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Internet Search List- Jessica Curasi

1. **People, Occupations, and Community at Enchanted Learning**- __http://www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/communityhelpers.shtml__ This website provides ample activities, crafts and printable worksheets & books about communities. There are numerous games, puzzles, matching activities, coloring worksheets, job & people anagram activities that children can participate in when learning about their communities. The site also gives you an opportunity to become a member for a yearly fee where you have unlimited access to all the content of the Enchanted Learning website and additional perks when accessing the site. 2. **Community Helpers Lesson Plans**- __http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/history/comm/__ This site provides wonderful information for teachers who plan of teaching a thematic unit on community helpers. It gives teachers numerous ideas of how to create and organize their lesson plans and different activities that their students can take part in that aids in comprehension of the theme. These individual lesson ideas give specific details as to what the students objectives will be when teaching that specific lesson as well as any quality literature books and activities that support the objectives. 3. **Learning to Give, Curriculum Lesson of the League**- __http://learningtogive.org/lessons/unit126/lesson3.html__ This site is packed full of different ideas that supports lessons in teaching about ’our community’. This site is a four day unit plan about citizenship and community contribution with daily activities and quality children’s literature books. It outlines the objectives, materials, instructional procedures, assessment and homework for every aspect of this lesson with detailed activities and worksheets for your students to complete. 4. **Hummingbird Educational Resources**- __ http://www.hummingbirded.com/community-helpers.html __ This website gives numerous ideas that teachers can integrate into their lesson plans on community helpers. Teachers and parents are able to submit examples of activities that have proven to be successful with children. There is everything from songs and rhymes to role playing activities and arts and crafts that teachers can work into their lesson plans and have students take part in. 5. **The Teachers Corner**- __http://www.theteacherscorner.net/lesson-plans/socialstudies/helpers.htm__ This website includes descriptive lesson plans that teachers can use with their students. Each of the lesson plans includes a detailed objective, an anticipatory set, preparation and materials necessary, an evaluation, conclusion and activity that support the lesson. There is also a section titles ‘books to use for the unit’ where it groups quality children’s literature books based on occupations you can find in the community. There are also additional links on the page that provide teachers additional resources and instructional plans for community based lessons. 6. **Community Helpers video**- __http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fSrq4k6UXk&feature=PlayList&p=D5150304B1728550&index=0__ This video provides descriptive pictures of different community helpers in their occupations. It explains in terms children would comprehend, exactly what people in each profession do and why their presence is important to the community.

Children's Literature Books- Jessica Curasi

1.__Do Skyscrapers Really Touch the Sky?__ By: Time Life Books This book answers twenty-two questions about how a city runs including "How does an elevator work?" "What's under the street?" and "Why do traffic lights change color?" 2. __Jobs People Do__ By: Christopher Maynard Introduces children to community helpers as well as the tools they use and places where they work. The pictures depict real life children dressed in uniforms or typical dress for the helper. 3. __Firefighters A to Z__ By: Chris L. Demarest This is a wonderful rhyming alphabet book that teaches young children vocabulary and concepts of fire fighting. The rhymes are meaningful: "G is for Go as we race at full speed, H is for Hoses and Hydrants we need." Rich yellows and orange reds play in illustrations to portray realistic subjects. 4. __I want to be a Police Officer__ By: Daniel Liebman Starting with the cover photo of a smiling female law enforcer, the book stresses the friendliness of police officers and how they "enjoy helping people." The remainder of the book presents assorted, sometimes disjointed facts, e.g., police wear heavy clothes on cold days and keep records. 5. __Community Helpers A to Z__ By: Bobbie Kalman and Nikki Walker In this book, children are introduced to people of different nationalities who make our communities cleaner, safer and more pleasant. This alphabet book includes such helpers such as police officers, firefighters, sanitation workers and veterinarians. 6. __Delivering your Mail; A Book About Mail Carriers__ By: Anne Owen Introduces children to who mail carriers are and describes some of the things that they do to make sure people in the community get their mail.


