TeachersFirst's Take Our Sons and Daughters to Work Day Resources
This collection of reviewed resources from TeachersFirst is selected to help students explore careers and ways to share what they learn from visiting their parent's work place on Take Our Sons and Daughters to Work Day or any other career visit. Make Take Our Sons and Daughters to Work Day an opportunity to connect the classroom with the real world and for students to share and collaborate about careers visits and educational trips. Make this a meaningful day ON instead of a "day off." Use these ideas to spark discussions about careers and planning for life.
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Working in Harmony - Country Music Association (CMA) and Discovery Education
Grades
2 to 12In the Classroom
As the activities are completed, engage students further by using Padlet, reviewed here to explain how the concepts in each actiivty could be applied to their favorite music genre. Ask them to comment on the ideas of their classmates, too! This is a link to Padlet's Help section for posting video or an image.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Real World Exploration - Amazon Future Engineer
Grades
K to 12tag(s): careers (140), coding (91), computers (110), engineering (125), STEM (274), virtual field trips (88)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of the free materials shared on this site to introduce and develop your students' computer science skills. Learn more about computer science by taking the professional development activities provided by Amazon Future Engineer. Use the timeline on the home page to select materials appropriate for your students and differentiate options for advanced students. Share the self-guided options with students interested in computer science careers and those who already understand coding and want to develop higher-level skills. Ask students to make simple explainer videos using AnyRec Screen Recorder, reviewed here, to show others how to create code. After taking virtual field trips to see the work of computer science engineers or participating in a class chat, ask students to explore other STEM careers. Find many ideas at these resources that include the career tag on TeachersFirst.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Those Amazing Engineers - Those Amazing Professions Inc
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): careers (140), engineering (125), STEM (274)
In the Classroom
Share this site with students as part of career exploration lessons. Instead of creating a list of sites to share with students, replace the list by saving bookmarks with Symbaloo, reviewed here, to make information easy to find and access. After researching the different engineering fields ask students to extend their learning and create a web page sharing a day in the life of their chosen field. Carrd, reviewed here, is a free webpage creation tool that provides many tools for professional-looking pages. Find many other resources to encourage creativity and engineering at TeachersFirst Makerspace Resources, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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STEM Behind Hollywood - Texas Instruments
Grades
4 to 10This site includes advertising.
tag(s): diseases (68), forensics (12), space (216), STEM (274)
In the Classroom
Pair this information and the related activities with classroom content, video clips, and data about related events (spreading of disease, space travel, etc.) Create discussions about various technologies, discoveries, and more to engage your students in the topics you are studying. Share the video clips on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Share this link on your class website for students to explore at home and learn more about how Hollywood uses science and math in film, television, and beyond. Include this site in a careers unit so students can see how science can lead to many different careers.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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For Women In Science - Loreal
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): engineering (125), STEM (274), women (140)
In the Classroom
Use this site when researching science careers and scientists to be sure to give women their turn and to inspire another generation of female scientists. Share the video clips on your projector or interactive whiteboard. Use this site during Women's history month. Challenge your students to learn more about present-day famous women in STEM careers and create their own interactive books. Have students use Ourboox, reviewed here. Ourboox creates beautiful page-flipping digital books in minutes, and you can embed video, music, animation, games, maps and more.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Stem Career - Rich Feller
Grades
7 to 12This site includes advertising.
