Summary
This lesson involves students learning about jobs within their community. Students researched these jobs using books and the website PebbleGo and recorded their findings in a graphic organizer. We also had several volunteers from within the community come to visit and talk about their jobs. Students took pictures of the volunteers with their iPads and created a StoryMap. Students also chose a job that they would like to have and illustrated it using Pixie. Students also dressed up as a community helper and performed a Reader’s Theater for older students.
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The teacher posed the questions “What is a community?” and “What is a job?”. Students defined the questions in their own words. The teacher then read the book “Helpers in My Community” by Bobbie Kalman. The teacher then wrote the definition of “community” on the board. Students were then asked to lists jobs from the book as well as jobs that family members may have. A list was made on the board. During rotations, students were exposed to books about different jobs at the “Read and Record” center. Students chose one book and recorded their finding on a Graphic Organizer Web. They listed job tasks, tools, uniforms. At another center, students went to PebbleGo.com to listen to facts about different jobs in the community. Student saw pictures and videos of people working at various jobs and how these jobs help the community.
Several members within the community were asked to come speak to students about their job and answer questions about what they do. Speakers included a nurse, police officer, dentist and author. The guest speakers talked to the students about their job and the tasks they performed, the tools they used, and the clothes/uniform they wore. They answered questions the students had. Students later worked with a partner of their choice to use pictures they had taken of the speakers with the iPad to create project in StoryKit.
The teacher read the book “When I Grow Up” by P.K. Hallinan. The teacher asked students to brainstorm some of the jobs that they had learned about, and list the ones that they would like to be on the board. Students then illustrated their jobs using Pixie, paper, or they filmed themselves in Photobooth describing what they wanted to be when they grew up. The teacher will printed out their work and displayed it in the hallway for other students to see.
Students also wrote sentences about their favorite community helper and performed a Reader’s Theater for older students while in costume.
