Kindergarten Community Helpers Lesson Plan (Learning through Play)

Topic: Community helpers

Objectives & Outcomes

• Students will be able to identify the different roles and responsibilities of community helpers, including: firefighters, police officers, doctors, nurses, and teachers.
• Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the unique duties and responsibilities of each community helper.

Materials

• Pictures or cutouts of different community helpers (e.g. firefighter, policeman, doctor, nurse, teacher)
• Copies of the "What Are the Roles of Community Helpers?" worksheet

Warm-up

• Ask students if they know what different community helpers do. Write their responses on the board.
• Ask students to name a community helper they know and what they do. Write their responses on the board.

Direct Instruction

• Show the picture cards of different community helpers and discuss what each one does.
• Ask students to share any personal experiences they have had with community helpers.

Guided Practice

• Divide the class into small groups and give each group a set of the picture cards.
• Have the groups work together to create a list of the different types of community helpers and how each one helps the community.

Independent Practice

• Have the students work individually to create a poster or collage (or any other project of their choice) that shows what community helpers do and how they help the community.
• Encourage the students to use the picture cards as a reference, and to include any additional information they learned during the lesson.

Closure

• Ask the students to share their posters or collages with the class.
• Ask the students to share one thing they learned about community helpers during the lesson.

Assessment

• Observe the students during the independent practice activity to assess their understanding of the different roles of community helpers.
• Collect and review the posters or collages to assess the students' ability to research and present information about a community helper.
• Administer a quiz to the students to assess their understanding of the basic information about three community helpers.