Community Helpers

1. Community Helpers Second Grade ED 417-01 Kara Sharp Suzanne Thompson

2. Table of Contents • Introduction • American Heritage Activities • American Heritage Websites • People in Societies Activities • People in Societies Websites • World Interactions Activities • World Interaction Websites • Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities Activities

3. Table of Contents (cont.) • Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities Websites • Democratic Processes Activities • Democratic Processes Websites • Decision Making and Resources Activities • Decision Making and Resources Websites • Science, Technology, and Society Activities • Science, Technology, and Society Websites

4. Introduction • We feel it is important that students see how important community helpers are to a community, and the many different ways each community helper contributes.

5. American Heritage

6. Websites • http://www.lessonplanspage.com/printables/PSSOMembersInACommunity12.htm • A teacher resource page for activity. • http://www.lfelem.lfc.edu/resources/sstudies/kinder/commuhelpers.html • An interactive community helpers website. • http://www.perpetualpreschol.com/commart.html • A teacher resource for activities.

7. Websites • http://www.lessonplanspage.com/printables/PSSOMembersInACommunity12.htm • A teacher resource page for activity. • http://www.ncpc.org/10act10.htm • A website for an community helpers word scramble.

8. Activities • Have students make individual mail boxes, write friendly letters, and deliver them to each other. • Have students compare the Pony Express from history and the United States postal system from today. • Have students use geometric shapes to make community helpers, such as a police officer, and then write a few sentences about their community member.

9. Activities • Plan a field trip to a dental museum. • Have a dentist come in and discuss and show differences between dental tools today and from history.

10. People in Societies

11. Websites • http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/soc/cecsst/cecsst078.html • A teacher resource. • http://www.perpetualpreschool.com/misccomm.html. • A teacher resource. • http://www.lessonplanspage.com/printables/PSSOMembersInACommunity-Purposes1.htm • A teacher resource.

12. Websites • http://wwwperpetualpreschool.com/commart.html • A teacher resource. • http://wwwperpetualpreschool.com/community.html • A teacher resource.

13. Have students make a community helper collage and then write a sentence about that person. Have students match ID cards and a picture of a community helper. Have an “occupation in a bag” day where students bring in anything that fits into a brown paper bag that would describe their parents job. Activities

14. Activities • Designate each week a different community helper. Have students dress like the helper of the week. • Have students determine similarities and differences in community helpers.

15. World Interactions

16. Websites • http://www.lessonplanspage.com/printables/PSSCommunityBrochures23.htm • A teacher resource. • http://www.lessonplanspage.com/printables/PSSCommunityMapping2.htm • A teacher resource.

17. Websites • http://www.teacherlink.usu.edu • A teacher resource. • www.lessonplanspage.com • A teacher resource. • http://askeric.org • A teacher resource.

18. Activities • Have students identify different community members and what tools they use. • Have students conduct an interview of a community helper. • Have students make a brochure for the community they are a part of.

19. Activities • Have students describe how they would tell a child from another country how to recognize a community helper. • Have students make a map and symbols of their community.

20. Decision Making and Resources

21. Web Sites • Community Helper Art Activity http://www.perpetualpreschool.com/commart.html • Miscellaneous Community Helper Activity http://www.perpetualpreschool.com/misccomm.html • Community Helpers http://www.perpetualpreschool.com/misccomm.html

22. Websites Continued • Assembly Line http://www.eduplace.com/ss/act/assemln.html • OFCN’s Academy Curricular Exchange-Social Studies http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/soc/cecsst/cecsst078.html

23. Activities • Students will make personalized doctor bags and will decided what they should put in them. • Students will decided who to write letters to and what they need to mail them. • Students will create a grocery store in class after talking with a grocer and decided what to make for dinner.

24. Activities Continued • Students will decided what is the best technique to use during a situation. ( example fire) • Students form an assembly line to make a picture to understand the assembly line production process.

25. Democratic Processes

26. Websites • Lesson Exchange:Community Helpers http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/1043/html • The Ginger Bread Man http://teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-9.html • Voting in Elementary http://205.146.39.13/success/lessons/lesson7/pssd3_l.htm

27. Websites Continued • Community Justice http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/Tlresources/longterm/LessonPlans/socjust/JUSTICE.HTM • Socialstud http://school.aol.com/search/el_search_result.adp

28. Activities • Students will draw a picture of a community helper and write down ways that person helps the community. • Students will tour the school and learn about the rules there are. • Students will take part in a mock election.

29. Activities Continued • Students will talk with a police officer about rules and laws that help to protect them. • Students will learn and sing a song about the Bill of Rights and learn about the people who helped to write it.

30. Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities

31. Websites • Miscellaneous Community Helper Activities http://www.perpetualpreschool.com/misccomm.html • A Simulated Community http://www.lessonplanspage.com/prin.../PSSBuildACommunity-CreateBuildingsStreetsIdea3.ht • Community Helpers (Doctors/Nurses) http://faldo.atmos.uiuc.edu/CLA/LESSONS/2072.html

32. Websites Continued • Fire Fighters at Work http://askeric.org/Virtual?lessons?Social_Studies?Civics?CIV0019.html • Creating a community based on real situations http://www.lessonplanspage.com/SSOJobsIn CommunityFrom Real SituationsInClassGoodIdea35.htm

33. Activates • Students will set up school community with jobs and community helpers. • Students will build a community using boxes. They will learn to work as a community to achieve a common goal. • Students will take a filed trip to the hospital to see doctors and nurses responsibilities.

34. Activities Continued • Students will discuss ways that police officers, firefighters, or different community helpers work together. • Students will run a “real life community” in class to learn about being responsible and respectful of other people.

35. Science, Technology, and Society

36. Websites • C.H.Science http://www.perpetualprescool.com/com_helpers_science.html • Communities of the Past http://www.lessonplanspage.com/print.../PSSLACommunitiesUnit-CommunitiesOfThePast3.ht

37. Websites Continued • Miscellaneous Community Helper Activities http://www.perpetualpreschool.com/misccomm.html • Community Helper Activities http://www.perpetualpreschool.com/misccomm.html • Community Helper Activities(Plumbing) http://www.perpetualpreschool.com/misccomm.html

38. Activities • Students will talk about the affects of sugar on their teeth and how a dentist can fix the them. • Students will survey people to see how the community they live in has changed. • Students will use computers to keep track of items bought in classroom shopping and money made from working in their community.

39. Activities Continued • Students will learn the tools that an architect, painter, landscaper etc uses to help build a community. • Students will learn how a plumber uses plastic plumbing pipes and other tools to make structures.