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Kindergarten, Social Studies Std 4: Identify personal use of goods and services. • Demonstrating ways money is used in everyday life • Identifying various community helpers and their roles in the community

Lesson Plans: Career Collage Students will gather pictures from magazines that represent a variety of careers that they are interested in. The goal of this activity is to expose students to the numerous careers that exist in this world. The Jobs People Do Students match simple descriptions of work that people do and the names of those jobs with examples from the school, local community and historical accounts. Introduction to Community Helpers This is a introductory lesson to a unit on community helpers. It will begin to help students to identify different types of community helpers and the jobs they perform. Welcome to My Community! Students create a "Welcome to Our Community" brochure to display in the classroom. The American Revolution and George Washington The purpose of the lesson is to understand the causes that led to the Revolutionary War (focusing on taxes) and to recognize historical figures such as Washington and Jefferson.

Resources: Service Workers and the Services They Provide: Learn about the workers who serve our communities and the services they provide—police officers, fire fighters, sanitation workers, grocery clerks, and others. Discover that providing a service means doing something to help someone else. Hear simple explanations of the terms goods and services, consumers, and income, and learn why people work. Short video from United Streaming. People, Occupations, and Community: Enchanted Learning. Links to pages and activities for download and use. Community Club: Early readers learn about neighborhood workers. Click the workers to learn more about their jobs. Your Neighborhood : This site provides information about people in your neighborhood that are there to help you. Click on each building to learn about who they are and what they do. Suggestions for English Language Learners: (E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding) (E/B) Students draw symbols (or logos) for products, or describe products in the marketplace. (D) Students compare/contrast the attributes of two products. (E) Students state advantages of using one product over another. (E/B, D, E) Students sort pictures into goods and services. (E/B, D, E) Students use pictures to categorize human made or natural resources. (E/B, D, E) Students listen to worker from community tell what he or she does in the community.(E/B, D, E) Students work in a small group to make a product and sell it to others in the classroom or school.
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