In elementary school, children can develop these skills:
- Identify their interests, likes and dislikes.
- Describe their strengths and talents.
- Demonstrate positive behaviors and personal characteristics, such as honesty, dependability, responsibility, integrity and loyalty.
- Recognize that one should accept responsibility for one’s behavior. 5. Interact with others in a fair, helpful and respectful way.
- Recognize that people have many life roles and that these need to be balanced.
- Demonstrate study skills and good learning habits.
- Be able to set goals and work toward achieving them.
- Describe different ways to make decisions.
- Recognize a variety of skills that are important for success in school and work, such as communicating, critical thinking, problem solving and interpersonal skills.
Source: National Career Development Guidelines
- Paws in Jobland (RUReady.ND.gov)
- Student Access
- Visit www.RUReady.ND.gov and click on the Elementary School role in the "Who are you?" section.
- Paws in Jobland can be used by students at individual workstations or as a group activity in the classroom.
- Professional Resources
- Student Access
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Grade Level |
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Books |
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Cashmere if You Can - Wawa Hohhot How Santa Got His Job – Stephen Krensky Roberto the Insect Architect – Nina Laden When I Grow Up – Colin McNaughton Whose Hat Is This? – Sharon Katz Cooper Whose Tools Are These? – Sharon Katz Cooper |
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Career Development Lesson Plans |
K-12 |
Downloadable Guidance Lesson Plans from the Missouri Center for Career Education |
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Career Game Explorer Edition |
5-7 |
Explorer begins by asking questions that help students recognize the thoughts, feelings and events that hold clues to their future. Includes a series of color-coded activities designed to identify individual personality types. |
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Career Hangman (Online) |
3-6 |
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Career Kids |
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Careers Are Everywhere! Activity Workbook |
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The activities in this workbook are intended to be fun and challenging. They have been designed around the building blocks of the elementary National Career Development Guidelines with the goal of raising career awareness. http://breitlinks.com/careers/career_pdfs/CareerActivitiesBook.pdf |
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Khake |
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| Lesson Plan | 6 |
Tootsie Roll™, Tootsie Roll™, Who Art Thou? (Who Am I as a Career?) Lesson Goal: |
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Marco Career Education Products |
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Career Bingo, Career Bingo, and more. http://marcoproducts.com/elementary-materials/career-education/ |
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Workplace Learning Connection |
K-8 |
Specially-designed elementary and middle school programs help students see the relevance of teamwork, reading, good listening skills and math by showing them how these skills are used in the workplace. |