
A full 5-day unit built on the current 14-cluster framework
The national model was modernized to 14 Career Clusters and 72 sub-clusters, and states began aligning to it in 2025-26, while almost everything else on the market still teaches the retired 16. This five-day unit teaches the current 14, names all 72 sub-clusters, and ships a 16-to-14 crosswalk so you can work from either list. With 14 printable posters, a 56-card sort, a gallery walk and a pathway planner.
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Everything in the Career Clusters unit, in one folder.
How the week runs.
What each cluster is, its sub-clusters, sample jobs with the education actually required, and the high school courses that start it. Behind them sits the full 72 sub-cluster index, which is the layer where findable jobs live.
Groups get the 14 cluster headers and sort 56 job cards before they read anything. Getting it wrong first is what makes the reference cards land afterward. The key names the five cards that always cause arguments and why both readings are defensible.
14 printable cluster posters go up around the room, and students visit eight or more on the gallery walk with a recording sheet. They stay up afterward and get pointed at during course selection.
An 8-question quiz on the framework with a written rationale for every answer, the Cluster Pitch performance task, and a five-criterion, four-level rubric with a score sheet, plus self-grading Google Forms™ versions.
Plus self-grading Google Forms™ versions of the quiz, the Cluster Pitch task and the note catcher.
14 clusters and 72 sub-clusters, plus a crosswalk for the old 16, because both lists will be in circulation for years.
The layer where findable jobs live. “Healthcare” is too broad for a student to act on; “Health Data & Administration” is something they can go look up.
Print the 56 cards on cardstock once and the deck works as a bell ringer, a sub plan and a review game.
Print once and your walls are done. The gallery walk is built around them and they stay up for course selection.
A Read-First guide and a five-day plan with a three-day short version mean about ten minutes of prep.
Print-ready PDFs plus three self-grading Google Forms™, including the one that ranks your class's interest.
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One download, five days planned, 14 posters and every key included.