 * Internet Search List- Samantha Jablonski**

Ben’s Guide to U.S. Government for Kids __ http://bensguide.gpo.gov/k-2/neighborhood/index.html __ This is a terrific, interactive tour of a local community. The student clicks on a place in the community (ex. School, library, and police office) and Ben Franklin gives an explanation of what people do in those places. The text is simple and easy to understand for primary grade level students. It also is fun for the students because for each place, Ben Franklin is dressed up as that occupation. Can you imagine him as a firefighter?!

Helping out in the Community __http://www.mcgruff.org/Advice/community.php__ McGruff the Crime Dog offers some helpful advice to young students about helping out in their community. Examples include baking cookies for elderly people, offering to rake leaves in your neighbor’s yard, and gathering donations for the Red Cross. Although there are many more examples out there, this is a kid-friendly list which also includes two interactive games on the website, “Community Clean-Up” and “Baking Cookies with Scruff.”

Enchanted Learning __ http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Dictionary.html __ Enchanted Learning has a great online dictionary of various “community” vocabulary words. This website allows students to practice their computer and dictionary skills. For example, if the student wants to look up the word “teacher,” the student must locate the “T” at the top of the homepage and then find the word “teacher” on the list. Once the student clicks on the word, a brief explanation (definition) is provided as well as a picture of the person/place/thing.

Spot the Sign __http://funschool.kaboose.com/globe-rider/games/game_spot_the_sign.html__ This is a fun and interactive game intended for kindergarten and first grade students. Students have to choose which traffic signs are correct on the screen and identify their names. It is a simple game yet teaches the students about letter and number recognition as well (which integrates the language arts). When doing a unit on community, it is important for students to learn what kinds of traffic signs and symbols are used in their community. This interactive game will help them learn just that.

Community Helpers Activities and Games __http://www.apples4theteacher.com/word-finds/community-helpers.html__ This is a website intended for the teacher to get ideas for lessons regarding a community. There are worksheets, lessons, and games included on this website for the teacher to consider. One great activity is the community helper word search puzzle. The students can access this interactive puzzle on the website and try to look up words which include “cobbler” (great vocabulary word), “doctor”, “judge”, and “principal.”


 * Book List - Samantha Jablonski**

__Community Helpers from A to Z__ Authors: Bobbie Kalman and Niki Walker This book is perfect for younger elementary school students (preferably kindergarten and first grade). It outlines various jobs people do in a local community and makes them realistic because the illustrations are of real people doing the jobs. The book could be used as a great resource to teach students how every person from A to Z has an important role in the community.

__Career Day__ Author: Anne Rockwell This book describes a career day in an elementary school classroom. The parents of several students come in and speak about their jobs. The best part about this book is that it is multicultural and stays clear of gender stereotypes. For example, there is an African American female judge, a Hispanic male construction worker, a female veterinarian, and an African American

__Jobs Around My Neighborhood/Oficios en mi Vecindario__ Author: Gladys Rosa-Mendoza This is a wonderful book for primary grades. Both English AND Spanish translations are included in this book so it is especially beneficial for English Language Learners and could be used as a great ESOL accommodation. The print is large, the text is simple, and the illustrations are bright. In addition, this is also a great book to incorporate new vocabulary.

__I Want To Be a… Police Officer__ Author: Dan Liebman There are no gender stereotypes in this book since the front cover is of a cheerful female police officer. The pictures are realistic and provide a good explanation of the various roles of a police officer. The book is very positive and emphasizes how police officers “enjoy helping people.” Dan Liebman, the author, has a complete series of “I Want To Be a…” which include a firefighter, nurse, and veterinarian.

