6-8th Grade
Career Awareness & Exploration Resources
Job Families
Groups of occupations based upon work performed, skills, education, training, and credentials.
Under each Job Family, resources are provided on in-demand or local occupations for student exploration. Local and relevant resources will continue to be added to these pages.
Occupations (in large blue font) and Career Pathways (black font) as defined by O*Net are listed for each source, either under the video or hyperlinked individually.
Knowledge Check: Engineering, technology, design, and mathematics
Knowledge Check: Communications, media, fine arts, customer and personal service or computers and electronics
Knowledge Check: Customer and personal service and equipment operation
Knowledge Check: Mathematics, law and government, economics and accounting, administrative and clerical procedures, and customer and personal service
Knowledge Check: customer and personal service, psychology, sociology and anthropology, therapy, counseling, and education or training
Knowledge Check: mathematics, computers, and electronics
Knowledge Check: mathematics, machines and tools, building, construction, design or public safety and security
Knowledge Check: education, training, and customer and personal service
Knowledge Check: machines and tools, mathematics, biology, or production
Knowledge Check: mathematics, customer and personal service, sales and marketing, and food production
Knowledge Check: medicine, dentistry, biology, psychology, mathematics, customer and personal service
Knowledge Check: customer and personal service, clerical procedures, biology, medicine or dentistry
Knowledge Check: machines and tools, engineering and technology, public safety and security, and mathematics
Knowledge Check: law and government, and customer and personal service
Knowledge Check: mathematics, and geography, engineering, technology, biology or chemistry
Knowledge Check: mathematics, economics and accounting, computers and electronics, administration and management, sales and marketing, personnel and human resources, customer and personal service, or education and training
Knowledge Check: knowledge, skills, location, mission and service commitments vary greatly
Knowledge Check: computers and electronics, mathematics, administrative and clerical procedures, and customer and personal service
Knowledge Check: psychology, education and training, economics and accounting, or customer and personal service
Knowledge Check: production and processing, machines and tools, or mathematics
Knowledge Check: public safety and security, customer and personal service, law and government or psychology
Knowledge Check: sales and marketing, customer and personal service, and mathematics
Knowledge Check: mathematics, transportation, public safety and security, machines and tools, or customer and personal service