In the Classroom
Share some of the infographics on your projector or interactive whiteboard. Allow time for students to search careers to report to the rest of the class using conventional or multimedia posters and other products. Use an online poster creator, such as Padlet, reviewed here. Include the skills required for the job, the education needed, and what that person does. Challenge students to create an advertisement for a STEM career they might enjoy.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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We Use Math - BYU Mathematics Department
Grades
6 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): biographies (95), careers (140), statistics (120)
In the Classroom
Challenge students to create a list of jobs requiring mathematics and see how many they can find that are provided on the site. Ask students to estimate average salaries of jobs listed on the site and compare to actual salaries. At Take Your Child to Work Day time, have students use this site to explore the connections between math and the careers they visit. Share this site with students when studying careers.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Women @ NASA - NASA
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): careers (140), scientists (63), space (216), STEM (274), women (140)
In the Classroom
Share this site with students when researching careers or space exploration. This is a perfect site for Women's History Month! There is plenty of information on the site for students to use as a model for researching career information. Challenge students to trace the life events of one of the women using an animated timeline tool like Time Graphics Timeline Maker, reviewed here. Describe events, display images, and embed videos at different points with this timeline tool. Be sure students share the location where their researched woman is originally from.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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CurriConnects Book List - What do you do? - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12tag(s): book lists (163), careers (140), reading lists (76)
In the Classroom
Build student literacy skills, reinforce what students are learning about Careers, and help students build the important reading strategy of connecting what they read to prior (classroom!) knowledge. Share this link on your class web page or wiki so students can select independent reading books to accompany your unit on careers. Don't forget to share the list with the school and local libraries so they can bring in some of the books on interlibrary loan. CurriConnects are a great help for teachers who have lost school library/media specialists due to budget cuts.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Engineer Girl - National Science Foundation and Berkeley
Grades
5 to 12tag(s): careers (140), engineering (125), STEM (274)
In the Classroom
Find and write about career opportunities as an exploration topic. Discover how many careers use engineering, math, and science and it is not just for boys anymore! Search for other possible engineering related careers and create interactive posters using Adobe Express for Education, reviewed here that informs others of the possibilities, or create using Sway, reviewed here to create interactive presentations across all devices. Have cooperative learning groups create multimedia presentations to share their findings such as an infomercial video using a tool such as Powtoon, reviewed here, or Clipchamp, reviewed here. Share the videos on a site such as TeacherTube, reviewed here. This resource is also terrific for girls spending the Take Your Child to Work Day at a STEM-related workplace. Have the young woman use her workplace visit experience and information from this site to share an interactive newsletter about a STEM career using a tool such as Sway, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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CareerZone Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Department of Education
Grades
7 to 12tag(s): careers (140)
In the Classroom
This site could be applied to any course. It could be invaluable to guidance classes, family and consumer sciences, and business courses. This would be a great introductory lab for any of those classes as well as others. Demonstrate on an interactive whiteboard or projector and then have students work on individual computers to take the survey. Have students access the site and complete the survey and do a simple research into three different possibilities. Then have students reflect on the careers that surprised them as well as the ones with which they thought they would want to do. Have students create "a day in the life" blog entries related to a day on the job of one of the careers suited for them. Use Penzu, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Community Club - Scholastic
Grades
K to 3In the Classroom
Use this site to help your students understand the concepts of community and community helpers. Use your interactive whiteboard or projector to share these useful people with your class. Highlight a career each week (or day) during a unit about community. Divide students into 8 groups (2-3 students per group) and have each group learn about a different career. Have the groups create simple PowerPoint presentations with the free Microsoft PowerPoint Online, reviewed here, to share with the class on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Remember that PowerPoint shows print well into "big books." Extend your "community" by creating a class wiki about your school community, complete with digital pictures and interviews! If you want to learn more about wikis, check out the TeachersFirst Wiki Walk-Through.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Center for Distance Learning & Innovation Guidance Room - Centre for Distance Learning and Innovation
Grades
9 to 12tag(s): careers (140), psychology (67)
In the Classroom
College and career planning cause significant angst among high school students. While none of what is posted on the site will tell students what they ought to do or where they ought to go, they will certainly provide some good insight and can help open a dialogue about these important choices. These activities should not be limited to the guidance counselors, but can be used in other classroom contexts with high school students. Be sure to provide this link on your class website for families to explore together.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Career OneStop - U.S. Department of Labor and American Job Center
Grades
9 to 12In the Classroom
Have students identify a possible career for their own future and create a class Padlet, reviewed here or a wiki such as PBWorks, reviewed here, displaying the many career choices of your students. Not familiar with wikis? Check out the TeachersFirst Wiki Walk-Through. Post a link to this resource on your class webpage for students to access at home.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Life Works - National Institutes of Health
Grades
9 to 12In the Classroom
Use this site to motivate your students who enjoy science. Post a link on your classroom website for students (and parents) to access at home.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Careers in Statistics - American Statistical Association
Grades
9 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): careers (140), statistics (120)
In the Classroom
This is a great addition to math class. Show students how math is used in "real jobs." Put a link on your class website for students (and parents) to view at home.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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My Future - Department of Defense
Grades
9 to 12In the Classroom
Be sure to share this site with students when investigating possible career choices! Put it on your class website for students (and parents) to explore at home.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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What Can You Do With a Major In...
Grades
9 to 12In the Classroom
Counselors and career advisors alike will appreciate the information offered by this site. Post the site on the school web page, and refer it to students who are beginning the search of what to do after high school. Some of the information is geared towards post-under graduate students, but the career counseling is still helpful to those who want to look for jobs rather than higher education. Perhaps seeing the scarcity of jobs available without higher education will motivate students to pursue college after all!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Princeton Review Online
Grades
8 to 12In the Classroom
Provide this link on your class (or school) website. Have students explore their "top choice" of a possible career and create interactive online posters using Marq (formerly Lucidpress), reviewed here, to share with the class.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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