Community Helper Riddles

Learning Context

 

Purpose

The purpose of this lesson is to teach students about community helpers. The students learn about different types of communities such as urban, rural and suburban communities. The students gain understanding that there are jobs in the community and this lesson introduces higher level vocabulary such as “occupations” and “community helpers”. The students apply their knowledge of community helpers to create a fun riddle book. The students develop a better understanding about community helpers in their neighborhood and even visit their local Fire Department as an extension. The students also participate in a community helper project to research a community helper of their choice. This lesson integrated both ELA and Social Studies.

Objectives

1) The student orally lists different community helpers that are found in their community to complete a web with 90-100% accuracy. (Recalling)
2) The students create a riddle book of their favorite community helper with 90-100% accuracy. (Creating)
3) The students describe in writing, facts about the community worker that they drew with 90-100% accuracy. (Remembering)

Supporting Objectives

1) The students orally define community helpers with 90-100% accuracy.
2) The students recall information about community workers from the book Even Fire Fighters Hug Their Moms by Christine Kole Maclean with 90-100% accuracy. (Recalling)

Enduring Understanding

- Community helpers are people who provide a service in their community.
- Community helpers may wear certain uniforms, use certain tools, or drive specific types of vehicles.
-Community helpers exist is urban, suburban and rural communities.

Essential Questions

- What are the duties, uniforms, responsibilities, place of businesses and tools community helpers use?
- How do community helpers make communities better places to live in?
-What makes a community?

Guiding Questions:

-What is a community helper?
-What are some names of community helpers in your neighborhood?
-What kind of uniform does your community helper wear?
-What kind of tools does your community helper use?
-What kind of community helpers can be found in a rural community but not necessarily an urban community?
-What is an occupation?

Overview of What Students Need to Know

Prior to Learning Experience:
-Students have a background on how to write and read riddles from previous lessons
-Students know what kind of jobs are in their community.
-Students should know characteristics of jobs.
-Students have knowledge of some vocabulary words.
-Students have knowledge about how to write statements.
-Students have background knowledge on spacing of words, capitalization and punctuation.
-Students will be familiar with rules and procedures of the classroom.

During and After the implementation of the Learning Experience:
-Students are able to use a graphic organizer to organizer thoughts and ideas
-Students have a better understanding of spacing of words, capitalization and punctuation.
-Students understand how to create mini riddles to describe a community helper.
-Students become more aware of description words.
-Students have a better understanding about who community helpers are and what they do for their neighborhood.

Key Subject-Specific Vocabulary:
-community: A group of people living together in one place
-urban: City with skyscrapers, taxi’s and buildings close together.
-suburban: Residential area in the suburbs. Houses are closer together than in a rural community.
-rural: The country with open spaces, fields and farms.
-community helper: A person to provides a service for their neighborhood.
-neighborhood: A district, esp. one forming a community within a town or city
-occupation: This is another term for a job.
-fire fighter: A community helper who fights fires. They risk their lives and save people from fires and accidents. They drive a fire truck, use tools and wear safety equipment to fight fires.

Classroom Rules

Classroom Rules

Letter home

Letter about Community Helper Project