Elementary Menu of Services
K-2 Students
- Career Exploration: Students will be able to identify their interests and relate them to careers, describe jobs they find interesting, and explain how people can make a difference in their community through their career choice.
- Fixed vs. Growth Mindset: Students will be able to define a fixed and growth mindset, explain the benefit of a growth mindset, and describe how practicing a growth mindset can help strengthen their brain to learn something new.
- What Is College: Students will be able to explore their ideas of college, expand their vocabulary as it relates to basic college-related terms, and describe their interest in attending college.
3-5 Students
- Fixed vs. Growth Mindset: Students will be able to define fixed and growth mindsets, explain the benefit of a growth mindset, and practice strategies for developing and maintaining a growth mindset.
- Majors and Careers: Students will be able to define college majors and careers, provide examples of types of careers that exist, and make connections between college majors and possible careers.
- SMART Goals: Students will be able to identify the five characteristics of a SMART goal, explain why the SMART strategy sets them up to achieve their goal, and write a SMART goal that relates to their life.
- Stress and the Brain: Students will be able to identify stress in their body, use mindfulness to eliminate stress, explain how stress might impact their brain, and identify the changes that happen in their brain when they are stressed.
K-5 Parents
- College Prep Tips for the Elementary School Parent: This presentation provides tips on integrating college and career topics into everyday conversations, making college more affordable for your student, strengthening your student’s executive skills to help prepare them for college and career success, and allowing your student to picture themselves on a college campus.
- Preventing Summer Melt (only offered in spring): This presentation helps parents understand the facts around summer learning loss, how their students might be impacted by summer learning loss, and what can be done to prevent summer learning loss in elementary students.
- Soft Skills for Success: Elementary school is the perfect time for parents to help their student(s) build foundational soft skills. This presentation addresses communication, adaptability, self-monitoring, and empathy as non-academic skills children need to succeed in school and life. Having good soft skills serves students at all stages of life - in school, at home, and in their future careers.
- The Truth About College: This presentation addresses the reality of the following common misconceptions about college: I can’t afford to send my student to college, I have time before my student needs to think about college, a college degree isn’t worth it anymore, my student is not college-bound, and I can’t talk to my student about college - I didn’t go.
Additional Information
Early Outreach staff is happy to attend other school events pending availability. Consider including UNLV Early Outreach in your family nights, college fairs, career days, or other special events!