Students explore jobs by noticing what they like, the tools and tasks people use, and the ways different workers help others solve everyday problems. Through hands-on career stations, partner talk, and conversations with family or community guests, they practice asking questions, listening carefully, and sharing their ideas with others. Over four weeks, they create and revise a simple career poster and short talk that show a connection between their interests, the world around them, and a job they want to learn more about.

Students will practice speaking and listening by asking and answering questions about jobs, things they like, and ways people help solve problems. They will choose a career, name a tool or task used in that job, and show one way that job helps people or the world around them. Students will make and improve a simple career poster or short talk by using partner feedback, including one question and one strength, with teacher support. They will share their ideas during the Community Career Walk and add a drawing, sentence, or caption to reflect on a career that matches their interests or a problem they want to solve.

Students will create drawings, picture labels, and simple question cards during the Career Kickoff Carousel to show careers, tools, tasks, and ideas that stand out to them. Across the project, they will make and revise a student-made career poster with a chosen job, a tool or task from that job, and one way it helps people or solves a problem, using partner feedback after share-pairs. They will also add a drawing with a dictated or written sentence to a reflection gallery about a career that matches something they like or a problem they want to solve. By the end, each student will share their finished poster in the Community Career Walk with a short talk about their career, their interests, and a question they still have.

Begin with a Career Kickoff Carousel where parents and guardians visit in short rotations to share a simple story about their job and lead an easy hands-on task, tool demo, or pretend problem-solving activity students can try. Give each child a picture-based “career wonder card” to draw, circle, or dictate what they noticed, what they wonder, and which jobs match things they like. End with turn-and-talk partners so each student asks one question and names one job they found interesting, then introduce the project by asking how jobs connect to what we like, the problems we want to solve, and the world around us. This shared experience leads naturally into the career poster, reflection gallery, and Community Career Walk.

Host a Community Career Walk where families, classmates, and school staff visit student displays and parent-led career stations. Each child shares their career poster and gives a brief, teacher-supported talk about the job, one tool or task, how it helps people, and why they chose it. Invite visitors to leave a simple compliment or question with picture cues or sentence stems so kindergarten students can understand and respond. End with a reflection gallery where students add a drawing and simple caption about a career that matches something they like or a problem they want to solve.