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Elementary Level Career Resources - Compiled by the Career Resource Network ND Department of Career and Technical Education 600 East Boulevard ...
Elementary Level
Career Resources

     Compiled by the Career Resource Network
  ND Department of Career and Technical Education
  600 East Boulevard Ave, Bismarck ND 58505-0610
       (701) 328-9733        www.nd.gov/cte
Elementary Level Career Resources - Compiled by the Career Resource Network ND Department of Career and Technical Education 600 East Boulevard ...
Grade
      Product                                                          Comments
                                     Level
50 Odd Jobs                          Ages 12+   Michael Rosen, Fifty Odd Jobs: A Wild and Wacky Rhyming
                                                Guide to One-of-a-Kind Careers
(Children’s Book)
                                                No longer in print. Available at:
                                                http://www.alibris.com/search/books/qwork/62193/used/
                                                50%20Odd%20Jobs:%20A%20Wild%20and%20Wacky%20R
                                                hyming%20Guide%20to%20One-Of-A-Kind%20Careers

Career Bingo                          PK-8      Marco Product
                                                Bingo I – PK-3:
                                                http://marcoproducts.stores.yahoo.net/careerbingoi.html
                                                Bingo II - 4-8:
                                                http://marcoproducts.stores.yahoo.net/carbiniigam.html

Career Critters                        1-2      Career Critters is a 15-lesson career program for early
                                                elementary students. Each student receives a reproducible
                                                booklet that includes a story and activity pages. Divided
                                                into 15 Career Clusters.
                                                www.marcoproducts.com/careercritters.html

Career                                Elem      Downloadable Guidance Lesson Plans from the Missouri
                                                Center for Career Education
Development                                     http://www.missouricareereducation.org/project/guidelsn
Lesson Plans
                    Lesson Plans
Career Game                             5       Explorer begins by asking questions that help students
                                                recognize the thoughts, feelings and events that hold clues
Explorer Edition                                to their future. Includes a series of color-coded activities
                                                designed to identify individual personality types.
                                                Rick Trow Productions
                                                www.careergame.com

Career                                 3-6      Quia pioneered the "create-your-own" concept, giving
                                                instructors the ability to create customized educational
Hangman                                         software online, built around their own course materials
                                                and made available to students over the Internet. In Career
                                                Hangman, a student can guess the letters in a hidden word
                                                or phrase.
                    Career Hangman              Quia Product
                                                http://www.quia.com/hm/13600.html

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Grade
      Product                                                        Comments
                                   Level
Careers Are                                   Careers are everywhere. Children start the process of
                                              exploring the world of work as early as the elementary
Everywhere!                                   grades. With each class they take, with each life
Activity                                      experience, they gain a greater awareness of the nature of
                                              work and begin to form ideas about their future career
Workbook                                      roles.

                                              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://www.pacareerstandards.com/documents/curriculu
                                              m-resources/careers-are-everywhere-workbook.pdf
Careers for Me                       3-9      This paper-pencil assessment encourages students to think
                                              about their interests to guide them towards careers.
                                              http://careerkids.com/
                                              Careers for Me II- 3-7
                                              http://www.careerkids.com/product-WCM25.html
                                              Careers for Me Plus – 6-9
                                              http://www.careerkids.com/product-WCMP25.html
Cashmere if You                    Ages 5-8   Wawa Hohhot, Cashmere if You Can

Can                                           Lavishly illustrated book from HarperCollins Publishers
(Children’s Book)                             follows the misadventures of Wawa Hohhot and her family
                                              of Mongolian cashmere goats who just happen to live on
                                              the roof of Saks's Midtown Manhattan store.
Elementary                          Elem      Career Tools for Teachers
                                              K-12 Career Resources
Lesson                                        http://pages.minot.k12.nd.us/votech/File/tcorn.htm#elem
Plans/Activities                              ent
- Minot             Career Tools
                    for Teachers
E-WOW:                               K-5      After completing E-WOW, students will be able to identify
                                              job activities, the job cluster concept, job titles, and the
Explore the                                   process of exploring, researching, and comparing jobs.
World of Work                                 CFKR Product
                                              http://www.cfkr.com/search.html
                                              Administrator’s Guide:
                                              http://www.cfkr.com/downloads/ewowmanual.pdf
                                              Preview:
                                              http://www.cfkr.com/productpreviews/ewowprev.html
I Got                              Ages 4-8   Melrose Cooper, I Got Community

Community                                     A young girl describes, in rhyming verse, how members of
(Children’s Book)                             her community make her feel loved.

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Grade
      Product                                         Comments
                    Level
Job-O E               5-6      Designed for upper elementary, lower middle school
                               students and designed to increase students' awareness of
(Elementary                    their interests and how they may relate to future careers.
Version)                       CFKR Product
                               http://www.cfkr.com/search.html
                               Preview:
                               http://www.cfkr.com/productpreviews/jobo_e.html
                               User Manual:
                               http://www.cfkr.com/downloads/jobo_man.pdf
LAM (Looking at        4       Inventory on self-esteem but also talks about goal-setting
                               and decision making. It goes through good communication
Myself)                        skills, has them look at their interests in things such as
                               leadership, creativity, community service, and sports. They
                               rate themselves in these areas.
                               CFKR Product
                               http://www.cfkr.com/catalog/elemiddle.html#Anchor-
                               Lookin-19102
                               Preview:
                               http://www.cfkr.com/productpreviews/lam1.html
O*NET OnLine         Elem      Excellent graphs, no passwords, written at 3-5 grade level.
                               http://online.onetcenter.org/

Paws in Jobland      Elem      Paws in Jobland inspires students to learn more about
                               themselves and the people in their neighborhood as they
                               explore over 100 different careers.

                               Coming soon to the programs available at
                               www.RUReadyND.com! (Early 2014)

Roberto the         Ages 4-8   Nina Laden, Roberto the Insect Architect

Insect Architect               A termite named Roberto pursues his dream of becoming
(Children’s Book)              an architect and travels to the big city where he hopes to
                               find success. This funny and inspirational story will
                               encourage viewers of any age to build their dreams.

When I Grow Up      Ages 4-6   Colin McNaughton, When I Grow Up
(Children’s Book)
                               Spaceman or soccer pro, candy-store owner or the queen
                               herself — the sky's the limit when Colin McNaughton's
                               imaginative cast of kids act out what they'd like to be when
                               they grow up.

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Grade
    Product                                 Comments
              Level
Workplace      K-8    Specially-designed elementary and middle school
                      programs help students see the relevance of teamwork,
Learning              reading, good listening skills and math by showing them
Connection            how these skills are used in the workplace.
                      http://www.kirkwood.edu/wplc
                      http://www.kirkwood.edu/site/index.php?p=19587

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