Career Exploration

Explore careers in space. What does an Astronaut do?

How do we study marine mammals? How can I pursue a career involving marine mammals?

A resource for kids, parents, and teachers to find fun and educational materials related to health, science, and the environment we live in today.

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.

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.

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.

DiscoverE offers a growing number of hands-on activities, videos, and other resources that volunteers, parents, and students can use to explore engineering. The site also introduces national engineering outreach programs.

One of the best business games, because it is user friendly and helps kids learn how to make their own personal coffee shop grow. All you have to do is name your cafe, and you're in business!

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.

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.

Click on different careers for explanations on what they do

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.

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. The program includes an alphabetized job list, interest inventory, and summative quiz for students to take as well.

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.

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