Name of Lesson: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, What Will I Be When I Am Tall: Career

Clusters, Skills, and Interests Part 1

Counselor: Erica Sgroi
UNIT/TOPIC:
(If unit, note how many
lessons in unit):

Career Awareness Unit 2 lessons

DOMAIN:
(academic, career,
personal/social)

Career

GRADE LEVEL(S):

4th grade

GUIDANCE
STANDARD(S):
ASCA Standards
Addressed:
INDIANA
STANDARDS
ADDRESSED:
*If this lesson is
crosswalked with other
academic areas, please list
here.
LEARNING
OBJECTIVES

C:A1.3: Develop an awareness of personal abilities, skills, interests, and motivations.

C:A1.8: Pursue and develop competency in areas of interest.
C:B1.2: Identify personal skills, interests, and abilities and relate them to current career choice.
C:B1.4: Know the various ways in which occupations can be classified.

3-5.2.1 Use a career interest inventory to identify career interests.

3-5.2.4 Use personal, print, and electronic resources to research an occupation.
3-5.2.7 List jobs that relate to their hobbies and/or leisure activities.

To learn how interests can translate into a career.

To learn about career clusters.

TIME REQUIRED

30 minutes

MATERIALS NEEDED

Computer with projector, pencils, career cluster survey

ACTIVITY SUMMARY

Pre test, intro to activity, career cluster survey, conclusion things to think about until next
time.

1.
2.
3.
PROCEDURE

4.
5.

Explain activity and what theyll be learning about. 3 minutes

Pre test 5 minutes
Hand out the career cluster survey and tell students to check the options that they are
interested in provide help if they need it the survey could be read aloud and the
students can check boxes as you go along. 15-20 minutes
Allow student to finish the survey, collect them and have them start thinking about
careers they might be interested in the counselor can tally them up for the students if
there is a lack of time to do it during the lesson.
Follow up this lesson with Part 2.

EVALUATION:

1.

What data will you

collect and How will you

2.

Pre/Post test information will tell me if the students learned what they were
supposed to from the lesson.
I plan to get feedback from the teachers about what their students said about the
lessons.

collect data to show:

1.
2.

impact on K-12
students
feedback on
lesson

FOLLOW-UP PLAN:

Next session will focus on looking at the surveys and identifying the career clusters that the
results show.

CITATION(S)
References/Resources
Used:
Cite copyrighted materials, but
do not reproduce copyrighted
materials in your lesson plan.
Non-copyrighted materials must
be reproduced and included in
your lesson plan.

Lesson Adapted from Claire Murphy from Sope Creek Elementary School Fifth Grade
Classroom Guidance Lesson. http://sopecreeklibrary.typepad.com/counselors/home/

Name of Lesson: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, What Will I Be When I Am Tall: Career
Clusters, Skills, and Interests Part 2
Counselor: Erica Sgroi
UNIT/TOPIC:
(If unit, note how many
lessons in unit):

Career Awareness Unit 2 lessons

DOMAIN:
(academic, career,
personal/social)

Career

GRADE LEVEL(S):

4th grade

GUIDANCE
STANDARD(S):
ASCA Standards
Addressed:
INDIANA
STANDARDS
ADDRESSED:
*If this lesson is
crosswalked with other
academic areas, please list
here.
LEARNING
OBJECTIVES

C:A1.3: Develop an awareness of personal abilities, skills, interests, and motivations.

C:A1.8: Pursue and develop competency in areas of interest.
C:B1.2: Identify personal skills, interests, and abilities and relate them to current career choice.
C:B1.4: Know the various ways in which occupations can be classified.

3-5.2.1 Use a career interest inventory to identify career interests.

3-5.2.4 Use personal, print, and electronic resources to research an occupation.
3-5.2.7 List jobs that relate to their hobbies and/or leisure activities.

To learn how interests can translate into a career.

To learn about career clusters.

TIME REQUIRED

30 minutes

MATERIALS NEEDED

Computer with projector, pencils, career cluster survey

ACTIVITY SUMMARY
Intro to activity, hand back surveys, discussion about career clusters, conclusion, post test

1.
2.

Explain activity and what theyll be learning about. 3 minutes

Hand the surveys back out to the students and discuss what a career cluster is 15
minutes
a.

PROCEDURE

3.
4.

A Career cluster is a set of jobs that require similar skills. An

example would be the Health Services career cluster contains jobs
like a doctor, nurse, a dentist.
b. Tell the students that Indiana has 16 careers clusters: Agriculture,
Arts/AV Technology/Communication, Education/Training,
Hospitality/Human Services,
Architecture/Construction/Business/Marketing, Health Science,
Information Technology, Manufacturing, STEM (Science, Technology,
Engineering, Mathematics), Public Safety, Transportation
c. Show power point with what jobs fall under each category
Have the students turn to a neighbor and have them to quietly share a cluster that
they got and if they were surprised. 5 minutes
Post test 5 minutes

EVALUATION:
What data will you
collect and How will you
collect data to show:
1.
2.

impact on K-12
students
feedback on
lesson

FOLLOW-UP PLAN:

1.
2.

Pre/Post test information will tell me if the students learned what they were supposed
to from the lesson.
I plan to get feedback from the teachers about what their students said about the
lessons.

Ask students to think about their career clusters and share with their parents what cluster they
got.

CITATION(S)
References/Resources
Used:
Cite copyrighted materials, but
do not reproduce copyrighted
materials in your lesson plan.
Non-copyrighted materials must
be reproduced and included in
your lesson plan.

Lesson Adapted from Claire Murphy from Sope Creek Elementary School Fifth Grade
Classroom Guidance Lesson. http://sopecreeklibrary.typepad.com/counselors/home/