Developmental Guidance
Career Lesson--6th-7th
grade
To learn about careers
through experimentation and activitiesÑbased on HollandÕs RIASEC model.
Written description of each
career grouping
Sewing supplies (thread,
fabric, needles, buttons)
Paper
Pencils
Stuffed animal
One-page story with errors
Puzzle
Cookies & juice
Divide students into six
groups in six areas of the room.
Each group will be at a station representing each career grouping. Each group spends 5-10 minutes at each
station doing the task that is required.
Groups will rotate so that all students get an opportunity to visit each
station. This can be done in one
60-minute lesson or be broken down into two 30-minute lessons.
The tasks at each station:
Students eat cookies and
drink juice, while discussing the subject written on the card by
teacher/counselor for the entire time they are at the station (ideas for card:
current events, school policies, etc.)
Students choose any object
from the classroom and work together to come up with a commercial or campaign
to sell the product.
Students in this station
individually proofread a short story with many spelling and grammatical errors
(may need many copies of this so students can write on the paper).
Students draw a stuffed
animal (or another object used as a model).
Students sew a button on a
piece of fabric.
Students work as a group to
put together a puzzle without talking.
At end of lesson, students
will write what they liked best and what they liked the least about each
activity.
Students clean up last
station they were at. Give the
class an opportunity to share their reactions to the activities.
A possible assignment might
be for students to further research the career cluster they liked most and come
up with some jobs that fit into that group of careers.
Submitted by: Melanie
Parkinson
Professional
School Counseling Program
Minnesota
State University, Mankato
Interning
2002-2003
Highwood
Hills Elementary School (Saint Paul, MN)
Harding
High School (Saint Paul, MN)