Community HelpersMarie Pitsenbarger

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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

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.

• Government2. Explain how a system of government provides order to agroup 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 Methods1. Obtain information from oral, visual and print sources.

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/articles/chelp1.htm

Activity 1: Newspaper Search/ Collage

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

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Activity 1: Newspaper Search/ Collage

• Procedure:* Community workers have beenin the news recently. Have studentslook 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.

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

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?

Activity 3: Tour Time

• Materials:-notebooks-pencils-list of interview questions

http://www.hud.gov/kids/job1.html

Activity 3: Tour Time

• Procedure:*Visit a local post office, fire station, or other community helper’s 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.

Activity 4: Writing Assessment

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

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.

Activity 5: Community Helper Bingo

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

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.

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

Community Helper SongChorus:

Community Helper That’s what I am.I’m in the neighborhood doing what I can.Community Helper That’s what I am.I’m 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 flu…Come see me I’ll tell you what to doYou might take a pill, you might get a shotLet me feel your head. Whoah, that's hot!

Repeat ChorusVerse 2:

I am a fireman. I am here to help you ..If you see fire or a cat in a tree, D ial 911 that’s how you get me..Your shirts on fire, stop drop and rollI don’t care if you’re 90 years old.

Repeat Chorus

Verse 3: I am the policeman. I am here to help you If you get lost don’t know what to do Just talk to me and I’ll show you I help good people take the bad ones to jail Put the handcuffs on, and we throw ’em in a cell.Repeat ChorusVerse 4: I am the mail carrier. I am here to help you I bring you the mail, and I pick it up too. I’m postal, that what I do Raining, hot, cold or snow Nothing stops the mail from going I can’t see your address when I’m in the fog.Repeat Chorus

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

Websites

• Fire Station Virtual Tourshttp://www.kent.k12.wa.us//curriculum/vtours/fire/tour.html

• Our Community Helpers (additional resources for lessons)http://comsewogue.k12.ny.us/~rstewart/k2001/Themes/community/helpers.htm

• Community Helper Resource Pagehttp://t3.pacific.edu/teams/M037906/resourcepage.html

More Websites

• Printable Community Helper Word Searches and other Games http://www.apples4theteacher.com/word-finds/community-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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