Community Workers

Make a Community Almanac	Comparing Communities	Community Close-Up Brochures	Students Create a Virtual Tour of Their Community	Building a Working Community in the Classroom: One Teacher's Experience
Delivering the Goods in this lesson you will learn about the difference between the producers of goods and services	Dog Gone Job watch a video of a business and talk about the types of jobs that you saw. You'll also complete a drag and drop activity to help you learn about job specialization.	I Can Dream Anything this lesson is based on the song, "I Can Do Anything." You will discover that you can do many different things, but you can't do them all! Choices have to be made!
Where I Live - Children will identify specific characteristics of their own neighborhoods.	EconEdLink - Woof Woof at your service. Draw a picture of local businesses.	EconEdLink - Who pays for City Hall? Find out who pays for city jobs in your community.	City, Suburb, or Country - In this activity students make a picture web to describe a place. Students discuss the characteristics of life in the country, in a suburb, and in a city. Students compare and contrast general environmental differences, and explore their immediate environment.	EconEdLink - Learn about several types of jobs in the community.
Community Helpers - It takes many jobs for a city or a town to work as a community.	Firefighters This lesson teaches the profession of fire fighters and the jobs they do.	Members in Our Community This lesson teaches students about the different members and professions in our community. Grades 2-3	Dream of a Career-EconEdLink What would you like to be? I can dream of anything.	Careers-EconEdLink What do other people want to be?
Keeping Our Community Clean (Grades PreK–K)	Teach Now! Communities - This theme builds on students' expanding knowledge of their own communities by allowing them to explore their roles and the roles of others.	Community Patchwork (PreK)	Reading Our Neighborhood (Grades PreK–K)	Mapping Your Community (Grades 1–2)
First-school's First Community helpers - Included in this website are several craft ideas on community helpers.	First-School Activity: Community Helpers-Police Officer - Included in this website are several craft ideas on the community helper-the police officer.	Community Helpers	Community Helpers - Teaching theme from Teach-Nology	Who keeps us safe and healthy? - In this lesson students go to the Internet to discover that police officers, firefighters, doctors, dentists, parents, and teachers do these important jobs.
Kid City USA - In this lesson, the students will think about where they live and where they would want to live if they could build a "model community"	Scavenger Hunt Scrapbook	Who Helps? - Children develop their understanding of how their families function and renew their appreciation for various family members.	My Community	Community Close Up Brochures - In this activity, students express a personal view of land areas as well as buildings, schools, stores, and cultural events that make their community unique.
A Web of Workers - This activity emphasizes the interdependence of workers in the community.	Our Community Helpers	What Do Other People Want to Be? in this lesson, you will graph people's job choices and identify what goods and services each job provides	What Do You Want To Be? in this lesson you'll learn about several types of jobs and have the opportunity to decide which of these you might want to be when you grow up	Who Pays for City Hall? learn about the services city hall provides and who pays to make there services available
Woof Woof At Your Service explore local businesses

Communities Lesson Plans