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“Guess Who” Occupation Cards
Objective:
The student will guess which
occupation the teacher is People:
describing. This activity is more This lesson is designed for 1:1 instruction with a teacher or therapist.
advanced and should be done after
the students have successfully Set up:
completed several rounds of the Decide which cards you would like to work on with your students.
“Tell me About” exercise using the Occupations with which your student is already familiar work best for this
Occupation Cards. activity. Depending on the content you are teaching in class, you may
decide to choose workers your student is likely to see on an upcoming
Skills practiced: community trip, athletes, workers you see in a school, etc. Note that each
• Job identification occupation shows male and female workers.
• Understanding of tools used for Sit across from your student at a table or desk so that you can keep cards
certain jobs under the table or out of view from them when they are guessing the
occupation you are describing.
• Recognition of identifying
features of particular workers (i.e., Procedures:
uniforms)
1. If your student is already familiar with the “Tell Me About” lesson plan
• Increased awareness of helpers (which is recommended), remind them how that activity works and
seen in the community let them know that today things will be switched around so that the
• Part-to-whole relationship teacher will be giving the descriptions and the student will guess the
worker the teacher is talking about.
• Vocabulary development
• You might say, “Sometimes when we use these cards I name a job
and you tell me about it. Today we are going to do it the other way
around: I will tell you about a job and you will guess the job I’m
talking about.”
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Guess Who
2. Model what you’d like your student to do by 5. Begin to describe the worker in the picture with 3
choosing a card (for example, firefighter, #44) and or 4 statements.
placing it on the table facing your student.
• For example, “I’m thinking of a worker who
• Tell your student that in a minute you won’t let wears a badge, drives a car with flashing lights,
them see the card, but that it is okay for them to and can help people who are in trouble.”
see it now.
6. Then ask your student to, “Guess who it is.”
• Then tell your student about the worker (for
example, “The firefighter drives a big red truck”; • Depending on your student’s vocabulary,
“The firefighter carries a hose”; “The firefighter encourage them to use complete sentences to
wears a special uniform to keep him safe”.) Then talk about the worker.
ask what job you were describing.
–– i. “You’re thinking of a police officer.” rather
• Because your student can see the card on the than, “Police officer.”
table, they should easily be able to identify the
occupation you were talking about. • If your student has trouble guessing the worker,
feel free to show them the photo and restate
• You may choose to model a few cards in your descriptions.
this manner until you feel that your student
7. Repeat for the remainder of the cards.
8. Shuffle and repeat.
9. For a more advanced variation of this lesson, place
2 or 3 occupation cards (one of which is the worker
you are describing) face up on the table in front of
your student. Describe the card as before, perhaps
using statements which could be true for more than
one of the workers to make it more challenging
for your student to determine the worker you are
describing.
• For example, if you are describing the
veterinarian, #109, you could show that card
along with the zoo keeper, #115, and the nurse,
#78. Statements about taking care of the sick,
understands what will be expected of them, working with animals, and working inside a
letting them know each time that they will not be hospital could be describing 2 of the cards, so
able to see the card once the lesson begins. students need to pay attention to other clues
in order to correctly guess the worker being
3. When the student understands the activity, let them
described.
know you are going to choose another card and
this time it will be a secret.
4. Choose a card (for example, police officer, #89)
and keep it from the student’s view.
