Teacher Education Lesson Plan Template

Teacher Candidate Tracie Coyne School Long Cane Primary School Date March 20th, 2017

Subject/Grade Level EEDA/ 1st Grade Start and End Time of Lesson 10-10:30

Description of Lesson: Who are the Community Helpers?

Lesson Title or Essential Question: Careers of Community Helpers

Curriculum Standards Addressed:

SC Curriculum Standard(s):
Standard 6: Write independently, legibly, and routinely for a
variety of tasks, purposes, and audiences over short and extended
time frames.

SC Academic Indicator(s):
6.2 Print upper- and lower-case letters proportionally, using appropriate
handwriting techniques.
6.3 Write left to right leaving space between words

Indicate how at least one the following are incorporated into the lesson:
EEDA:
Standard 1: Students will understand the relationship among personal qualities, education and training,
and the world of work
Identify different kinds of work
Recognize that men and women can have the same work

Fine or Performing Arts:

Standard 6: The students will make connections between the visual arts and other arts disciplines, other
content areas, and the world.
VA1-6.1 Identify similarities and connections between the visual arts and other subjects in the school
curriculum.

Accommodations required in this class:

There are no students with IEPs or 504 Plans in this class.

Instructional Objective(s) Criteria: Assessment(s) of the

After communicating with partners about what
community helpers are and do the teacher will
explain what community helpers are and how their
careers affect the community. Students will then be
able to identify the careers and write/ illustrate what
they want to be when they grow up with 100%
accuracy.
Objectives:
Before: Turn and talk about what a
community helper is and does.
During: Students will identify the
community helper jobs based on
the uniforms and clues.
After: Students will complete the
sentence when I grow up I want to

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 be a and illustrate a picture of
themselves in that profession.

Materials/Resources:
Slates
Markers
Slate Erasers
SmartBoard
Brain Pop Jr. video- https://jr.brainpop.com/socialstudies/communities/communityhelpers/
PowerPoint
When I Grow Up paper
Pencil
Eraser
Crayons

Procedures Differentiation
To begin the lesson, students will sit at their desks.
Students will turn and talk:
o What is a community helper?
o After youve discussed what a community
helper is, talk about what are some things a
community helper does.
The teacher will walk around to check for student
understanding and focus
The teacher will define what a community helper
is:
o A community helper can be defined as any
person who helps with our health and
overall well-being [in the community].
(Google.com)
The teacher will show a BrainPopJr. Video about
Community Helpers (link listed under materials)
After the video the teacher will ask questions for
understanding:
o What are some of the community helper
careers or jobs we saw on the video?
o What are some things that those people do
for their jobs?
o How do we know that the community
helper is a .(firefighter/ police officer/ For students who learn better
doctor etc.)? visually a BrainPopJr. Video and
o Is this job only for men or women? PowerPoint will be shown

Students will be instructed to get their slates and For those students who finish early
markers out. they will be asked to draw more
Teacher will pull up a PowerPoint to test student details like surroundings.
knowledge.

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 An animated picture of a community helper will be
shown on the board. Students will have A, B, or C
options to name the job of the community helpers
The teacher will allow ample time for response
then have every student raise their slates for
checking.
The teacher will then have the student lower their
slates and chose one for a response/ pick popsicle
sticks:
o .. What answer did you come up with?
o How do you know that the person in the
picture is a . (firefighter/ police officer,
doctor etc.)
o What is one thing that they do for their
job?
The teacher will review the last slide of the power
point (the slide shows more examples of
community helpers than just the ones we
discussed)
The teacher will restate that both men and women
can do any of the community helper jobs
The teacher will read from a card with clues and
students must guess which community helper it
belongs to.
o This community helper takes care of
animals or grows food.
o This community helper helps doctors care
for of children and adults.
o This community helper makes sure
citizens are obeying the law.

To close the lesson the teacher will ask students:

o What does a community helper do?
o What are some of the careers or jobs of
community helpers?
The students will then complete a When I Grow
Up worksheet
o Students will finish this sentence When I
grow up I want to be a..
o Students will then draw themselves in that
profession.

References:
Google

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This is the PowerPoint I created for this lesson.

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