Helpers in your community

By: Amanda Jones EDE 417Grade 3

Dr. Ronald Helms April 23, 2007

Social Studies • Grade 3

• Unit Community helpers

Objectives

• The students will be able to identify helpers in our community. They will also learn what the community helpers do in the community.

• They will use technology to develop a better understanding of what the community helpers do for the community.

Community Helpers

• Firefighter • Police • Teacher • Major• Postal worker • City Counsel• Nurse • Doctor

Helpers cont…

• Dentist

• Trash collector

• Librarian

• Plumber

• Electrician

• Construction worker

Materials

• Pencil

• Paper

• Computer

• Crayons or colored pencils

• Books about community helpers and workers

Activity #1

• The students will go onto the website www.bls.gov/k12/ .

• When they get to this website they will click on what they like to do, whether it is math, reading, sports or music.

• When they click on the specific topic it will give them options of what type of job they will like to do.

• When they decide what job they want to do then they will write a paper to describe their new exciting job that they wish to do some day.

Report

Activity #2

• The students will use the information that they have found on their job to make a book

• We will take each of the students reports and put them into a book, full of information for the students to look at any time in the classroom.

• They will draw a picture to go along with their job description.

Classroom Book

Activity #3

• We will have a guest speaker come into the classroom.

• They will discuss what their job is in the community.

• The students will listen to the presentation and when it is finished they will ask questions.

• After the presentation is over the students will have the opportunity to write a friendly letter to the speaker. They will explain their likes dislikes and whatever else they feel is important to write down.

Friendly letters

Dear Guest Speaker

55 Guest Ave

Unknown, Oh. 12345

Activity #4

• The students will print off a picture of their favorite community helper.

• They will write down what they know about their community helper and then write what they already know about their community helper.

What do I know?

Activity #5

• The students will hold a classroom election.

• During this election they will discuss what they know about the parts of the local city government.

• The students will write speeches to convince their fellow students that they are the right person for the job.

Election

Activity #5 cont…

• The student’s will be voting for many different types of community jobs.

• Everyone will get a job in the community.

• Their speeches will help them to get the jobs that they want the most.

Activity #6

• The students will visit a post office

• At the post office the students will learn what goes on in the postal service.

• They will take the letters they wrote to the guest speaker and learn what happens to get the letters mailed out to the correct location.

Post Office visit

Websites

• www.bls.gov/k12/

• http://www.apples4theteacher.com/socialstud.html#communityhelpers

• http://teacher.scholastic.com/commclub/firefighter/index.htm

• http://teacher.scholastic.com/commclub/officer/index.htm

• http://www.primarygames.com/social_studies.htm

The End