AI-Powered Career Pathways

AI Career Convos

  • Grades 6-12
  • Standalone

Students explore a career by building it—designing a 360° workplace and configuring an AI professional to interview, ending in a Career Fair.

AI Career Convos
Grades 6-12
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Course Overview

AI Career Convos invites students to explore careers they're curious about by building them. Students choose a career, design an interactive 360° workplace scene, and configure an AI-powered professional who can answer questions about daily tasks, skills, and career pathways. The module culminates in a Career Fair, where students visit each other's worlds and practice interviewing AI professionals across different fields.
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AI Career Convos

Learning Goals

Students will:
  • Use AI as a research and career exploration tool to gather information about a career of interest.
  • Apply prompt engineering strategies to get more focused, useful AI outputs.
  • Configure an AI character with system instructions that shape its role and behavior.
  • Build an interactive 360° scene representing a real-world career environment.
  • Critically evaluate AI-generated information for accuracy, confidence, and potential limitations.

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CSTA Alignment

AI Career Convos is aligned to the CSTA K–12 Computer Science Standards, with emphasis on Impacts of Computing and AI literacy. Students explore how AI systems process instructions, critically evaluate AI as an information source, and apply computing tools to build interactive, personally meaningful projects.

Curriculum Standards Alignment

Course Resources

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Lesson Plans

Provides pacing suggestions, key vocabulary, discussion prompts, and differentiation tips to support student choice while ensuring alignment with learning goals.

Teacher Slides

These student-facing slides walk students through each phase of the project and include embedded prompts, key concepts, and workbook activities.

Career Fair Handout

A student guide for Session 3's Career Fair, with structured prompts for each career booth visited.

Spotlight Projects

Three pre-built AI Career Convos examples (Vet Technician, Elementary School Teacher, and Graphic Designer) for use as extra Career Fair booths or a class demonstration.

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