College Foundation of North Carolina

The College Foundation of North Carolina has created a school year's worth of monthly lesson plans focused around school achievement and going to college for 6-12 grade.  Each grade level has downloadable .pdf lesson plans and activities that go along with the lesson.  I've used many of these lessons with my students at different grade levels and they are effective.

In addition the website has information about the various steps to apply and attend college.

Career: What Do You Like?

The BLS Career Information website asks students what they are already interested in, and then recommends jobs based on particular areas. By no means a career interest inventory, it does help younger students (geared towards grades 4-8) see how activities they enjoy could lead them to a potential career option.

"On the kids' site, wording and labor market concepts have been simplified and some statistical detail has been eliminated. In addition, the occupations on the site are categorized according to interests and hobbies common among students. The twelve categories and their corresponding occupations are shown at the end of this Teacher's Guide. To help students continue their career exploration, each occupational description on the kids' site links to related information in theHandbook. The Bureau's Web site for kids is updated every 2 years with each new edition of the Occupational Outlook Handbook."