Peculiar Elementary School

Counseling Lesson Plan

Lesson Title: Careers A-Z

Grade Level: K-2
Big Idea:
CD7. Applying Career Exploration and Planning Skills in
the Achievement of Life Career Goals
Grade Level Expectations:
K- Identify workers in the school and in families related to
the 6 career paths; recognize that all work is important
1 Identify workers in the local community related to the
6 career paths; explain the imprtane of jobs in the family
and school.
2 Identify new activities and interests to explore;
explain the importance of jobs and workers in the
community.
ASCA National Standards:
C:A1.2 Learn about the variety of traditional and non
traditional occupations
C:B1.6 Learn to use the Itnernet to access career-
planning information.
Learning Objective:
-I can identify a variety of careers
Materials Needed:
-Computer (Small Potatoes video K; Career Day and
Paws In Jobland 1st and 2nd Grade)
-Name that Career and Career Bubbles Worksheets
-Crayons/Markers
Formative Assessment:
Kindergarten students will be given clues to a specific
career and will have to use those clues to identify what
the career is. They will also be given a letter of the
alphabet and they will have to come up with a career that
starts with that letter; 1st and 2nd Grade students will take
a career interest survey and explore jobs based on the
results of their survey
Lesson Preparation:
Essential Questions:
1. What careers can you identify?
2. What are the job roles and responsibilities for specific
careers
Engagement/Hook:
Students will watch the video Small Potatoes (K) and
Career Day (1st and 2nd)
Instructional Procedures:
Counselor(s):
1. Counselor will explain to students that our topic for
today is careers
2. Counselor will ask students to answer essential
questions listed above.
3. Counselor will inform students that they are going to
watch a video about careers.
4. After the video, counselor will engage students in a
discussion about the video and the various careers that
they saw that they could identify.
5. Counselor will then explain the activity to the students.
- Kindergarten students will receive a worksheet with
4 clues on it about careers. They will have to use the
clues to identify the career that it matches.
- Kindergarten students will then receive a bubble
with a letter typed in the middle of it. They will have to
come up with a career that starts with that letter and
draw a picture of it in the bubble.
- 1st and 2nd grade students will explore in the
internet career website titled Paws in Jobland. 2nd grade
students will be instructed to first take the career
inventory quiz and then explore that jobs that match the
results of their quiz.
Students:
1.Students will listen as counselor explains the topic for
the day.
2. Students will participate in the discussion about the
essential questions listed above.
3. Students will watch the career videos
4. Students will participate in the video discussion.
5. Students will complete their activity based on grade
level:
-Kindergarten careers clues and career bubbles
-1st and 2nd grade Paws in Jobland