Community Helpers

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Community Helpers

• Tricia Rhodehamel.
• ED 417.

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Community Helpers.

• Unit Community Helpers.
• Lessons
• Community Helpers Overview.
• Doctor.
• Police Officer.
• Firefighter.
• Architect.
• Grade Level 1st Grade.

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Objectives.

• The students will understand what a community
  helper does.
• The student will learn about the many different
  community helpers in the world.
• The students will understand that we all have a
  role in our community.

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Objectives.

• The students will be able to explain what a
  community helper is and what he/she does.
• The students will be able to identify be able to
  name at least 3 community helpers in their
  community.

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Student Activity 1.

• Activity 1.
• Community Workers Overview.
• 1. Ask students if they know what a community
  helper is. If no one knows explain.
• 2. Read Community Helpers from A to Z by Bobbie
  Kalman and Niki Walker.
• 3. Have students pick one community helper. Draw
  a picture and describe the picture 1 to 4
  sentences.

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Materials Needed 1.

• Book Community Helpers from A to Z by Bobbie
  Kalman and Niki Walker.
• Paper. Half blank and Half Lined.
• Pencils, crayons or colored pencils.

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Student Activity 2.

• Activity 2.
• Doctor.
• 1. Ask students if they have ever been to the
  doctor. Ask them what the doctor does. Explain
  that a doctor is a community helper.
• 2. Read A Day in the Life of a Doctor (First
  Facts Community Helpers at work) by Heather
  Adamson.

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Student Activity 2.

• 3. Have students work in groups to brainstorm and
  help write a class story about what a doctor does
  for the community.

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Materials Needed 2.

• Book A Day in the Life of a Doctor (First Facts
  Community Helpers at Work) by Heather Adamson.
• Chart Paper.
• Marker.

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Student Activity 3.

• Activity 3.
• Police Officer.
• 1. Put students in groups of 3 or 4 and have them
  write down what a police officer does. Bring the
  group back together and have a whole group
  discussion.
• 2. Read Im Going to Be a Police Officer by
  Edith I. Kunart.

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Student Activity 3.

• 3. Have students get back into their groups and
  circle the ideas they wrote before that they
  heard in the book.
• 4. Have the groups pick one of those ideas and
  write a story together about a police officer.

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Materials Needed 3.

• Book. Im Going to Be a Police Officer by Edith
  I. Kunart.
• Paper.
• Pencil.

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Student Activity 4.

• Activity 4.
• Firefighter.
• 1. Pull out of a bag objects that relate to a
  firefighter and ask the students who uses these
  tools.
• 2. Read Fire Fighters by Norma Simon.

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Student Activity 4.

• 3. Have students write a short story about what a
  firefighter does and use the objects introduced
  at the beginning of the lesson in the story.

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Materials Needed 4.

• Book. Fire Fighters by Norma Simon.
• Bag.
• Objects Fire truck, Helmet, Hose, Fire Hydrant,
  Ladder.
• Paper.
• Pencils.

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Student Activity 5.

• Activity 5.
• Architect.
• 1. Show students a set of blueprints. Ask them
  what they are and who makes them. Explain that an
  architect is a community helper.
• 2. Read A Day in the Life of an Architect (The
  Kids Career Library) by Mary Bowman-Kruhm.

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Student Activity 5.

• 3. Have students draw a blueprint of the
  classroom or their house.

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Materials Needed 5.

• Book. A Day in the Life of an Architect (The
  Kids Career Library) by Mary Bowman-Kruhm.
• Blueprints.
• Paper.
• Black and Blue Colored Pencils or Crayons.
• Pencils.

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Doctor.

• A doctor takes care of us when we are sick. He
  gives us medicine and tells us how we can get
  better.

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Police Officers

• A police officer helps to keep us safe. He keeps
  the bad guys off of the street and makes sure we
  are very safe.

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Firefighter.

• A firefighter protects us if we have a fire. He
  comes to help us get out of the building and put
  out the fire.

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Architect.

• An architect draws plans for our houses. These
  are pictures of the house so that the
  construction worker (who builds the houses) knows
  how it should look.

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Web Sites.

• Bens Guide to U. S. Government for Kids.
  http//bensguide.gpo.gov/k-2/neighborhood/index.ht
  ml
• Community Club. http//teacher.scholastic.com/comm
  club/
• Kids Next Door Where Kids Can Learn More About
  Being Good Citizens. http//www.hud.gov/kids/

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Web Sites.

• Our Community Helpers. http//comsewogue.k12.ny.us
  /rstewart/k2001/Themes/community/helpers.htm
• People, Places, Things that Help Me.
  http//kidshealth.org/kid/feel_better/index.html