What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up? Find out at Kids Work!
May 2, 2008
The big question for kids: what do you want to be when you grow up? It’s such a tough question, many adults haven’t figured it out yet. To help your elementary students make an informed decision about what careers they might like, send them to Kids Work!
Kids Work! explores a variety of career paths such as pharmacists, TV directors, and even playwrights. Students can also complete job-related activities like creating a production budget for a TV broadcast. By strolling around the block in Kids Work!’s virtual small town, students can discover the jobs, duties and workplaces they might want to inhabit one day.
The only drawback to Kids Work! is it doesn’t have many jobs to choose from, and the site omits childhood favorites like fireman, astronaut, or pirate (maybe that one’s for the best). Still, for the careers Kids Work! does have, kids can find out some real in-depth info, and have fun while they’re at it. Kids Work! makes some of these jobs look like so much fun, I wonder if maybe I should’ve been a TV audio engineer. -BILL FERRIS
