K-5th Career Sites

k-3rd - Introduce Occupations 4th - 5th - Career Awareness

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4Kids
This site catalogs fun and safe sites for children to visit on the web, many of which have career and career awareness information.

Arthur
Visit this site to see if Arthur has any career awareness activities.

Educator's Reference Desk
In depth site for teachers containing business and technology resources, as well as other subject areas. In addition, the site contains excellent teacher resources and lesson plans.

Blue Web'n Learning Sites Library
Web based activities and web based projects as well as unit and lesson plans can be accessed for Business, Technology, and other Career and Technical Education areas. This is an excellent site to explore for a variety of career awareness activities.

Can Teach
Elementary resources for personal planning. Also, contains hundreds of other lesson plans and links for elementary teachers. 

Career Development Activities and Vocational Lesson Plans
Vocational Information Center - career activities and vocational lesson plans.

Career Related Student Worksheet
Vocational Information Center - student career printable worksheets

College Career Life Planning
Free resources and tools for education, career, and life planning to help students make informed choices about their futures.

Discovery School
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of web sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. The site contains career lesson plans and extensive lesson plans for all subject areas.

Disney Online - What Do You Want To Be?
An introduction to career awareness activities for students with four ways to help them choose a career including Shadowing, Kids, Inc., Factory Field Trip, and Great Explorations.

Education World
An excellent educational site for all subject area teachers, including careers and technology. The site includes the following information: current educational issues, subject centers, educational resource and feature areas, lesson planning assistance, and teacher-created lesson plans.

Ehow
Web site of "HOW TOs". The Careers/Education section contains 4 major categories for information on career lesson planning.

FirstGov for Kids
Career web links for students.

Great Sites
After searching 50,000 web sites, nine of the nation's top librarians found 700 they recommend as great for kids. Visit the American Library Association web site and follow the links. Many of these web sites have career and career awareness sections.

Kids At National Geographic
Weird, Wacky, Wild - odd jobs are everywhere. This site has a talk board related to unusual jobs.

Little Explorers by Enchanted Learning Software
This site offers a picture dictionary for young elementary or preschool students. Students can develop career awareness by clicking on an icon such as policeman and learning more.

Magic School Bus Fun Place
Visit the bus and meet Ms. Frizzle who is always taking students on a fun field trip. This offers many opportunities for career discussion.

Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Site offers features online which from time to time highlights community helpers to develop career awareness among young elementary students.

My Hero
Hero stories to review with pictures offer students the opportunity to research careers and the path their hero took to get there.

PacificNet
Teacher-created list of educational resources including career planning and other subject area links.

Searching for China: A Full Web Quest
Join a team and take on the role of foreign investor, human rights worker, museum curator, anthropologist, state senator or religious leader in "Searching for China". Students will work together to create a special report for the American people as they experience a career role and learn more about this complex country.

Successlink
New lessons added every day many of which contain scoring guides. There are searchable lesson plans for all subjects areas including career education for all elementary grade levels. 

Teachers.net
This comprehensive site has a database of K-12 career lesson plans as well as other subject area lesson plans, chatboards, a reference desk, curricula, and columns.

Tech Prep Lessons
Educational web site containing interdisciplinary lesson plans for all Tech Prep subject areas.

Yahooligans
Educational and career resources for children and links to other related web sites.