Soft skills, or employability skills, are essential no matter what career path your students choose. Depending on your program focus, however, incorporating soft skills practice opportunities into your curriculum can be difficult. These soft skill activity cards were written by industry professionals to help you provide those learning opportunities no matter how much time you have. Use them to as quick icebreaker activities or as longer discussion or reflection activities to expose your students to soft skills within specific career pathways. Keep reading to see the 10+ soft skill activity cards we recommend all teachers have in their back pocket this year (and learn how you can access free downloadable scenario cards for your classroom).
If you teach Health Science topics:
Nursing Career Scenario Cards
Designed to supplement nursing skill instruction, these pathway/occupation-specific workplace scenario cards cover real-world situations any nurse will face in their career. Complementary workbooks are also available! Check them out here.
Nursing Career: Geriatric Patients Scenario Cards
If you’re looking for more ways to help your students learn soft skills specific to geriatric care careers, these scenario cards are for you. They include real-world situations that focus on working with geriatric patients to help students practice soft skills. Workbooks are available, too! Check them out here.
EMT Scenario Cards
Great for anyone who teaches Emergency Medical Service skills, these cards use real-world situations from EMT careers to help students practice important soft skills. See them here.
Medical Assistant Career Scenario Cards
Use these cards to develop common, real-world soft skills in medical assistant careers. Learn more about these cards here.
If you teach Agriculture topics:
Agriculture Employability Scenario Cards
If you teach bovine care, animal husbandry and other agriculture topics, these scenario cards are for you. Your students will learn valuable soft skills as they navigate the agriculture career-specific scenarios on each card. See them here.
Vet Tech Scenario Cards
If you address veterinary skills in your classroom, these scenario cards are for you. Your students will learn valuable soft skills as they navigate the vet tech job-specific scenarios on each card. Learn more here.
Horticulture Career Scenario Cards
Generate real-life discussions about the soft skills needed in horticulture careers with these scenario cards. Each card is tailored to job-specific scenarios providing meaningful soft skills development. Explore the cards here.
If you teach Family & Consumer Sciences topics:
Child Care Career Scenario Cards
As your students problem-solve the child care career-specific scenarios on each card, they’ll develop important soft skills they can use to succeed while working in a child care settings. Learn more here.
Interior Design Scenario Cards
Prepare your students for successful interior design careers with these job-specific activity cards, which feature soft skill scenarios unique to interior design job situations. See them here.
Culinary Employability Scenario Cards
These scenario cards (and available workbooks) use real-world situations from culinary careers to offer relevant, engaging soft skills practice opportunities. Check them out here.
Textiles and Fashion Apparel Career Scenario Cards
Great for soft skills growth, these scenario cards cover real-world situations in textiles and fashion apparel careers. Explore these cards here.
Food Processing, Production, and Safety Career Scenario Cards
These pathway/occupation-specific workplace scenario cards cover real-world situations in food processing, production, and safety careers. Get more information about these soft skills cards here.
If you teach Trade Skills topics:
Welding Employability Scenario Cards
Add soft skills practice to your welding lesson plans with these welding career-specific cards, which feature real-world scenarios written by industry professionals in the field of welding. Check them out here.
Manufacturing Career Scenario Cards
Incorporate soft skills into your manufacturing courses with these ready-to-use cards, which use manufacturing job-specific scenarios to get your students thinking about employability skills. See them here.
Construction Career Scenario Cards
Supplement your construction lesson plans with these workplace scenario cards that cover real-world situations in construction careers. Learn more here.
Electrician Career Scenario Cards
Generate real-life discussions about the soft skills needed as an electrician with these scenario cards. Each card is tailored to job-specific scenarios providing meaningful soft skills development. Explore the cards here.
Free downloadable career scenario cards
Wondering how these scenario cards could impact your curriculum? We’ve made free samples available so you can check them out. Use the single activity card in each sample to preview the activities featured in our complete career scenario card sets.
Access your samples here.
Learn more
Ready to learn more about soft skills training learning aids? Use these resources to:
- Use the link above to download free samples of our career scenario cards
- View an on-demand demonstration of our new Online Employability Skills Program or Online Leadership Soft Skills Program
- Download a free guide, “5 Ideas for Incorporating Soft Skills Into Any Classroom”
