Students investigate how their interests, strengths, family roles, and favorite activities can connect to jobs they may enjoy in the future. Through hands-on discovery stations, shared reading and discussion, weekly reflection circles, and conversations with families, they build self-knowledge while practicing speaking, listening, questioning, and shared research. The work leads to a student-made Career Museum mini poster and presentation that uses simple RIASEC vocabulary to explain who they are and what kinds of work might fit them.

Students will identify and describe their interests, strengths, family roles, and favorite activities, and connect them to possible future jobs using age-appropriate RIASEC vocabulary. They will ask and answer who, what, where, when, why, and how questions about texts, read-alouds, family stories, and career sharing experiences to gather information for their mini poster. Students will collaborate in conversations, practice giving and receiving feedback, and revise their speaking and visual display so they can clearly present their ideas to an audience. Through weekly reflection and the final museum presentation, students will build self-awareness and explain how what they know about themselves can help them imagine work they might enjoy in the future.

Students will create interest and strength artifacts throughout the project, including RIASEC discovery station recordings or drawings, family interview notes, read-aloud response charts with who/what/why details, and weekly reflection cards. They will also make and revise a draft mini poster with pictures, labels, and simple sentences about their family roles, favorite activities, strengths, and a job they might enjoy. Before the final exhibition, pairs will use a simple feedback checklist to help each other add missing information and practice speaking clearly. By the end, each student will present a polished All About Me Career Museum mini poster, supported by drawings or audio, during Family Career Museum Night.

Kick off with an “All About Me Discovery Stations” event where students rotate through short hands-on centers such as building with blocks, making art, sorting and organizing materials, helping a partner, and leading a quick conversation game. After each station, students name what they liked, what felt easy, and which kind of job that activity might connect to using simple RIASEC-friendly language and picture cards. Close with a class meeting around the question, “What can our interests, strengths, and families tell us about the jobs we might enjoy in the future?” and have students draw or orally share one station that felt most like them.

Host a Family Career Museum Night where students stand by their All About Me Career Museum mini posters and guide guests through their interests, strengths, family roles, and one future job they might enjoy. Each child gives a short oral presentation using RIASEC words and visual supports, and can play a simple audio recording that tells about their ideas and feelings. Invite family members and caregivers, including classroom career-sharing guests, to leave written or picture-note feedback about connections they notice between each child’s interests and possible careers. End with a reflection circle or class celebration where students share one thing they are proud of and one job they want to keep exploring.