Free Career of the Week Resource for Middle School Exploration

Bright Future Press offers a free Career of the Week resource designed to spark curiosity and career exploration among middle-grade students. Perfect for grades 4-7, this weekly resource introduces students to a variety of careers, fostering self-discovery and awareness while connecting learning to real-world opportunities. Download now to inspire young minds on their path to future careers!

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An educational page about the career of actuary, featuring a photo of a person working on a laptop with financial graphs and a typed description explaining what actuaries do. The page includes sections on evaluating career fit and imagining job outcomes, decorated with icons like a light bulb, a power plug, and a brain, with colorful headings and prompts for user responses.

Actuary

A numbers career that frequently tops best careers lists.

Chef

Cooking up a creative career that starts in the kitchen.

A flyer about crime scene investigators. It includes a photo of police officers at a crime scene in a park, yellow police tape marked 'CRIME SCENE DO NOT' and text explaining the role of CSI, along with sections for career exploration.

Crime Scene Investigator

The science of solving crimes.

Emergency Medical Technician

First responders to the rescue.

Entrepreneur

The business of being the boss.

Fashion
Designer

Start a new fashion trend.

A person wearing a lab coat, hair cap, gloves, and mask, working with colorful vegetables in a lab setting, with a microscope nearby.

Food Scientist

Get paid to play with your food.

An informational flyer about a career in health informatics management, featuring a woman pointing at a digital screen with charts and graphs, and text explaining the field, how to pursue it, and its relevance.

Health Infomatics Manager

Where numbers add up to good health care.

Physician’s Assistant

Providing front line patient care in
hospitals, clinics, and doctor’s offices.

Pilot

Take to the skies for a high-flying career.

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Robotics Engineer

High-tech artificial intelligence.