Kids are dreamers. Give young students a running start toward their dream careers with the Children’s Dictionary of Occupations CD-ROM.
It’s informative!
You can trust the Children’s Dictionary of Occupations because it’s based on the widely recognized Occupational Outlook Handbook. When students use this multimedia version of the CDO, they’ll be able to explore 300 specific jobs in 16 Career Clusters—and, in the process, start developing career-planning skills that will help them for the rest of their lives.
It’s written in age-appropriate language to specifically engage elementary and middle school learners. They’ll return to this fantastic multimedia resource again and again…and the included list of Web sites, books, and other materials will encourage them to also pursue their career exploration offline, too.
It’s full of choices!
What section will they go to first? The choice is theirs! This highly interactive CD-ROM allows learners to control the order in which they view the content. And getting around is extra easy because the menu buttons and navigation devices are specially designed to make sense to young users.
As they click from zone to zone, they’ll pick up lots of information while they explore a galaxy of careers—and get ready for their very first job experience.
• A-Z Occupations provides an alphabetical listing of careers and what it’s like to do them.
• Career Clusters groups job descriptions by category, to help learners identify related jobs in the same occupational area.
• Your Interests uses an Interactive Interest Survey to help students zero in on careers that match up with what they like to do best.
• Career Advice contains great tips on getting experience…creating a resume, cover letter, and portfolio…finding an occupation…preparing for an interview…and getting through that all-important first day on the job.
It’s fun!
The colorful screens are filled with attention-grabbing features—animations, sound effects, rollovers that encourage exploration, and audio narration with supporting text—so students will stay on task easier and longer. Also, a Print button lets learners make hard copies of career descriptions, to look at later on with their teachers and parents.
System requirements:
• PC platform: Windows 95, 98, NT4, Me, 2000, XP.
• Macintosh platform: OS 8.x, 9.x, 10.x.
This CD-ROM requires nothing to be installed on the end-user’s hard drive; it runs straight from the disc or from a network server.
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” It’s never too early to ask—and get students thinking about the career of a lifetime! Networkable. A Meridian Production.
Correlates to The National Career Development Standards.
One Windows/Macintosh hybrid CD-ROM. © 2005.