Resources : Benchmark 4

Understanding how to embed careers in the curriculum (2025)

Threading careers through the wider curriculum is key to developing impactful careers provision. This guide forms part of the 2025 'How to......' series from the Careers & Enterprise Company

Business Studies : Tesco Finance – Initiative for The Future Investment Business Case

We challenge you to change the future of retail. The challenge involves the creation of an investment business case, and accompanying presentation, within a number of fictitious retail scenarios.

Design Technology / Engineering : Skills Miner – Minecraft game

Skills Miner is a collection of four custom levels inside the Minecraft game. The players complete tasks, solve puzzles, and find logical solutions to problems. The intention is to uncover engineering skills in players, award them online badges, and direct them to meaningful “real-life” content to inspire a generation of engineers.

Creative Subjects : Discover Creative Careers

Funded by DCMS and led by industry, the Discover Creative Careers website is an online portal packed with information, resources, events to help young people explore roles in the creative industries

Modern Foreign Languages : AET and EKFB: Careers in MFL (French) resource

What is included: Fully resourced lesson plans for Year 7, 8, 9 and 10 with comprehensive teacher notes, student facing slides and guidance on extension and differentiation

The WOW Show

The WOW Show content provides virtual video encounters in line with Gatsby Benchmark 5 for young people to explore a significant range of workplaces and ‘meet’ near peers to understand what their jobs are really like.

Geography : My Environment My Future

My Environment My Future provides 6 lesson plans to enrich the teaching of the Urban Environments module in GCSE Geography.

Geography : AET and The National Trust: Careers in Geography resource

Year 7 resource: Customised maps for different users and places
Year 8 resource: More bluebells or more visitors - tough choices!
Year 9 resource: GIS and Carbon Capture: A 21st century approach to a 21st century challenge
Year 10 resource: The Decision Maker: Choosing a sustainable future for the Buscott & Coleshill Estates

English : KS3 English Careers in the Curriculum Resource

This fully resourced unit of work (8 – 10 lessons) is designed for learners in Year 7-8 and explores the world of work through an English lens.

English : National Teen Book Club

A first of a kind programme, bringing together 11 to 19-year-olds from hundreds of state schools and colleges, across every corner of the UK, to a shared virtual Book Club.
Over four weeks, young people will connect online from home, or from school or college with an educator, for our weekly event every Wednesday, 3.30pm to 4.30pm. 

English : AET and Tesco: Careers in English resources

Year 7 resource – looking at energy reduction in Tesco stores
Year 8 resource – ensuring inclusion and diversity in recruitment
Year 9 resource – can we identify trends and predict the future (Tesco marketing)
Year 10 resource – How can we evaluate the best moral position to take? (Tesco climate change managers)

Maths : Where Maths meets the World of Work

The AMSP has created exciting sets of resources to support Maths teachers to link curriculum learning to careers and which showcase the maths in different careers. Each resource contains a video paired with activities, so your students can get a real taste of what the job may entail.

Maths : AET and Pinewood Year 9 resource

Filling a Film Studio

How can you maximise revenue through occupancy?

This lesson could be placed at the end of a Mathematics unit on Percentages

Maths : AET and Pinewood Year 8 resource

How big is the table, how small is the White Rabbit’s house?

How can we use ratio & proportion when building sets & props?

Maths : AET and Pinewood Year 7 resource

This lesson could be placed at the end of a Mathematics unit on data and statistics

Introduction to Pinewood Studios: what happens at the studios etc. What are the different roles involved in making a TV show? What is Audience share analysis? Why is it important?

What does it mean to re-commission a series?

Maths : AET and Pinewood Year 10 resource

This lesson could be placed at the end of a Mathematics unit on Geometry & Shape.

What does the role of a set designer involve?

Why is it important for them to create 2D drawings before they start building a set?

 HS2 STEM Lessons inc SEND offer

HS2 have developed a new collection of STEM lessons and activities, to support teachers who would like to bring a careers context to curriculum learning. 

Augment ourselves resource – KS3

How could we augment ourselves? is a collection of practical STEM subject activities linked to employability skills and careers. Students will consider how amazing the human body is and look at how it could be adapted. The activities explore how science and engineering can be used to augment humans, from using nutrition to improve brain functionality to exploring wing designs to make humans fly.

Animal Adaptations – STEM subject activities – KS2 and year 7

Animal Adaptions is a collection of practical STEM subject activities linked to employability skills. Pupils look at how animals have adapted to cope with all sorts of conditions. They explore communication strategies, travel, camouflage and life in challenging settings, and look at the way humans can learn from animals

Shropshire Careers Vimeo Channel

40 videos made by local employers and businesses, showcasing professions and employability skills, making links to school subjects

BBC Bitesize – Careers

This well-known resource can be used to help contextualise the world of work alongside curriculum study – and support young people in making informed decisions

My Learning, My Future

My Learning, My Future is a suite of Benchmark 4 resources to support subject teaching staff, from over 20 subjects at KS3 & 4, to engage students in curriculum learning by highlighting the relevance of their subjects to future careers and opportunities.The aim of the resources is for students to see the relevance and value of subject curriculum teaching and learning and to be explicitly supported in making connections between subjects and pathways to positive transitions.

CEIAG cross curricular audit – Black Country

This resource, developed by the Black Country Skills Factory, helps Careers Leaders identify whether or not careers are embedded within curriculum subject areas.

Careers in Food & Drink

Brought to you by The National Skills Academy for Food and Drink, Tasty Careers is here to help you find a Tasty Career in the Food & Drink Industry.