This is a great way to teach kids responsibility and introduce them to different careers. The goal is to teach the students that having a great job also requires responsibility. This game can also be expanded by asking older children to identify other character virtues that are related to the jobs on the bingo cards.

Activity: Each child receives a bingo card with a variety of pictures, each with a caption corresponding to the job the picture represents. When a child "bingos", they are asked to give information about each profession and share a service it renders.

Variation: You can play this game in all the ways that bingo can be played such as covering the four corners, covering the sides, or requiring that all spaces be filled.

One way to make the activity more real would be to invite people from the community with different jobs come to the classroom and discuss the various responsibilities of their job.

Discussion: Ask the children how they would deal with the responsibility of one job listed on the bingo card. Link the discussion with types of responsibilities the children have now. Talk about how responsibility can be hard and that everyone has to practice being a responsible person.

Submitted by: Michelle Allen, CEA 4-H & Youth Development
County: Austin

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