Paint Careers With Colors
Lesson Series: K-12

Number of Lessons in Unit: 5

 

Time Required:20-30 minutes/each

 

Best time of year to implement this unit: Anytime

 

Lesson Titles:

 

Self Awareness

• Tools to Awareness
• Career Assessment, Test, or Activity
• Recommended Career Assessments or Activities
• Learning about Yourself

Day One:  Meet Your Guide and Get Your Map.

Day Two:  Meet John Holland, a Great Explorer.

Day Three:  Find the Secret Code.

Day Four:  Understand the Secret Code – The Holland Code

·        Arts

·        People

·        Business

·        Science

·        Office

·        Technical/ Tools

Day Five:  Find Your Career Group.

Exploring Paint Careers With Colors Game

Paint Careers With Colors Mini Posters

Day Six:  Get Your Holland Code - SDS Career Explorer    

Day Seven:  Get Your Career List.

Day Eight:  Look at Exploring Careers Web Sites

Day Nine:  Look at Exploring Careers Books.

 

National Standards

 

1.  American School Counselor Association National Standard (ASCA)

Standard A: Studentswill acquire the skills to investigate the world of work in relation to knowledge of self and to make informed career decisions.

2.  Career Development and Occupational Studies (CDOS)

Elementary Standard 1:  Career Development

Student will be knowledge able about the world of work, explore career options, and relate personal skills, aptitudes, and abilities to future career decisions.

3.  National Career Development Guidelines (NCDG)

Career DevelopmentArea:  Elementary School - Educational and Occupational Exploration

• PS - Personal Social Development
• CM - Career Management
• K - Knowledge Acquisition

GOAL PS1: Develop understanding of yourself to build and maintain a positive self-concept.

• PS1.K2  Identify your abilities, strengths, skills, and talents.
• CM3.K4  Identify several ways to classify occupations.

4.  Missouri Comprehensive Guidance Programs Career Development (CD) Strand

Big Idea 7: Applying career exploration and planning skills in theachievement of life career goals

Concepts:       CD 7 A   Integration of self knowledge into lifeand career planning

5.  Possible Standards Connections

• English Language Arts
• Mathematics, Science, and Technology
• Social Studies
• The Arts

 

Materials/Special Preparation Required:

 

1.  Introduction

• Alphabetized Product List
• Fact Sheets
• Overview
• Paint Careers With Colors Wheel – Children
• Paint Careers With Colors Wheel – RIASEC
• Paint With Colors Model
• RIASEC VS Children Model Table
• Step by Step Guide

2.     Explore Paint Careers With Colors Game

3.     Mini-Posters

4.     Career Test - Children & RIASEC

• Children Test
• Children Test Guide
• Photo Test
• Photo Test Guide
• RIASEC Test
• RIASEC Test Guide

5.   Color Key

• Color Key-RIASEC Version
• Color Key-RIASEC Alphabetized Version
• Color Key-Children Version
• Color Key-Children2-Alphabetized Version
• Color Key-Photo Version
• Color Key-Photo-Alphabetized Version

6.  Posters

• Children Version
• Leaders Version
• RIASEC Version
• Photo Posters
• Poster Card Instruction Sheet-2009 – Photo Version
• Poster Card Instruction Sheet-2009 – RIASEC Version
• Poster Card Instruction Sheet-2009 – Children Version

 

Lesson #1: Find YourSecret Code

 

Materials/Special Preparation Required:

• Exploring Paint Careers With Colors Game Sheet
• Exploring Paint Careers With Colors Game Instruction Sheet
• Young Person’s Occupational Handbook (Optional)
• Paper, markers, pencils

 

Lesson Assessment (acceptable evidence):

• Assessment should relate to the performance outcome for goals and objectives.
• Assessment can be question answer, performance activity, etc.
• Students will be able to name a Paint Careers With Colors Code.

 

Lesson Preparation

 

Essential Questions:

1. Why are adults expected to do jobs at work?

2. Why do people need to have jobs at home or school?

3. What are some important jobs that people do at home and in your classroom?

4. What would happen if people didn’t have jobs?

5. What jobs would like to do when you grow up?

 

Engagement (Hook):

Look at the Exploring Paint Careers With Colors Game Sheet.  Name each job.

Ask the students, if they would like to do the job. Are there some jobs that interest you more than others?  Ask the students to give a “thumbs up”.

 

Procedures:

 

·        Objective

The objective of the game is to explore careers and Paint Careers With Colors Codes. 

 

·        Contents

 

1.     Exploring Paint Careers With Colors Game Sheet

2.      Exploring Paint Careers With Colors Game Instruction Sheet

3.      Young Person’s Occupational Handbook (Optional)

4.      Occupational posters (Optional)

 

 

·        Set-UP

Print a set of Exploring Paint Careers With Colors Game sheets for each person.

 

·        Playing the Game

·        Student Involvement:

·        Teacher Follow-Up Activities

·        Appendix on Career Development Models