Kid-Friendly Career Cards
Study the six essential fields and translation tricks for turning BLS data into career cards fifth graders can read and remember.
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Questions Covered in This Set
11 cards to master
How long should a fifth grader be able to read a career card?
About ninety seconds — roughly 150–250 words on a single page.
What are the six fields that earn space on a career card?
1) What they do all day, 2) A day in the life, 3) School after high school, 4) Pay, 5) Is this job growing?, 6) You might like this if…
How should the 'What they do all day' field be written?
2–3 sentences with verbs first, in plain language: 'looks inside people's ears, listens to hearts' instead of 'performs diagnostic procedures.'
How do you translate a credential for a 10-year-old?
Convert it into time: 'About 2 more years at a community college' rather than 'associate's degree.'
What should be cut from a kid-friendly career card?
SOC codes, exact decimal percentages, 'work experience in a related occupation,' and anything using the word 'typically.'
Name the three tricks for translating salary data.
Monthly math (divide by 12), the anchor comparison (compare to a teacher's pay), and giving the range (10th–90th percentile) instead of one number.
Why use the pay range instead of a single median number?
'Most earn between $45,000 and $99,000' quietly teaches that pay grows with experience — more truthful than one point.
What three phrases describe job growth on a card?
'Growing fast,' 'growing slowly,' or 'shrinking a little' — plus a human reason why.
How do you make a growth percentage meaningful?
Convert it to bodies: '4% growth means about 79,000 new jobs over ten years.'
What is the optional 'A word to know' field?
One piece of real job vocabulary (apprenticeship, diagnosis, blueprint) defined in kid language, turning the card into vocabulary instruction.
What honesty line should every card include?
That projections are guesses about the future, and guesses can be wrong.
