Career Activities

Take a look through the different career-based activities

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Games

Kids Work!

Kids Work! is a virtual community of workplaces designed to give students an interactive job exploration experience that connects school work to real work.

Career OneStop

Career videos are organized into 16 clusters, or related types of work. Select a category to view a list of videos related to that cluster. Videos include career details such as tasks, work settings, education needed, and more.

Career View

This is an interactive game for students that has three levels to help students learn about jobs on each level. The Career Town has an educator's guide for each "level' of the game.

What Do They Do?

Click on different careers for explanations on what they do

Business

Tycoon Games

Exercise your customer service and time management skills, and entrepreneurial qualities, and learn how to run a successful business or operation on these fun interactive business simulation / strategy games.

Biz Kids

This site provides an interactive game that explains business vocabulary in more kid-friendly terms. Students make career decisions to save, earn interest, and move to each level.

Engineering

American Society for Civil Engineers

This site provides lots of definitions describing architectural structures of buildings, bridges, etc. Great for older students interested in engineering to explore the "why" in how buildings are built.

Energy for Kids

This site provides great information about energy, careers in energy, and fun games and activities, such as science fair experiments, for students to see and learn from.

Science & Health

NASA Careers in Space

Explore careers in Aerospace. What does an Astronaut do?

CIA- Spy Kids

Secret gadgets? Sneaking around in trench coats? Danger around every corner? There’s a little of that, but the real CIA is more complex and interesting than you can imagine.

Videos

NHHEAF's Career Corner

Careers of the Future

Careers of the Future

Think about what career you might be interested in right now. Do you think there is anything that may change about that career in the future?

Careers are always changing and new careers are being created. If you could create a new career, what would it be? Think of a problem you want to solve to help you brainstorm!