Elementary and Middle School Career Activities Resource List
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Elementary and Middle School Career Activities Resource List
- Careers in movies - “Who is your favorite character in a movie or a book?” “What does that person do for a living?”“What’s their job or career?” “Think of your favorite person in the world. What do they for a living?” “Can we think of other jobs and careers that we see around us?”
- Would You Rather?
- Movement for students (physically have to move to where they would want to go)
- Questions related to career
- e.g. Would you rather sit at a desk or be moving all day?
- This would help students recognize that if they enjoy sitting, an office job/career may be better for them then (for instance) being a Zumba instructor.
- Based from
- Oregon Career Guidance: http://gearup.ous.edu/sites/default/files/Publications/MiddleSchoolParentGuide.pdf
- Career Planning Worksheet:
- Career Smarts - videogame like career planning adventure
- Career Investigation:
- Career Café
- Students able to meet with professionals from the community.
- Crosswords of careers related to different fields
- e.g. art career crossword
- Facebook Profile for your Future:
- Relates to current social media, can also open up the discussion to what is safe to post.
- Online interest/career quiz:
- Career Alphabet: have students come up with different careers that start with different letters.
- Album Covers of Careers
- Each student picks a career and is then responsible for designing an album cover that will give enough information/context for someone to look at and understand what that position is about.
- Think periodic table but of careers
- Inspired by:
- A Roadmap to College
- Career and College Clubs
- Middle School kit:
- SASS - E Girls - Science focused careers - http://ico.osu.edu/SWE.html
- Drive of your life - video game withcareer focus
- Able to choose your own vehicle, own path, etc.
- Career Clusters for Jeopardy
- 16 fields
- Websites with multiple resources
- Goal setting lesson - Using “Oh the Places You’ll Go!” to help identify goals students can have to help them get to the places they’ll go!
- Cooperation activity - Team Challenge - All students can only use one hand. As a group complete the following activities
- Build a tower out of straws/cards/popsicle sticks as high as you can
- Relates to architecture, creativity, building
- Spell out a word with your bodies
- Relates to movement, dance, English, reading (for those who want to write and direct their own stage productions)
- Transport all the balls from one bucket to another - but no one can go twice
- Relates to Math and logic skills, transportation
- Goals with this activity - interactively work together to discover different options related to careers.
- Talk with class after the activity/worksheet - Were some people better at one thing than another? Give an example. What was one thing you were great at? What is a job that you think you could use what you are great at?
- Pretest - What is one thing you are great at? What is a job where you could use what you are great at?
- Career Aisle - Exploring careers online: