Activity 10 Community P 3

you like bestabout your job? Why did you choose this job?) Scheduleinterviews. Use a tape recorder or video recorder for eachinterview. Before the interviews, role-play and practice good interview skills. Sharethe interviews with the class. L' Cut out and match the cardson Attachment2I to items they might use or need.play a quick game of concentrationwith the cards.Have studentsdraw aJditional items that each community helper might use and sharewith a partner. M' Ask studentsto sharewhich community helper they wonder most about. Create a tally chart to show what everyoneis wondering. cr"ut" a bar graph of communif hetpers whom studentsare most interestedin leaming more about.

Closure Distribute Attachment22 andask studentsto pick a community helper they like. Have studentsillustrate the helper on the attachment.Next to the illustration, have students draw or write the namesof four items that their community helper.rr", to p.rior- his or her job. For example, a firefighter usesa hatchet,hehnet, hose, and o*yg.r, turrk.

Extensions A' Ask someoneto speakto the class about how he or she is a community Ask the ' helper. r person to sharefour items that help rnith the job. B' Ask studentsto draw their family on the next page of their joumal. Ask studentsto shareone way their family, or individual family **rb"rr, contribute to their community. C' Ask studentsto pick the community helper they like best. Hand out journals and ask studentsto draw themselvesas this community helper. Ask students to determinewhat they have in common with the person on theirdra*ing. Seeif students can identify a 'similarity. It can be a physic alirut, a job, a hobby, unld"u, or somethinselse. I

Assessment Assessthe Closure activity. Check for understandingof community helpers. Use the Evaluation Rubric on Attachment 3.

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