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Grades 1–2: Help your child imagine what they want to be when they grow up with this step-by-step family activity. Kids will set a goal, share it, and learn about the power of education—an inspiring experience!

Grades 3–5: Use these charming career notebook printables to help students connect their interests and skills to possible jobs.

Here’s how:

1. Prompt your child to share their favorite interests.

• Show how interests can connect to careers.
• For example: If you love playing computer games, you might want to become an app creator who makes games.

2. Direct your child to think about strengths and skills they have (reading, writing, drawing, problem solving, sharing, etc.).

• Chat about how professionals use those skills.
• For example: A journalist uses writing and listening skills to help report the news.

3. Give your child the career notebook printables. (Younger children can just do the first page.)

• Show how to cut the pages in half and staple them to create a booklet.
• Point out that the pages will help your child collect the details they’ll need to choose and research a career.
• For research, they can use the internet or any relevant books you have handy (tip: your local library may have ebooks available for borrowing).

Level Up: Role play a scene with your child acting as the future professional they want to be! You pretend to be a customer or a client and share a problem with your child. Let your mini-professional use their future career skills to solve it.