What do you want to DO when you grow up?
Lessons
Students will use online tools and job search engines to explore career possibilities and the job market.
Exploring Engineering Careers
Lessons
Students will learn about the different types of engineering and the various post-secondary pathways available.
Cybersecurity Career Exploration
Lessons
Students will explore different possible working environments related to the field of cybersecurity.
Coding is For Everyone!
Lessons
Students will learn the importance of computer programming skills across a variety of career areas and how these skills can make them more employable.
You Be the Crime Scene Investigator
Lessons
Students will learn about crime scene investigation and its connections to cell biology and careers.
Crack the Code: Water Treatment
Lessons
Students learn about the water treatment process as they complete a digital “escape room” on a Google site.
Let’s Talk Careers Competition
Interactives
Join us for Canada’s Most Informed School and Students Competition, participate every fall and spring.
That’s a Real Job Contest
Interactives
This contest will challenge students from grade 5 to 12 to come up with a future career concept that could be turned into a video in our next That’s a Real Job campaign!
A Virtual Career Fair
Lessons
Students will learn about various careers, and career pathways, through their review of various career profiles.
Students will continue to develop their understanding of the importance of STEM courses/programs for future career pathways.
The Role of Formal and Informal Education
Lessons
Students will develop an understanding of the differences between, and value of, both formal and informal education in the career development process.
Exploring Occupational Clusters
Lessons
Students will recognize the variety of careers available in each occupational cluster.
Students will recognize that many of these careers require or benefit from a background in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
Students will make personal connections between their interests and current skills to the people profiled.
The Role of Personal Skills and Interests
Lessons
Students will further develop their understanding and appreciation of the importance of personal interests, skills, achievements as well as previous job skills and experiences to the career development process.
Learning About Educational Pathways
Lessons
Students will be aware of and understand the importance of, various learning pathways that lead to successful life and work experiences.
Students will become aware of the variety of STEM careers available in each of these different learning pathways.
What Influences our Career Choices?
Lessons
Students will develop the understanding that there are many things that influence a person’s career choice.
Exploring Career Types
Lessons
Students will recognize that there are many different ways to earn a living and that a ‘career’ does not necessarily have to be a 9 to 5 arrangement.
Students will recognize that different career types and job arrangements have their own positive and negative aspects.