Role-Play and Dress-Up Days: After exploring a
career through Pathful’s videos or speakers,
students could engage in role-play or dress-up
activities to "be" a firefighter, chef, scientist, etc., to
deepen understanding and practice vocabulary.
Career-Themed Storytelling: Have Professionals
create storytelling sessions that give younger
students a narrative around different jobs,
making careers relatable through story-based
learning or have professionals read a story
about their career, while providing insight from
their own experience.
Career Puppet Shows: Create puppet shows
where students can act out different jobs they’ve
learned about, promoting both understanding
and excitement about various careers.
Career Spotlights with Age-Appropriate Videos:
Utilize shorter, simpler employability and job-
shadowing videos that introduce young students
to different professions, emphasizing the daily
tasks, required skills, and fun aspects of each job.
Activity Ideas
Career Bingo or Scavenger Hunts: Create
career-themed bingo or scavenger hunts using
clues from Pathful’s videos to engage students in
recognizing different careers in their
surroundings or media.
Interactive Virtual Field Trips: Join virtual field
trips to various companies where professionals
provide K-5-friendly explanations of what they
do. Students can virtually "visit" and learn about
different workplaces.
Digital Career Portfolios for Kids: Create a
simple digital or physical portfolio where
students can record their favorite careers and
activities associated with them, along with
reflections on what they enjoyed about each
profession.
Pathful Junior Career
Activities
Build a Career Toolbox: After meeting a
professional, students can create a "toolbox" for
that career by drawing or collecting images of
the tools or items used. For example, after a
session with a chef, students could make paper
cutouts of measuring spoons, a whisk, and pots
to build their own chef’s toolbox.
Career Memory Game: After learning about
several careers, students can make a memory
card game by drawing pictures or using images
of tools or symbols associated with each career.
This helps reinforce what they learned and
builds recall skills.
Future Me Posters: After a session with a
professional, students create posters of
themselves in that career. They can draw their
"future selves" in uniforms or using tools they
learned about, imagining what they’d be like as
a firefighter, artist, or teacher..
Career Interview Role Play: Have students pair
up and role-play as interviewer and professional.
They can take turns asking each other questions
based on what they learned in the session,
reinforcing their understanding through pretend
interviews.
Community Helpers Thank-You Cards: After a
session with a community helper (like a nurse,
teacher, or firefighter), students can make thank-
you cards expressing gratitude for their service,
adding what they learned or why they
appreciate that job.
Design Your Own Tool or Uniform: Encourage
students to imagine and design a unique tool or
uniform that could help a professional do their
job better. After meeting an architect, students
could draw a new type of ruler or after meeting a
doctor, design a colorful lab coat with useful
pockets.
Create Your Own Company or Store: Inspired by
the professionals they’ve met, students can
design their own imaginary business, complete
with a name, logo, and what the company does.
After meeting a baker, for example, they could
design their own bakery and draw what it would
look like.