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🧭 Career Exploration & Apprenticeship Projects

Turn career curiosity into action through work awareness, interests, skills, career families, tools, day-in-the-life research, training paths, apprenticeships, work habits, communication, safety, money tradeoffs, career research, interviews, mini-projects, portfolios, resume/bio basics, skill pitching, path comparison, and an apprenticeship project capstone.

20 lessonsAges 3–10Four age versions per lessonCareer ExplorationApprenticeshipPortfolioWorkplace Skills

Complete lesson syllabus

Every lesson below contains age-banded facts and quiz questions. Some lessons also include a make-or-explain artifact prompt. Titles are shown in their current course order.

  1. What Is Work?
    Career Awareness · Community Awareness · Purpose
    Example: Work solves problems and creates value for other people, communities, organizations, or customers.
  2. Interests, Strengths & Values
    Self Knowledge · Reflection · Career Fit
    Example: Career fit can include interests, strengths, values, personality, health needs, family needs, learning style, and preferred work environment.
  3. Skills You Can Grow
    Skill Building · Growth Mindset · Practice
    Example: Transferable skills are useful in many jobs, such as communication, problem-solving, reliability, teamwork, creativity, and learning how to learn.
  4. Career Families
    Career Clusters · Classification · Research
  5. Tools of the Trade
    Tool Literacy · Workplace Awareness · Safety
  6. A Day in the Life
    Job Research · Time Awareness · Empathy
  7. Education & Training Paths
    Training Paths · Planning · Credential Literacy
  8. Apprenticeships & Mentors
    Apprenticeship · Mentorship · Work Based Learning
  9. Work Habits & Reliability
    Reliability · Executive Function · Professionalism
  10. Teamwork & Communication
    Communication · Teamwork · Collaboration
  11. Safety at Work
    Workplace Safety · Rights Awareness · Risk Management
  12. Money, Benefits & Tradeoffs
    Financial Literacy · Tradeoff Analysis · Career Planning
  13. Career Research
    Research · Source Evaluation · Career Literacy
  14. Interview a Helper
    Interviewing · Listening · Community Connection
  15. Try a Mini-Project
    Project Based Learning · Experimentation · Portfolio
  16. Build a Portfolio
    Portfolio · Evidence · Reflection
  17. Resume & Bio Basics
    Resume Writing · Self Presentation · Documentation
  18. Pitch Your Skills
    Presentation · Confidence · Evidence
  19. Compare Three Paths
    Decision Making · Comparison · Planning
  20. Apprenticeship Project Capstone
    Apprenticeship · Portfolio · Career Planning

How age adaptation works

The lesson record contains separate fact sets and quiz questions for Pre-K, kindergarten, early elementary, and upper elementary. This is not the same paragraph with a smaller font: vocabulary, detail, and question demands can change by age band. Parents can still choose a different level if their child needs it.

Assessment and records

Course quizzes provide immediate practice feedback. Completion and progress can feed parent-managed records, but a quiz score is not a teacher-issued grade, independent diagnosis, or accredited course credit.

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