EDE 417

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• EDE 417
• By Dan Whitley
• Grant Brown
• Veronica Newsome
• Christine Warwar
• Brittany Woniger

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Unit Community HelpersGrade 1stLesson
Learning About Community Workers

• Objectives To teach who the community workers
  are in our city. To teach the titles of these
  workers and the jobs they do for our town.

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Materials Needed

• Paper and writing utensils
• Book Community Helpers from A to Z
• Play outfits letter carrier, play money,
  mailbox, envelopes and stamps.
• Video Rickys Room Community Workers.

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Web Sites for Community Helpers

• http//ci.coe.uni.edu/uniquest/webquest/lewisl09/
• http//www.hud.gov/kids/whatsjob.html
• http//teacher.scholastic.com/index.asp
• http//www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/communityh
  elpers.shtml
• http//www.apples4theteacher.com/word-finds/commun
  ity-helpers.html
• http//www.atozkidsstuff.com/comm.html
• http//www.tlsbooks.com/communityhelpers.pdf
• http//homepages.ius.edu/JLOI/Community20Helpers
  20Web20quest.htm
• http//www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/
  history/comm/
• http//www.hummingbirded.com/community-helpers.htm
  l
• http//www.gmpdc.org/webquests/mcdowell/COMHELP.HT
  M
• http//www.edhelper.com/themes/communityhelpers_90
  .htm
• http//www.songsforteaching.com/shawnbrownshow/com
  munityservicehelpersmembers.htm

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Student Activities

• Writing Center- Draw a picture of yourself
  helping your community and write a few sentences
  to explain your picture. Tell us who you are,
  what you are doing, and how you help the
  community.
• Large Group Discussion and Read Aloud- Read the
  book Community Helpers from A to Z and discuss
  what community helpers do for us. Have the
  children name some community helpers and explain
  their jobs.
• Watch the video Rickys Room Community Helpers-
  have the children discuss in small groups how
  they are community helpers in their own
  community.
• Dramatic Play- Have children pretend they are at
  a post office. They will need to write letters to
  one another, pay for stamps with play money, and
  deliver letters to one another.
• Social Studies- Have the children develop a
  simple map of their own community displaying
  where the local police and fire stations are
  located.

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What is a Community?

• A community is a group of people who share
  services, buildings, and laws.
• A community can be a school, town, city, or
  neighborhood.

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What is a Community Helper?

• Community Helpers make communities cleaner,
  safer, and more pleasant for other people.
• A community helper is anyone in the community who
  helps others by providing a service of some kind.

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Police Officers

• Help keep you and neighborhoods safe.
• Make sure people follow the rules.
• Direct traffic and solve crimes.
• Call for help if anyone is hurt.
• Arrest people who break the law.

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Fire Fighters

• Fight fires in homes and other buildings.
• Drive fire trucks which have ladders and hoses.
• Respond to other emergencies, such as accidents.
• Do you know what to do if there is a fire in your
  house?

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Letter Carriers

• Deliver and collect our mail.
• At the beginning of each day they sort the mail
  and load it into their trucks.
• Work for the United States Postal Service.
• At the post office they sell stamps, boxes, and
  passports.

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Doctors

• Are there to help you when you are sick or hurt.
• Prescribe medications that will make you feel
  better.
• Examine you to find out what is wrong and to make
  you feel better.
• You see the doctor for checkups which are good so
  you dont get sick.
• If you get sick or hurt at school make sure to
  see the school nurse.

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Teachers

• Teach in a school.
• Explain information clearly.
• Coach and guide practice.
• Answer questions.
• Use all kind of materials.
• Demonstrate how to do things.
• Share what he/she knows.

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School Bus Drivers

• School bus drivers take children to school every
  day.
• Have routes to follow.
• Pick up and drop off the children at the same
  place each day.
• Can take kids on field trips.
• They get a special drivers license.

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Paramedics

• If there is an emergency they drive to where it
  is.
• Drive an ambulance.
• Take hurt people to the hospital.
• Treat people who are hurt.

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Librarians

• Buy, catalog books, and lend out materials to
  people in schools or public libraries.
• Use a computer to find information.
• Read to children.
• You can borrow books, magazines, CDs, and
  videos/DVDs.

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Utility Workers

• Work for a utility company.
• Use a manhole to get wires underground.
• Trucks lift workers up to get high wires.

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• Now that you know about the helpers in your
  community, what can you do to help out?