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EconEdLink - Do I Look Like I’m Made of Money?

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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) resources to set your career exploration in motion.

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How can BLS help me explore careers?

Whether you are gearing up to enter the workforce, exploring different career paths and options, or educating others on the world of work, BLS has the information to assist with your career journey! Those resources range from on job, pay, and employment data and publications to assist you in making better informed career decisions. We're here to help!

BLS career tools

The Occupational Outlook Handbook, CareerInfo app, and Career Outlook are helpful tools for students, career counselors, jobseekers, and others.

Occupational Outlook Handbook

The Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) is the government's leading career resource about the job market. The OOH provides information that covers most jobs in the economy. It highlights key characteristics of occupations, such as job duties, work environment, wages, number of jobs, job outlook, and the education and training that jobseekers need.

Career Information App

The OOH CareerInfo app is available on Apple iOS and Android devices.

CareerInfo presents data and other details from the Occupational Outlook Handbook ( OOH), the most popular BLS resource for career information.

The CareerInfo app, like the OOH, helps you find information about employment, pay, job outlook, education and training, and more for hundreds of detailed occupations. You can browse by occupational groups and titles or search by occupation or keywords.

Career Outlook

This publication highlights occupations and industries in a variety of ways, including interviews with workers in unusual careers and charts showing expected employment change in industries. Career Outlook articles include information on employment projections, pay, typical education and training required, and more.

Career Outlook has four departments:

Feature articles present an in-depth look on a range of career topics.

You're a what? explores unusual occupations through the work of someone in that occupation.

Interview with a... describes, in question and answer format, one worker's career path.

Data on display is a graphic presentation of data on employment and other topics.

Career Outlook supplements the Occupational Outlook Handbook.

These are just a sample of featured articles that appeared in this publication:

Career materials for students

BLS K-12

The K-12 webpage is devoted to helping you discover valuable information about the economy and jobs that you can share with your students. Below are some of the K-12 resources geared towards learning about careers.

Students can explore careers based on their interests. They will learn about the education and skills necessary for various careers, as well as the pay, job outlook, work environment, and more!

This classroom activity is designed to encourage your students to begin thinking about their future careers. This activity helps you to learn more about various occupations that may be of interest to you.

For career seekers interested in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), this is a resource for you. Browse pay and employment data for various STEM careers.

Access free posters with information about occupation groups, such as protective service, media and arts, healthcare, and more!

Watch videos exploring different careers, including architect, dentist, and veterinarian.
O*net career videos.
You've got questions? BLS has answers!
1. How much does a lawyer make?
Check out how much lawyers make across the United States: www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes231011.htm#st.

You can find information about pay for other jobs in other areas at www.bls.gov/oes/tables.htm.
2. Will there be more jobs for nurses in 5 years?
For the job outlook in nursing, see for example, registered nurses: www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/registered-nurses.htm#tab-6.
3. I'm interested in the arts. What types of jobs should I explore?
You can find information about careers in the arts in the Career Outlook article, Careers for people who are creative.

4. I'm not sure about going to college. What options do I have?.

There are many options available to you. Explore various occupations in Career Outlook articles:

Also, for occupations requiring different educational levels read the article, High-wage occupations by typical entry-level education, 2017.
5. Whom do I contact for more career information?
Call us at 202-691-5200 or email us at blsdata_staff@bls.gov.

More career resources

Check out these other helpful websites.

CareerOneStop offers many useful resources to explore careers; find training and employment opportunities; develop career goals; help with resume writing, applications, and interviews; compare wages by metropolitan areas; and find your perfect job!

Interested in working for the U.S. federal government? USAJOBS connects jobseekers with federal employment opportunities across the United States and around the world.

In addition to detailed information for nearly 1,000 occupations, O*NET has assessment tools that help guide you towards careers that best fit your interests and skills.

My Next Move lists the fastest growing occupations according to your interests and gives information on the skills and training needed to perform the job.

Apprenticeships are opportunities to gain paid work experience, work with a mentor, receive classroom instruction, and earn nationally recognized credentials.

Job Corps helps eligible young people ages 16 through 24 complete their high school education, trains them for meaningful careers, and assists them with obtaining employment.

State governments have organizations that provide information about jobs and pay.

Need more help?

For additional assistance, information, or copies of this material in a pamphlet form, please feel free to contact our information specialists:

Telephone: 202-691-5200
Email: blsdata_staff@bls.gov
Twitter: @BLS_gov

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There may not be any math topic that is more relevant to our everyday life than that of money. It's essential that we teach our kids to add and subtract money, to use it wisely and understand how to handle their money! The book Pigs Will Be Pigs by Amy Axelrod is an excellent introduction to money for kids and helps them understand not only how to add money, but also to realize that it is finite. These Pigs will Be Pigs money lessons are intended to help kids think about whether or not they have enough to buy what they want to buy, as well as practice adding and subtracting.
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I love the Pigs Will Be Pigs books because they make math relevant and always show ways that we need and use math in our everyday life. If you haven't already, be sure to grab my free lessons to use with the book, Pigs in the Pantry, which explore math in the kitchen!

Pigs Will Be Pigs: Fun with Math and Money by Amy Axelrod

In the book Pigs Will Be Pigs , the Pig family wants to go out to eat, but doesn't have enough money. This sends them on the hunt for loose change around the house.

After reading through the story, let your kids go back through and keep track of how much money each family member finds to figure out the total. I've included two different organizers to help with this, depending on what you or your kids prefer.

The first page is simply a place to record things as they find them, and gives a little more freedom to figure out what to do with what they discover in the book. But if you like a little more structure, I've also included a table that organizes the information a little more for them.

Either way, the point is for them to record the different amounts of money that the pigs find, and then determine the total. Try to let them come up with the total on their own, as there are different ways to go about it.

Once they figure out how much money the Pig family has to spend, there is a page of discussion questions to go along with the story, which require using the restaurant menu in the book.

After answering those questions, I've created another extension lesson which allows for more practice.

This gives kids yet another chance to add up money, and then think about how much they can buy with that money. It's important for kids to understand that if they don't have enough money to buy something, they have to say no or buy something cheaper! 🙂

Each of these lessons flow from the book and require going in order as you determine how much money they have, how much they spend, and what's left.

They do not, however, have to be done all in one sitting! Maybe one day you just read the story. Then the next day let kids go through and tally up how much money they actually found, and answer the discussion questions. Then on the day after that, they could work on the "Dessert" lesson.

However you choose to use this, I hope it makes math fun and relevant to your students!
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Help your kids learn all about money with these FREE Pigs Will Be Pigs money lessons! This is great book introduces kids to adding money and making change!