Introduction
Curriculum (Content
Area): Social Studies
Grade Level Span: Kindergarten and First Grade
Purpose (Objectives)
1.
Students will
be able to identify
jobs in a community
2.
Students will
be able to identify
uses of tools for work
3.
Students will
be able to distinguish
between providers of goods and providers of services
Description (Summary
of plan):
This thematic unit
explores the students’ home and community surroundings. The children will become aware of their
family’s role in their neighborhood.
They will discuss the common daily needs and wants that we all need to
survive. They will identify how members
of their neighborhood come together to provide goods and services which meet
the necessities of their communities well-being. They will also trace paths that connect
community workers with their place of work, and the tools that are needed to
complete their jobs.
Teachers:
Here’s a list of web sites that will give you additional information
about community helpers.
Cyberkids
a website for students to share work and do fun activities
Down on the Farm in
Homestead, FL take a fieldtrip to a farm
Pre
School Education excellent recourses
for early childhood teachers
Occupations Graphics all kinds
of occupation clipart
CD ROM Shop order
products for early childhood students
A to Z Kids Stuff: Community
Helpers resources, recipes, art, links and more for community helpers
Special Education Thematic Units teachers can access thematic units for early childhood
Software:
- The CD-ROM “Busy Town”
features the characters from Richard Scarry’s books. This program
has twelve interactive environments all about places that provide goods
and/or services to residents in a city.
- The CD-ROM “Barney On Location
All Around Town,” allows the students to join cartoon characters as
they visit a park, a department store, a classroom, a hospital and many
other places around town.
- Web Workshop by Sunburst
- KidWorks 2
- Print Shop Deluxe
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