Careers Exploration Research Project - Building Research Skills - Portfolio

In this career explorations research project, students research a career. They present their findings in a research portfolio: a variety of creative written and artistic projects, including writing a resume. This process develops important research skills like evaluating sources, citing and paraphrasing evidence, and analyzing claims. Students are engaged and excited as they present their results in an alternative to a formal paper.

✅ High Engagement Activity

✅ Editable and Differentiated

✅ Paper or Digital

This is a complete career research project based on the Big6 Style, differentiated to meet the needs of your high-achievers as well as struggling readers, LEP students, and EC students. All of your students can build their research skills together!

What Other Teachers are Saying: 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Students loved this research project and it helped them get interested in careers. It was interesting to see what they were really interested in!” -Hey Teacher Hey

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Great resource to use in our careers unit for my ESL class.” -Shaney P.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Great research project for helping my middle school students explore career pathways.” -Cara G.

❤️ You can reuse several of these components for other projects, research, or presentations (the evaluation sheets, for example).

Your Careers Research Project Includes:

1. Full Teacher’s Guide with project options, suggestions for research phases, considerations for student workdays, and ideas for showcasing student work

2. Editable project materials, rubrics, and unit plan: 

-Career Explorations Research Prep Sheet

-Research Project Checkpoints

-Mini-Project Guidelines

-Rubric

3. Activities and handouts to build research skills (paper + digital):

-Integrating Sources with model text (“In Focus: Gordon Parks”)

-Source Sheet/Source Cards

-Research Overview Booklet (or Slideshow)

-MLA Cheat Sheet

-Resume writing activity

4. Presentation Feedback Slips you can reuse for any project

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