/technical education) curriculum.
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Writing & reflection
Colonial Occupation Mini Poster
A multi-day research and poster project having students explore a colonial-era trade/occupation and its importance.
Clip Cards: Jobs - Spelling & Vocabulary
Clip cards for job/occupation vocabulary and spelling practice.
Puzzles & word games
Art and Design Careers word search, scramble and crossword puzzle
A set of three vocabulary puzzles (crossword, word scramble, word search) built around art and design career terms, for career-exploration/vocabulary practice.
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Future-Ready Creators: AI Ethics & Career Exploration Gamified Project
A 'gamified project unit' guide for high school students (Grades 9-12) covering AI concepts, AI ethics (bias, fairness, transparency) and career exploration in the AI field.
Writing & reflection
BioMechanical Hand Lesson Plan & Activity Guide
A STEM lesson plan and companion activity guide in which students learn that robotic 'hands' (end effectors) are shaped differently depending on their intended function, and build a simple mechanical model of a human hand to explore this concept, with an embedded career-connection segment on (bio)mechanical engineering.
Puzzles & word games
Space Careers Astronaut Vocabulary word search, scramble and crossword
A three-activity vocabulary practice set (crossword, word scramble, word search) built around space-career/astronaut terminology, created by a teacher for a 4th-grade space unit and career-exploration lesson.
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Games & group activities
Construction Interactive Memory Game to Practice Vocabulary
An interactive PowerPoint memory-matching game that reviews construction-industry vocabulary (tools, machinery, safety gear, materials) as part of a CTE (career/technical education) curriculum.
Writing & reflectionPuzzles & word games
Word Puzzle Games | Copy Crossword Wordsearch Anagram | PROFESSIONS
Practice and reinforce professions / occupations vocabulary through a themed set of word puzzles (anagram, crossword, matching, wordsearch).
Writing & reflection
Mary Jackson Interactive Foldable Booklets – EBOOK
Introduce students to the life and NASA career of Mary Jackson through interactive foldable booklets.