Community Helpers

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Community Helpers

• Second Grade
• ED 417-01
• Kara Sharp
• Suzanne Thompson

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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

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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

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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.

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American Heritage
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Websites

• http//www.lessonplanspage.com/printables/PSSOMemb
  ersInACommunity12.htm
• A teacher resource page for activity.
• http//www.lfelem.lfc.edu/resources/sstudies/kinde
  r/commuhelpers.html
• An interactive community helpers website.
• http//www.perpetualpreschol.com/commart.html
• A teacher resource for activities.

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Websites

• http//www.lessonplanspage.com/printables/PSSOMemb
  ersInACommunity12.htm
• A teacher resource page for activity.
• http//www.ncpc.org/10act10.htm
• A website for an community helpers word scramble.

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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.

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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.

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People in Societies
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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/PSSOMemb
  ersInACommunity-Purposes1.htm
• A teacher resource.

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Websites

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

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Activities

• 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.

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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.

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World Interactions
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Websites

• http//www.lessonplanspage.com/printables/PSSCommu
  nityBrochures23.htm
• A teacher resource.
• http//www.lessonplanspage.com/printables/PSSCommu
  nityMapping2.htm
• A teacher resource.

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Websites

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

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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.

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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.

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Decision Making and Resources
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Web Sites

• Community Helper Art Activity http//www.perpetual
  preschool.com/commart.html
• Miscellaneous Community Helper Activity
  http//www.perpetualpreschool.com/misccomm.html
• Community Helpers http//www.perpetualpreschool.co
  m/misccomm.html

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Websites Continued

• Assembly Line http//www.eduplace.com/ss/act/assem
  ln.html
• OFCNs Academy Curricular Exchange-Social Studies
  http//ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/soc/cecsst/
  cecsst078.html

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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.

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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.

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Democratic Processes
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Websites

• Lesson ExchangeCommunity Helpers
  http//teachers.net/lessons/posts/1043/html
• The Ginger Bread Man http//teachervision.com/less
  on-plans/lesson-9.html
• Voting in Elementary http//205.146.39.13/success/
  lessons/lesson7/pssd3_l.htm

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Websites Continued

• Community Justice http//teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/Tl
  resources/longterm/LessonPlans/socjust/JUSTICE.HTM
  
• Socialstud http//school.aol.com/search/el_search_
  result.adp

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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.

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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.

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Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities
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Websites

• Miscellaneous Community Helper Activities
  http//www.perpetualpreschool.com/misccomm.html
• A Simulated Community http//www.lessonplanspage.c
  om/prin.../PSSBuildACommunity-CreateBuildingsStree
  tsIdea3.ht
• Community Helpers (Doctors/Nurses)
  http//faldo.atmos.uiuc.edu/CLA/LESSONS/2072.html

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Websites Continued

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

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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.

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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.

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Science, Technology, and Society
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Websites

• C.H.Science http//www.perpetualprescool.com/com_h
  elpers_science.html
• Communities of the Past http//www.lessonplanspage
  .com/print.../PSSLACommunitiesUnit-CommunitiesOfTh
  ePast3.ht

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Websites Continued

• Miscellaneous Community Helper Activities
  http//www.perpetualpreschool.com/misccomm.html
• Community Helper Activities http//www.perpetualpr
  eschool.com/misccomm.html
• Community Helper Activities(Plumbing)
  http//www.perpetualpreschool.com/misccomm.html

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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.

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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.