Career Explorations ©2024

Designed for middle school and young high school students, Career Explorations blends occupation and industry content with case studies and real-world, application-based questions and activities to engage students from the first page. Students will immerse themselves in each of the 16 career clusters, one chapter at a time, exploring hundreds of jobs, salaries, required education, and the steps necessary to build an occupation in that career field. Essential questions, case studies, industry-specific practice questions, and activities guide students to connect with their future. The content and support tools assist both inexperienced and seasoned teachers to bring career exploration to life in their classroom. 


• All 79 CTE pathways in each of the 16 career clustered covered.

• Hundreds of interesting careers featured.

• Case studies in each chapter take the student inside an emerging career in detail.

• Fundamental industry data including salaries, job growth, education level and more from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

• Real-world, industry-specific soft skills practice questions throughout each chapter expose students to applied math, graphics literacy, and reading comprehension skills.

• Essential questions in each section focus students on critical discussion topics and are backward-mapped from many standards-based outcomes.

• Rich multi-media resources that provide students with multiple opportunities to contextualize and apply their understanding and personalize the learning experience.

• Digital teaching guide features presentation materials, discussion prompts, pre-made assessments, question banks, and project-based learning resources for teachers to deliver the content in a pedagogically sound manner.


Students that have completed our foundational Careers and Basics of Business course may find our intermediate business explorations course, Business Foundations (c)2021 more suitable.  
Click here to view the program: Business Foundations: A Changing World, 2021