Activity 10 Community P 2

D' write the following title on the board and read it aloud.Ask the classto listen to the questions and determine which community member would help in each situation. I Wonder Who Would Help Who would help you if you got h;rt? (doctors) Who would help if there *"r" u fire? (firefighiers) Y.lo y9"td help if your pet were hurt? (veterinarians) pick uprrashln the neighborilood?(wastedisposar employees) Ylt" 1"1p. Who delivers your letters?(mail cinierst who would come if someonewere driving too fast? (police officers) Who would help you crossthe streetto get home frori school?(crossingguards) helps you learn at school? (teachers) {ho who would come if a.home security ararmwent off? (police officers) who would help you if you got home and no on" *urihere? (neighborsyour parents trust) who would help if your streethad a big pothole in the middle of it? (construction workers) E' Have each studentthink of a community helper not mentioned above, then describe the community helper for other studentsto identifr. F' Have studentsbrainstorm situations where they might neec help quickly. Lead studentsto the vocabulary-word emergency. Make a ilst of possible emergencieson the board, then work with studentsto catelorize the emil;;;i.r. G' Ask studentswho would help in each emergency. List the community helper to the side of eachemergency.Dictate each sentence as a causeand effect. For example, if the emergencywas a fire and studentsanswered firefighter, respond in the following manner: If there is afire, afirefighter would come to hetp. H' a fraw map on the board to show how far the fire station is frorn the school. Ask studentsto estimatehow long it would take for someoneto arrive in an emergency. Record the estimationson the board. call the station for an estimate,then comparethe answers. I' Divide studentsinto pairs. Assign each pair two or three emergency situations from the list madeearlier.Have pairs pru"ti". then role-play what they would needto do. J' Ask studentsto brainstorm other community helpers they are interestedin learning more about' Ask them: what community helpers you nnd in the school? what can we learn from community helpers?How are community "un helpers important? Do you think people who talk to the class about their careersare community helpers?If a veterinarian spoke to the class,what would he or she say that would make your community better? K' Have studentsinterview community helpers in the school. Generatethree or four genericquestionsfor studentsto ask. (Howdoes yourjob help the wt u, ao "o-rrr,rrrityi @McGee-KeiserAcademic Enrichment programs