__My Town__ Author: Rebecca Treays This book is narrated by a little boy named Ted who examines the life in his town. The book, which is intended for ages 4-8, introduces the basic concepts of human and social geography. Several pages also have the ability to fold out and display maps, thus increasing the students’ knowledge of map skills. The illustrations are animated, colorful, and very appealing to young children. _

**By: Amanda Stein** WEBSITES __ Website Address __ : [] __ Brief Summary __ : This website is an interactive website that shows various buildings that can be found in our local communities. The goal of this website is to teach students about the different community jobs, and who works at these jobs. The student, or teacher, simply moves the cursor over the various buildings and clicks on the one they want more information about. The different buildings that can be found on the neighborhood community map are a post office, library, fire station, hospital, police station and a school.
 * 1:** __ Name of Site __ : “Your Neighborhood”

__ Website Address __ :http://www.picadome.fcps.net/lab/currl/community/default.htm __ Brief Summary : __ This is a great website that has all sorts of information for students and teachers. There are various activities that are made just for students to help them learn all about their community. Coloring sheets, interactive computer games, and printable pages, are all found on this website to bring this concept to life. I found every link to offer tons of useful information that will help students understand just how communities are ran. This website can be used in the classroom, or just as a great resource for teachers to get materials and ideas.
 * 2 : **__ Name of Site : __ Community Workers

__ Website Address : __ http://edhelper.com/community_helpers.htm __ Brief Summary : __ This website is strictly for teachers and is one of the best websites I found. EdHelper is a website that has all sorts of unit plans with every aspect completely laid out for the teacher. This unit plan, directed around the theme of Community Helpers is filled with ideas. Inside this unit is examples of community maps, bulletin board layouts, short reading comprehensions, coloring sheets, draw and writes, review questions, puzzles, printable board games, etc. Everything you would need to do a thorough unit on community helpers, can be found in this extremely useful website.
 * 3 :** __ Name of Site : __ Community Helpers Theme Unit

__ Website Address : __ http://www.teachnology.com/teachers/lesson_ plans /history/comm/ __ Brief Summary : __ This website is strictly for teachers and is filled with assorted lesson plans that revolve around community helpers. The lesson plans are complete with outlines of lessons, activities, visual aids, and other helpful features that will help any teacher present the content of community helpers to their students. There are lessons on all sorts of communities. A few examples of these are simulated communities, cities, suburbs, countries, and communities of the past. All lesson plans are thoroughly thought out to ensure that the concept can be taught in a manor that the students can relate to and understand.
 * 4 :** __ Name of Site : __ Community Helpers Lesson Plans

__ Website Address : __ [] Community_and_Community_Helpers.htm __ Brief Summary : __ What is truly great about this website is that it gives many great ideas for interactive stuff to do between parents and their children. This is the sort of website that teachers can give parents information about, and the parent can then do stuff at home with their child regarding community and community helpers. All activities seem to be fun and enjoyable for all ages. Parents can not be involved enough with their children, especially when it comes to supporting them in their academics. This is a great website to help promote this sort of interaction, which will just better the student and their understanding of the concept, while creating a bond with their parents that will help them succeed. **1 :** __ Title __ : ABC Doctor ; Staying Healthy From A to Z __ Author __ : Liz Murphy __ Brief Summary: __ This book was written to help those students who fear going to the doctor. Understanding that going to the doctor can be quite a terrifying experience, this book seems to cover everything that a patient may encounter. The author of this picture book understands that it may be a little easier to go the doctor when you know what to expect, and the colorful pictures make going to the doctor almost seem fun! This book goes through the ABC’s of seeking a doctors treatment starting with making the “appointments” to the fact that the doctor will make you feel a “zillion” times better. This is an absolutely great book!
 * 5 : **__ Name of Site : __ Community and Community Helpers
 * BOOKS **

__ Author __ : Darlene R. Stille __ Brief Summary: __ This is the kind of book that is very inviting to young readers, that would make them want to explore the world of transportation with various police vehicles. It is a very informative book with actual pictures of police vehicles. This book is made to help students understand that a police car, is not the only form of transportation for policemen. The actual pictures illustrate the extremely informative text. This book has a glossary and an appendix to help children learn how to use and navigate through the book with ease.
 * 2 :** __ Title: __ Police Cars

