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“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” ~ Confucius
BizKid$ (3rd thrugh 6th Grade)
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. They are also given advice from other characters in the game. Complexity of the game and vocabulary may be more applicable for older elementary students.
Career Hangman (1st thru 5th Grade) -- On this site, a student can guess the letters in a hidden word or phrase relating to career education
Career Exploration for Younger Students (K thru 5th Grade) -- This site provides a variety of career resources that are organized based on activities and desired objectives, such as career guides and activities for kids. elementary career curriculum guides, career coloring books, and so much more.
Career Aware II Catch the Bug—Career Awareness for Elementary Students (2nd thru 4th Grade) -- Meet Caleb, the career bug! Just like his antennae makes him aware of things around him, he’ll help students develop “career antennae” for discovering the thousands of career opportunities in our big world! Let’s go!
Energy Kids (1st thru 5th Grade) -- 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. A teacher's guide is provided for guiding students on this site.
Family Tree of Careers (2nd thru 4th Grade) -- This printable tree diagram includes places for children to document the careers of various relatives as they conduct an interview with one or more family members. It can be used as a fun, meaningful, and beneficial aspect of the process of children’s exploration of the work world.
Kids Work! (3rd thru 5th Grade) -- This interactive site allows students to explore interesting jobs in a virtual community of workplace. They will have the opportunity to explore the history of a particular type of workplace, such as a hospital, using a timeline; meet real life professionals and learn about their jobs in that particular workplace; play three job fun activities that shows how school work relates to real work; and explore real work places.
Kids National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (K thru 5th Grade) -- This site provides great educational resources and activities to help students learn more about the career fields in environmental health sciences.
National Geographic Kids (3rd & 4th Grade)-- This website includes short videos that expose students to the world of science and nature; more importantly, they can provide students with insight into the kinds of things that are involved in the pursuit of a career in science and nature.
Thrively (3rd-6th Grade) -- Every student has a genius – that combination of passion and unique strengths in which they absolutely thrive. It's Thrively's mission to uncover that genius in everyone! This site provides a Strength Assessment to get an uplifting strength profile of the student, as well as enriching career activities and eye-opening videos, which are all personalized to the student's unique strengths.
Who R U? -- What type of career is best for you? Find out by taking this career family survey.
Career Town (K thru 5th Grade) -- 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 educators guide for each "level' of the game. The educators guide has ideas of how you can utilize the game to meet standards and includes ideas for extension activities.
Career VIEW (K thru 5th Grade) -- This site provides elementary career worksheets/lessons, activities, and more for each grade level.
CIA KidsZone (K thru 5th Grade) -- This website helps students understand what the Central Intelligence Agency does and how they do it. It provides links to help students learn about the CIA, the various jobs available in the CIA, and how to become a CIA expert. It also provides fun stories and games.
Exploring Career Clusters in Elementary Toolkit (K thru 3rd Grade) -- This toolkit focuses on introducing career clusters to younger students. The resources inthis toolkit are designed to promote fun, interactive ways to learn about career clusters at the elementary level.
Kids.gov—Career Awareness Videos
K thru 5th Grade) -- This site provides a resource of videos and games for elementary students related to all types of jobs in the U.S.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- NASA for Kids (K thru 6th Grade) This site includes videos and articles that expose students to the world of science in regard to space exploration. There are not any materials on the site that are expressly meant to serve as career guidance tools, but the available materials can serve to inform students’ understandings of the subject matter that is involved in space exploration.
PAWS in Jobland (1st & 2nd Grade) -- In this interactive program, students are taken to Jobland, where they may click on buildings to find out what kinds of professionals work within them. Paws the Dog acts as a sort of tour guide and chimes in with questions and comments as students listen to professionals speak about their job descriptions. The program includes an alphabetized job list, interest inventory, and summative quiz for students to take as well. Although this program includes a wealth of information about each job featured in Jobland, the goal of the program seems to be more oriented around fostering the students’ understanding of where certain professionals work and what those professionals look like.
Using career profiles and 360 video, Let's Go! CAREERS brings students virtually inside the work environment, especially in areas that need skilled workers.
Career Capture (5th-8th Grades) -- This site targets girls interested in technology careers.
CIA 6-12 Grade -- This website has fun games and information about careers in federal government.
An interactive site about the career field of engineering showcasing career profiles, career facts, video activities, problem-solving scenarios, games, and downloads.
Energy Kids -- Information about energy, careers and fun games are all located here.
Engineer Girl -- This site is designed to bring national attention to the exciting opportunities that engineering represents for girls and women.
Explore interesting jobs in a variety of virtual workplaces.
National Aeronautics Space Administration
NASA for 5-8 Kids—provides great activities and games to learn more about careers inthe aerospace field.
Own Your Own Future -- Start owning your own future by exploring resources that will help you on your path to college. The whole site is organized by grade to make sure you get the exact info you need. So that's where we begin...
This interactive site explores career information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Workforce Solutions is proud to make the "When I Grow Up" educational program available to you at no charge. This mini-unit can be used in conjunction with your school's career day or done in the classroom. Each lesson includes the audience type, time allotment, level of Bloom's Taxonomy and the TEKS that apply. The mini-unit is designed to be flexible so you can use and customize the lessons that best suit your instructional needs.
Who R U? -- What type of career is best for you? Find out by taking this career family survey.
Your Work Cut Out for You -- A lesson plan on career planning.
Career Ship - an online Career Exploration Adventure. Visit a featured career, match careers to your interests, review and search careers by clusters.
Engineer Girl -- This site is designed to bring national attention to the exciting opportunities that engineering represents for girls and women.
National Aeronautics Space Administration
NASA for 9-12 Kids—provides great activities and games to learn more about careers inthe aerospace field.
Own Your Own Future -- Start owning your own future by exploring resources that will help you on your path to college. The whole site is organized by grade to make sure you get the exact info you need. So that's where we begin...
This interactive site explores career information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Workforce Solutions is proud to make the "When I Grow Up" educational program available to you at no charge. This mini-unit can be used in conjunction with your school's career day or done in the classroom. Each lesson includes the audience type, time allotment, level of Bloom's Taxonomy and the TEKS that apply. The mini-unit is designed to be flexible so you can use and customize the lessons that best suit your instructional needs.
Who R U? -- What type of career is best for you? Find out by taking this career family survey.
Your Work Cut Out for You -- A lesson plan on career planning.