Developed by:  Carrie Canada

Level:  K-2

Workers in the Community and School

Standards
 
 
 


Learning
Expectations

 This activity will help students acquire competencies which relate to the following standards:
   4.0  Career Awareness and Employment Readiness Skills
   5.0  Career Information and Career Goals
The student will:
   4.2  Define work and recognize that people work
   5.1  Identify jobs within the classroom
   5.2  Identify jobs of workers in the community
   5.3  Recognize the job tasks of school personnel and community workers

General Approach		 The general approach is that children will a community worker or school personnel mask which will be used in identifying the roles in workplaces and communities.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Activity Steps

 1.  Give each student a white piece of paper, crayons, scissors, tape, and string.
2.  Instruct the students to draw and color the face of a community worker or school personnel.  The students need to make the mask close to actual size.
3.  Under close supervision, have students cut out the faces with blunt scissors.  Be sure to discuss safety precautions pertaining to scissor use.
4.  Instruct students to tape each string to the side edge of the mask.
5.  Take up the community workers when students are finished.
6.  Have students sit in a circle.

Lead students through the following:

Each of the people you have drawn have special jobs they do in our community.  We have been studying about these special jobs and today we are going to play a game using what we have learned about our community workers.  I am going to ask a volunteer to come up and close their eyes.  I will put a mask on the volunteer.  The rest of the class will give clues and the volunteer will use these clues to guess which community worker mask he or she has on.  We will only give three clues to each volunteer.  Are there any questions?

7.  Have volunteers come up individually.  Have each volunteer close his or her eyes while one of the community worker masks is placed onto his or her face.
8.  Students in the circle must give the volunteer three clues as to which community helper mask they are wearing.  The volunteer must guess which community helper they are.

After all of the volunteers have participated, ask the following questions for discussion:

1.  Are there any other special jobs that our community members do?
2.  What jobs do you see your parents doing in our community?
3.  What jobs do you see your parents doing in your home?

Time Required		 This activity may require 30-45 minutes.

Resources Needed		 1.  White paper
2.  Crayons
3.  Scissors (blunt)
4.  Tape
5.  String

Performance
Indicators		 Students will be able to:

Explore diversity in school and community.
Discuss and describe various jobs within the school community.
Recognize that work has different meanings and all jobs are important.
Use information from technology and other resources to describe jobs within the school and community.
Recognize why jobs in the community are needed.