Community Helpers

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Community Helpers

• Marie Pitsenbarger
• ED 417

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Community Helpers

• Grade 2nd
• Objective Children will be able to identify the
  following community helpers and the roles they
  play through the services they offer.
• Fire Fighters Teacher
• Police Officer Trash Collector
• Nurse Postal Worker
• Doctor Librarian
• Dentist

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Standards

• Economics
• 3. Recognize that most people work in jobs in
  which they produce a few special goods or
  services.
• 4. Explain why people in different parts of the
  world earn a living in a variety of ways.
• Government
• 2. Explain how a system of government provides
  order to a
• group such as a school or community and why
  government is necessary including
• a. Making and enforcing laws
• b. Providing leadership
• c. Providing services
• d. Resolving disputes.
• Social Studies Skills and Methods
• 1. Obtain information from oral, visual and
  print sources.

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What is a Community?

• A community is made up of different groups of
  people who live and work together. The community
  has a specific location (it is in one place), it
  has rules and laws that people must follow and
  the people work together to solve their problems.
• http//www.funsocialstudies.learninghaven.com/arti
  cles/chelp1.htm

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Activity 1 Newspaper Search/ Collage

• Materials
• -newspapers/ magazines
• -scissors
• -glue
• -markers
• l

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Activity 1 Newspaper Search/ Collage

• Procedure
• Community workers have been
• in the news recently. Have students
• look through the newspaper or magazines for
  words and pictures of community workers.
• Have students use the words and pictures they
  found to create a collage
• Students should share collages and compile a
  list of all the community workers they found as a
  class.

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Activity 2 I am

• Materials
• Clothing and uniforms of community helpers
• Hats and other accessories worn by certain
  community workers
• Tools and props of community workers
• http//www.hud.gov/kids/job1.html

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Activity 2 I am

• Procedure
• Provide clothing, hats, and props
• for the various community workers.
• Allow children to role play different jobs and
  consider how the service they offer impacts
  others by completing the sentence I am
• Discuss with the students what it would be
  like if one member (community helper) was not
  there. What kind of effect would this have on
  the community at large?

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Activity 3 Tour Time

• Materials
• -notebooks
• -pencils
• -list of interview questions
• http//www.hud.gov/kids/job1.html

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Activity 3 Tour Time

• Procedure
• Visit a local post office, fire station, or
• other community helpers work.
• Take a tour
• Discuss with children the role of given
  community helper
• Have students interview community worker with
  previous established questions and record the
  answers.

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Activity 4 Writing Assessment

• Materials
• -Paper
• -Pencil
• -Organizational Chart
• (Four Square Writing)
• -Writing Checklist

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Activity 4

• Procedure
• Children will select three of the community
  workers from those discussed throughout the week
• Using the organizational chart, the child will
  write three ways that each worker helps the
  community
• The students will use the organizational chart
  to write about their selected community helpers.
• Students will edit their own work using the
  provided writing checklist.

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Activity 5 Community Helper Bingo

• Materials
• -empty bingo cards
• -writing utensil
• -bingo markers
• -job description cards for
• teacher

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Activity 5

• Procedure
• Students will fill in their empty cards with
• the names of community workers
• When completed the teacher will begin by using
  the job descriptions to tell of a service
  provided by a community worker.
• Students will identify the worker by the service
  or job description provided.

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Unit Books

• On the Town A Community Adventure by Judith
  Caseley
• Community Helpers from A to Z by Bobbie Kalman
• People Who Keep You Safe by Cathy French
• My Dentist by Harlow Rockwell

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Community Helper Song

• Chorus
• Community Helper Thats what I am.Im in the
  neighborhood doing what I can.Community Helper
  Thats what I am.Im in the neighborhood doing
  what I can.
• Verse 1
• I am a doctor. I am here to help you If you
  get a cold or the fluCome see me Ill tell you
  what to doYou might take a pill, you might get a
  shotLet me feel your head. Whoah, that's hot!
• Repeat Chorus
• Verse 2
• I am a fireman. I am here to help you ..If you
  see fire or a cat in a tree, D ial 911 thats
  how you get me..Your shirts on fire, stop drop
  and rollI dont care if youre 90 years old.
• Repeat Chorus

Verse 3 I am the policeman. I am here
to help you If you get lost dont know what
to do Just talk to me and Ill show you
I help good people take the bad ones to jail
Put the handcuffs on, and we throw em in a
cell. Repeat Chorus Verse 4 I am the mail
carrier. I am here to help you I bring
you the mail, and I pick it up too. Im
postal, that what I do Raining, hot, cold or
snow Nothing stops the mail from going
I cant see your address when Im in the
fog. Repeat Chorus
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More Songs

• I'm a Police Officer
• Sung to "I'm a little Teapot"
• I'm a police officerWith my star,I help
  peopleNear and far.If you have a problem,Call
  on me,And I will be thereOne, two, three!

I'm a Firefighter Sung to "I'm a little
teapot" I'm a firefighterDressed in red,With my
fire hatOn my head.I can drive the fire
truck,Fight fires, too,And help to make
thingsSafe for you.
http//www.preschooleducation.com/shelper.shtml
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Websites

• Fire Station Virtual Tours
• http//www.kent.k12.wa.us//curriculum/vtours/fire
  /tour.html
• Our Community Helpers (additional resources for
  lessons)
• http//comsewogue.k12.ny.us/rstewart/k2001/Theme
  s/community/helpers.htm
• Community Helper Resource Page
• http//t3.pacific.edu/teams/M037906/resourcepage.
  html

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More Websites

• Printable Community Helper Word Searches and
  other Games
• http//www.apples4theteacher.com/word-finds/comm
  unity-helpers.html
• Your Neighborhood (online tool for kids in
  learning about their community)
• http//bensguide.gpo.gov/k-2/neighborhood/index.
  html

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THE END!