__ Author: __ Laurie Keller __ Brief Summary: __ This book starts off with Dr. Flossman being extremely excited to meet his up and coming class of thirty-two. The class consists of eight incisors, four canines, eight premolars, twelve molars, and four wisdom teeth. The book is written in story form, but allows students to see exactly what takes place when they go to the dentist. This book is a very funny book, filled with exciting and very interesting facts that suck readers right into the page. Young readers will laugh, while learning all about how to better appreciate the teeth that are inside of their mouth.
 * 3 :** __ Title: __ Open Wide ; Tooth School Inside

__ Author: __ Dori Hillestad Butler __ Brief Summary: __ This book is very informative and gives tons of insight on firefighting. It goes back as far as the 19th century explaining the difference between firefighting in the past, to firefighting in present day. This book is filled with answers to many readers questions, and explains in detail the experiences of firefighting from various terminology, to actual real life experiences. This book shows very detailed illustrations of the equipment used, the truck and its components, and the actions that take place in the very powerful, brave, and heroic profession of firefighting.
 * 4 :** __ Title: __ F is for Firefighting

__ Author __ : Chris L. Demarest __ Brief Summary: __ What I love most about this book is that it is written by a volunteer firefighter. This book is all about the day in the life of a firefighter and the various jobs that they take part in everyday. This very colorful, picture filled, book explains to children all about a firefighters call to put out fires, and save peoples lives and property. The illustrations are magnificent, vivid, and bright. This book does a great job of illustrating the courageous job of firefighters and their everyday lives.
 * 5 :** __ Title __ : Firefighters A to Z

Internet Search List- Kadee Burger []  Students can play around on the site and build their own communities with different settings and items they can include depending on the setting. [] This is a great video made by students at the end of a community unit. They drew pictures and narrated the movie. This would be a great idea for a final project of a unit. [] This website features a map of a community with buildings that kids can click on in order to see who works there and what they do for our community. [] This website has a number of ideas for activities to use with students learning about community helpers. [] Students can use this website to practice matching up job descriptions to pictures of different community members.  Book List
 * Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood **
 * Teacher Tube **
 * Bens Guide to the Government: Your Neighborhood **
 * Communities Theme Activities and Crafts **
 * What’s My Job? **

__ Community Helpers from A to Z __  By <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">[|Bobbie D. Kalman] //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">, //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">[|Niki Walker] //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">, //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">[|Niki Walker] <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-style: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">This book includes colorful pictures showing different jobs in our community. They touch on careers such as police officers, fire fighters, veterinarians and sanitation workers. It is an alphabet book so there is a job or tool listed for each letter. // __ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Corduroy Helps Out  __ //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">By //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">[|Don Freeman] //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">, //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">[|Lisa McCue] //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-style: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;"> (Illustrator) // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-style: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">This book follows the character Corduroy as he learns about different community members and how everyone can do their part to help the community. The book talks about ideas of recycling and collecting food for local food banks. // [|__A Day in the Life of a Garbage Collector__] //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">By //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">[|Nate LeBoutillier] <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-style: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-style: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">This book is one of a series called A Day in the Life that follows different community members through a day on the job. Other titles include, A Day in the Life of a Police Officer, A Day in the Life of a Fire Fighter, or Veterinarian. // __<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">You're a Community Helper   __ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">By <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">[|Karen Bryant-Mole] <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">This book pictures children dressed up like different community members and includes a description of each job that is shown. __<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Policeman Lou and Policewoman Sue __ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">by Lisa Desimini Two police officers have a quiet day keeping the streets of their town safe by rescuing a lost dog, writing tickets, and helping people to cross the street, but when a theft occurs, they jump into action. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">

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