Social Studies Lesson Community Helpers ED 417 01

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Social Studies LessonCommunity HelpersED
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• Nicole Rosati

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Social Studies

• Unit Community Helpers
• Second Grade

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Objectives

• Students will identify community helpers and
  their jobs in the community.
• They will understand the importance of each of
  these jobs in the community.
• Students will become aware of and appreciate many
  different jobs that make a successful community.

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Activity 1Who are Community Helpers?

• Community Helper Chart
• Teacher and students will create chart with class
  to determine what the children already know and
  want to know about community helpers.
• Read Aloud
• Teacher will read the book Neighborhood Helpers .
• After Read Aloud
• As a class, add to the chart about what new
  learning the class acquired from the text.

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Materials for Activity 1

• Book Neighborhood Helpers
• Chart paper
• Markers

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Activity 2 How did my letters get here?

• Set up a table with books about mail delivery,
  writing letters, receiving letters etc.
• Read the book Delivering Your Mail A Book about
  Mail Carriers by Ann Owen
• Discuss the process of mailing letters, sending
  them and receiving mail.
• Ask children if they have ever gotten a birthday
  card or letter from a friend, grandparent or
  other relative before.
• Discuss with the class the importance of the mail
  carrier and his/her job of delivering mail.

• Millie Waits for the Mail by Alexander
  Steffensmeier
• We Need Mail Carriers by Lola M. Schaefer
• The Post Office Book Mail and how It Moves by
  Gail Gibbons

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Activity 2 Continued

• Allow time for question and answers after reading
  the book.
• Have the children write a letter to a family
  member of their choice.
• Have them address their envelopes and add a stamp
  so they can be taken to the post office.
• If time allows during the week, take the students
  on a field trip to the post office to mail the
  letters.

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Materials for Activity 2

• Book Delivering Your Mail A Book about Mail
  Carriers by Ann Owen
• Writing paper for the letters
• Pencils, crayons (for pictures or illustrations)
• Envelopes
• Stamps
• Addresses provided by parents for the students to
  address and mail the letters.

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Activity 3Visit from Police Officer

• Invite a police officer to come and speak with
  the class to provide information on daily
  responsibilities, routines and to answer any
  questions the children may have about their job.
• Prior to the visit in class, have students write
  down one to three questions in their journals
  that they want to know about Police Officers.

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Activity 3 Continued

• After the Police Officer visit, make a chart with
  the class of all the new information they have
  learned about what a police officer does.
• To go along with our discussion about mail
  carriers, have the class write a collaborative or
  individual Thank You letter to the Police Officer
  for speaking in their classroom and state one new
  fact they learned.

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Materials for Activity 3

• Contact Police Officer to speak in class
• Journals
• Pencils
• Paper
• Envelopes
• Stamps

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Activity 4Stop, Drop Roll Fire Safety

• Read book I Want to be a Fire Fighter
• Go over Fire Safety with the students and discuss
  its importance.
• Get permission from school building principal to
  have a fire drill. (If this is not possible, talk
  with principal to allow second grade class to
  practice fire safety in case of a fire drill.)
• Use a carpet or mat to have the students practice
  Stop, Drop and Roll drills
• Give out I am Fire Safe certificates to the
  class after the days activities.

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Materials for Activity 4

• Permission for Fire Drill
• Carpet or Mat for Stop, Drop and Roll
• Certificates with each students name on it after
  fire safety drills.
• Book I Want to be a Fire Fighter

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Presentation SlideActivity 4 Fire Safety

• DROP
• ROLL

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Activity 5Community Helper Tools

• Formulate a list with the class of other
  important jobs in the community.
• Send a letter home to parents in a newsletter or
  separate asking for a tool that represents
  their job and role in the community
• Examples can be simple or more specific depending
  on what they feel comfortable bringing to school.
  Gavel, stethoscope, flashlight, rolling pin,
  paint brush, tooth brush, flower, food etc.

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Activity 5 continued

• Students will bring in the tool that represents
  their parents job.
• Each student will share with the class what their
  parents job is and how the tool is used. ( Let
  students know beforehand that if they would like,
  they can bring in notes from their parents to use
  in discussion about their jobs)
• Read Community Helpers from A to Z by Bobbie D.
  Kalman
• For independent work, have the students take out
  their journals and write about what their
  favorite community helper job would be, what they
  would like to do when they grow up.

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Materials for Activity 5

• Letter to Parents
• Parents participation for tool
• Book Community Helpers from A to Z by Bobbie D.
  Kalman
• Journals
• Pencils

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Web Sites

• http//search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnIn
  quiry.asp?zyEAN9780865054042itm1
• http//www.apples4theteacher.com/socialstud.html
• http//www.first-school.ws/activities/commhelper/p
  oliceofficer.htm
• http//www.pbs.org/teachers/
• http//www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/Social_Studi
  es/Civics/CIV0005.html
• http//www.readinga-z.com/newfiles/levels/lesson_p
  lans/d/community_helpers/communityhelpers_print.ht
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