South Dakota Teachers As Advisors
Cluster Cards
6-8th Grades Career Exploration Lesson 2
Essential Questions: How do all the career clusters make-up the American and International
workforce? Are all the career clusters essential? Are you familiar with the clusters your family
and friends are interested in?
Stage 1—Desired Results
STANDARD(S): C:A1.1 Develop skills to locate, evaluate, and interpret career information
C:A1.4 Learn how to interact and work cooperatively in teams
C:A1.9 Develop hobbies and vocational interests
C:B1.5 Use research and information resources to obtain career information.
C:B1.6 Learn to use the Internet to access career planning information
C:C1.3 Indentify personal preferences and interests influencing career choice and
success
C:C2.3 Learn to work cooperatively with others as a team member
Stage 2—Assessment Evidence & Learning Plan
Materials needed:
Poster board; cluster cards template;
markers; Skittles; scissors; laptop; dice
Introduction
Time: 15 minutes
Making the Connection
Checking Understanding
Higher Order Thinking
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South Dakota Teachers As Advisors
Instruction
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Students will receive a poster board to design a game pattern with 25 spaces. The games will
have a start and a finish space. The game board is to be in color and drawn with marker. They
are to work on this project in groups of 3 or 4.
Students will cut out the Career Cluster Card Game template. As a group students are to come
up with 10 additional career cluster questions and answers.
Students will come up with their own objects to use as game pieces and come up with a section
on the game board to put the career cluster game cards.
Students will come up with their game card questions from the SDMyLife and/or
healthedventure.org (Career Tab) websites.
Students may use Skittles as tokens for getting questions right and put tokens back if they get
the questions wrong. The game ends when each person has crossed the finish line. The student
with the most tokens at the end of the game wins. To move on the game board students will
roll a dice.
The student groups will play their game and then exchange with another group.
Time: 60 minutes
Closure/Wrap Up
Students will be able to identify the 16 Career Clusters and some examples of careers in each cluster.
They will be able to see how each cluster is essential to the American and International workforce.
Students will share their interests in certain clusters and how their families relate to the clusters.
Extension Activites:
Students may view and perform career cluster enrichment activities on the healthedventure.org website
(Career Tab).
Making the Connection
Checking Understanding
Higher Order Thinking
Handout