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My Personality & Future Career

Language ArtsCoding

Discover your personality traits and potential careers using the O*NET Interest Profiler in this engaging coding lesson for Grades 6-8.

Pacing
1 class
Grade
Grade 7
Teacher's Kit included — Lesson Plan · Student Kit · Answer Key · Rubric · See what's inside
My Personality & Future Career
Standards-aligned
CSTAISTEAASL
Lesson at a glance
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?Essential question
The through-line for every task in this lesson.
Students will be able to
  • Research careers based on their O*NET Interest Profiler results and learn how their traits align with different professions.
  • Design an interactive project featuring their personality traits and related career.
  • Code animations and background music to their project.
  • Reflect on how their personality traits influence their career choices.
The student journey

This is a build — not a worksheet packet

Every lesson runs like the story students are about to make: read it, write it, build it, polish it, publish it. The printables scaffold each stage — the published Elementari project is the destination.

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✏️

Write & plan

~15 min

On a scaffold built for the lesson, students plan their writing with sentence frames, a word bank, and a glossary — never a blank page.

1Student Kit · sneak peek
Planning questions for this lesson are included in the storyboard.
Glossary  a kid-friendly definition for every key term
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🎨

Design & code

The main event~60 min

In the studio, students bring the project to life — adding art and following the exact writing and coding steps shown below. The Studio Compass walks them through it, one step at a time.

🧭Studio CompassStep 1 / 6
Exploring Personality & Careers 📋
Take the O*NET Interest Profiler ( https://www.mynextmove.org/ ) to discover your personality traits. Write down your top two traits and pick a career that matches. Fill out the pr
Each step checks off & advances on its own
All 6 studio steps · dynamic to the project
1Exploring Personality & Careers 📋~15 min
2Design Your Title Page 🎨~5 min
3Design Your Main Page 🎨~10 min
4Create Your Personality Traits Page 💡~10 min
5Create Your Career Details Page 💼~10 min
6Make it Pretty and Add Some Fun! ✨~10 min
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🔁

Polish

ongoing

Teacher and peer feedback pin right onto the project — students revise until it's ready to share.

Feedback on the project2 pins
🍎
Add one more sentence here so readers get the full picture.
👍 2Teacher
A
The interaction is clear — it helps the reader follow the project!
⭐ 3Peer
One-tap repliesNice work!Add detail
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🚀

Publish

The payoff~15 min

Students publish their finished, playable project to the class showcase — each one gets its own shareable link.

🎉Published to the class showcase
A project made by your student
Published🌍 Shareable link — anyone can play
The Teacher's Kit

The printables that power the build

Every page walks students toward publishing on Elementari — the build is the lesson, these printables get them there.

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Lesson Plan

Your teaching plan — standards alignment, the essential question, and the full lesson flow with the build steps, plus coaching notes.

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Before you teach

Set up in about ten minutes

A couple of things to gather, a few quick steps to prep — then you're ready to hand it to students.

What you need
  • A device per student or pair
  • Internet connection
  • Headphones or speakers
Prep · about 10 min
  1. 1Print the student kits
  2. 2Assign this lesson to your students
  3. 3Skim the build steps
Standards alignment

Aligned to the standards you teach

Every task maps to a specific standard, so planning and reporting are covered.

Tracking 7 frameworks: Common Core ELA, Common Core Math, NGSS +4
21st-century skillsCritical ThinkingCommunicationCreativityCoding
CSTA3ISTE8AASL33 frameworks · 14 standards
CSTA
CSTA K–12 Computer Science
3 standards
2-AP-10

Use flowcharts and/or pseudocode to address complex problems as algorithms.

Also addressed2-AP-13 · 2-AP-17
ISTE
ISTE Standards for Students
8 standards
ISTE 6b

Students create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations.

Also addressedISTE 6d · ISTE 6c · ISTE 5a · ISTE 4a · ISTE 4d · ISTE 4c · ISTE 4b
AASL
AASL Standards Framework for Learners
3 standards
AASL I.A.2

Recalling prior and background knowledge as context for new meaning

Also addressedAASL I.B.3 · AASL I.C.4

Full task-by-task mapping — including Depth of Knowledge — is in the answer key.

Differentiation & accessibility

Built to reach every learner

One lesson, three built-in paths — with accessibility baked into the materials, not bolted on afterward.

Extra support

Emerging readers & writers
  • Read-aloud and multilingual support in the Elementari build
  • Studio Compass highlights one task at a time — including the coding
  • Sentence frames and a word bank so it is never a blank page

On grade

The core lesson
  • The passage and storyboard exactly as written
  • Model answers and “look-fors” in the answer key
  • Self-check chips at every milestone

Ready for more

Extension & challenge
  • Challenge vocabulary and a real-world extension question
  • Deepen one existing page or interaction — without changing the required mechanics
  • A longer, evidence-based reflection prompt
Accessibility, built inPredictable step-by-step structureOne task at a time · Studio CompassHighlighted response areasLow-stimulation printMovement-friendly pacingDesigned so every student can design, write, and code — with ADHD, autism, and dyslexia in mind.
Questions

Teacher FAQ

Do I need to know how to code?

No coding experience needed. Studio Compass guides students through Guided Steps — each names the exact block and checks itself off — while you facilitate.

What devices does it work on?

Any modern browser — laptops, Chromebooks, and tablets. Nothing to install.

Do my students need an account?

No student email addresses required. You roster your class in a couple of clicks, and students join with a simple class code.

Is it standards-aligned?

Yes — each lesson shows national frameworks and supported state codes from your Standards setting, with specific standards and DOK levels called out in the answer key.

Can students work at different levels?

Built-in read-aloud, sentence frames, and task-level word suggestions meet students where they are, and the self-checking steps let each student work at their own pace.

How do students share their work?

They submit to you for review; you publish the best to your class showcase, each with a public link.

Ready when you are

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Import your class, assign in one click, and watch them build — the whole kit comes with it.

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My Personality & Future Career
Grade 7 · 1 class