Third Grade Classroom Guidance Lesson
Submitted By: Claire Murphy, Ed. S
Title of Lesson: “Career Internet Resources and Career Bingo: Tools for Learning about
Careers”
Grade Level: 3
Time Required: 30-45 Minutes
Domain: Career Development
ASCA National Standard(s): A: Students will acquire the skills to investigate the world
of work in relation to knowledge of self and to make informed career decisions. B:
Students will employ strategies to achieve future career goals with success and
satisfaction.
Competencies Addressed: A:1 Develop Career Awareness (C:A1.1 Develop skills to
locate, evaluate, and interpret career information); B:1 Acquire Career Information
(C:B1.4 Know the various ways in which occupations can be classified; C:B1.6 Learn to
use the internet to access career planning information).
Essential Questions: What is a career? How can careers be classified or clustered
together? How can I use the internet to obtain career information?
Materials/Resources: Career Pre/Post Tests; Counselor created “Career Bingo and Internet
Resources” power point; pencils; Career Bingo picture page; Career Bingo playing cards; LCD
projector; computer; internet access; scissors; glue sticks; bingo markers; internet resources
www.thefutureschannel.com; http://www.bls.gov/k12/;
http://www.acinet.org/videos_by_occupation.asp?id=&nodeid=28;
http://thefunworks.edc.org/SPT--homegraphic.php
Activities:
1. Greet students and review procedures for this lesson.
2. Show Lesson Agenda via Power Point. The remainder of this lesson is also on power
point.
3. Distribute Career pretest. (Note: You may wish to ask the classroom teachers to
administer the pre test during morning work before your scheduled lesson and they
can also give the posttest).
4. Ask the essential questions above and discuss answers.
5. Distribute copies of Career Bingo picture page and Career Bingo Game Card to each
student. Read each career name aloud. Ask students to look at the pictures and
decide if any of them might be “clustered or grouped together”. Take answers and
rationale.
6. Using the internet, explore 3-4 careers with the class. I also post these web sites on
our Counselor blog so that students can access them at another time.
7. Have students cut the pictures out and glue randomly on their Career Bingo cards so
that all cards are different.
8. Distribute bingo markers.
9. Use an extra copy of the Career Bingo Pictures page to call out careers during the
bingo game. Play the game as time allows.
10. Distribute Career Post Test (or ask the teachers to give it after your visit).
11. Evaluation/Assessment: Students will create Career Bingo cards; Students will
complete Career pre/posttests:
Total A = # of correct pretest answers/# of students
Total B = # of correct posttest answers/# of students
% Improvement = B-A/A
Example: Total A: 20 students get 100 correct on the pretest (100/20 = 5)
Total B: same 20 students get 180 correct on the posttest (180/20 =9)
% Improvement = 9-5/5 = 80%!!
Name_____________________________
Third Grade Pre/Post Test on Tools for Learning About Careers
1. A word that means the same as the word “Career” is:
a. Hobby
b. Job
c. Escape
d. Fun
2. Careers that are similar can be grouped together by:
a. The tools they use
b. The education required
c. The kind of work involved
d. All of these answers are correct
3. I believe it is important to start thinking about the job I may have as a grown up now.
a. Strongly Agree
b. Agree
c. Disagree
d. Strongly Disagree
4. I believe doing well in school will help me later in my career.
a. Agree
b. Disagree
c. Strongly Disagree
d. Strongly Agree
5. Two good ways to learn facts about careers are:
a. Look at the newspaper and play video games
b. Read books and listen to music
c. Use the computer and look at newspapers
d. None of these answers is correct
6. I am able to find career information by using the computer.
a. I’m very good at this
b. I’m somewhat good at this
c. I’m not good at this
d. I would not even try!
7. Mary says she wants to make necklaces when she grows up to earn money. What career
cluster is she thinking about trying?
a. Art & design cluster
b. Education cluster
c. Entertainment cluster
d. Health cluster
Name: _____________________________
Career Bingo Game Card
Free
Career Bingo Pictures
Pilot
Doctor
Vet
Athlete
Nurse
Farmer
Scientist
Teacher
Mechanic
Artist
Firefighte
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Grocer
Chef
Police
Officer
Racer
Builder
Archeologist
Dentist
Sales
Military
Politics
Designer
Engineer
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Banker