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What's Your Superpower Career?

Lesson Plan

Superpower Career Discovery Plan

Students will identify their personal strengths, interests, and values, and connect these qualities to a diverse range of potential career paths.

This lesson empowers students to recognize their unique attributes as valuable assets in the professional world, fostering self-awareness and informed decision-making about their future.

Audience

7th Grade Students

Time

60 minutes

Approach

Interactive discovery and reflective activities.

Materials

Prep

Preparation

15 minutes

Step 1

Introduction: What's Your Superpower?

10 minutes

  • Display Unleash Your Inner Career Hero Slide Deck (Slides 1-3).
  • Begin with a captivating question: "What makes you, YOU? What are your hidden talents or things you love to do?" (5 minutes)
  • Explain that everyone has unique "superpowers" (strengths, interests, passions) that can lead to amazing careers. Introduce the lesson objective. (5 minutes)
  • Use the Unleash Your Inner Career Hero Slide Deck to guide this discussion.

Step 2

Discover Your Super Strengths (Activity)

20 minutes

  • Distribute the My Superpower Shield Creator Activity and explain the instructions (5 minutes).
  • Guide students through brainstorming their strengths, interests, and passions, writing them on their shield sections. Encourage them to think broadly, beyond just school subjects (e.g., problem-solving, creativity, helping others, loving animals, building things). (10 minutes)
  • Facilitate brief pair-share where students share one superpower with a classmate. (5 minutes)

Step 3

Connecting Superpowers to Careers

15 minutes

  • Display Unleash Your Inner Career Hero Slide Deck (Slides 4-6).
  • Lead a discussion using the slides, prompting students to think about how different superpowers might translate into various career fields. Provide examples. (10 minutes)
  • Have students briefly write down 2-3 potential career paths on their shield that align with their identified superpowers. (5 minutes)
  • Use the Unleash Your Inner Career Hero Slide Deck to inspire and guide this section.

Step 4

Reflecting on Your Career Quest (Journal)

10 minutes

  • Distribute the Reflecting on My Career Quest Journal. (2 minutes)
  • Explain the journal prompts, encouraging students to reflect on what they learned about themselves and potential career paths today. (8 minutes)
  • Assure students that this is a starting point for exploration, not a final decision.
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Slide Deck

Unleash Your Inner Career Hero!

What are YOUR unique talents, interests, and passions?

Let's discover how they can lead to an amazing future!

Welcome students and introduce the exciting idea of discovering their inner career superhero. Ask an open-ended question to get them thinking about their unique qualities.

What Are Your Superpowers?

They're not just about flying or super strength!

  • Strengths: Things you're good at (e.g., listening, building, solving puzzles).
  • Interests: Things you love to do (e.g., playing sports, drawing, helping animals).
  • Passions: Things you care deeply about (e.g., the environment, fairness, creating art).

These are your unique abilities!

Explain that 'superpowers' are not about flying, but about what makes them special. Define strengths, interests, and passions with simple examples.

Why Discover Your Career Superpowers?

Knowing your superpowers helps you:

  • Find a job you'll love! Imagine doing something you're naturally good at and enjoy.
  • Understand yourself better! What makes you unique and awesome?
  • See possibilities! Discover jobs you never even knew existed.
  • Build a bright future! Your superpowers are valuable assets.

Emphasize why this exploration is important for their future. Connect it to finding a job they'll enjoy and be good at.

Superpowers in Action: Examples!

Let's brainstorm!

  • If you love to CREATE: Artist, Graphic Designer, Writer, Chef, Engineer.
  • If you love to HELP others: Doctor, Teacher, Social Worker, Nurse, Counselor.
  • If you love to SOLVE problems: Scientist, Detective, Mechanic, Programmer, Architect.

Think about hobbies, school subjects, and even things you do with friends or family!

Provide clear examples to help students brainstorm. Ask for student ideas and write them on the board if possible.

More Superpower Connections!

  • If you are ORGANIZED: Event Planner, Librarian, Project Manager, Accountant.
  • If you love ANIMALS: Veterinarian, Zoologist, Pet Sitter, Animal Shelter Worker.
  • If you are good at COMMUNICATING: Journalist, Public Speaker, Marketing Specialist, Actor.

Every superpower has a place in the world of work!

Continue with more examples to broaden their perspective. Encourage them to think about how different skills are needed in various jobs.

Your Superpower, Your Future!

Today, you started building your personal "Superpower Shield."

Remember:

  • Your unique strengths and interests are incredibly valuable.
  • They can lead you to exciting and fulfilling career paths.
  • Keep exploring! The world needs your superpowers!

Now, let's reflect on your journey!

Conclude by reiterating the main message and setting up the next activity (journal).

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Activity

My Superpower Shield Creator

Your unique strengths, interests, and passions are like your personal superpowers! Use this shield to identify and celebrate them, then connect them to exciting career possibilities.

Instructions:

  1. Cut out your Superpower Shield along the dotted line.
  2. Brainstorm your superpowers! Think about:
    • Strengths: What are you good at? What do people often ask you for help with?
    • Interests: What do you love learning about? What do you do in your free time?
    • Passions: What causes do you care about? What problems do you want to solve?
  3. Write your superpowers in the different sections of your shield.
  4. Connect to Careers: After discussing in class, write down 2-3 potential career paths that might use your superpowers.

My Superpower Shield

(Imagine a shield shape here, with sections for writing)

My Top Strengths:







My Key Interests:







My Deepest Passions:







Career Paths that Use My Superpowers:







Self-Reflection: Share one superpower from your shield with a classmate!

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Journal

Reflecting on My Career Quest

Take some time to think about what you discovered today about yourself and the exciting world of careers. Use these prompts to guide your reflection.

Journal Prompts:

1. My Most Surprising Superpower:

What was one strength, interest, or passion that you identified today that surprised you, or that you hadn't thought of as a

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