Job Wheel: Spin a Job for Career Day

Job wheel with 16 jobs, from teacher and chef to astronaut and vet. Spin a job for career day, a pretend-play game or a what-will-I-be writing task.

Career day
Writing
Pretend play

On this wheel

Teacher
Doctor
Firefighter
Chef
Pilot
Vet
Astronaut
Farmer
Engineer
Artist
Police officer
Scientist

Why use a job wheel

Sixteen jobs are on the wheel, from firefighter to game designer. Spin one, then find out what that person does all day and what they had to learn first.

Explore a job for career day
Each student spins a job and finds three facts about it.
Write “When I grow up”
Spin a job and write a day in that person’s life.
Play the job you spin
Little ones act out the job and the others guess it.

This wheel wears the Wheel-ementary theme: crayons on a chalkboard, push pins and a gold-star arrow. Your own copy keeps it, or pick another wheel theme.

How to use the job wheel

Click the wheel to spin it.
Wait for it to slow down and stop on a random entry. The winner pops up on screen.
Click “Hide & Respin” to take the winner out and spin again, so nothing is picked twice.
Click “Create your own job picker” to save your own copy, change the entries, and share or embed it.

All 16 entries on the job wheel

Teacher
Doctor
Firefighter
Chef
Pilot
Vet
Astronaut
Farmer
Engineer
Artist
Police officer
Scientist
Nurse
Builder
Librarian
Game designer

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this for classroom jobs like line leader?

No, this wheel picks grown-up jobs to learn about. For class helpers like line leader and door holder, use the classroom jobs wheel.

Can I add other jobs?

Yes. Click “Create your own job picker” and add the jobs you want to explore.

Is the wheel really random?

Yes. Every entry has a slice of the same size, and where the wheel stops is picked with your browser’s cryptographically secure random number generator (crypto.getRandomValues), so nobody can predict or rig the result.

Can I change the entries on this wheel?

Yes. Click “Create your own job picker” to save your own copy. You can then add, remove or rename entries, change the theme and spin settings, and share or embed your wheel.