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🗺️ Kindergarten · Social StudiesD2.Eco.1.K-2Unit 3: Community helpers & needs

Community helpers

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🎯 Objective: Students describe jobs that help the community.

Lesson outline

  1. Helper visitors or videos.
  2. Dress-up role play.
  3. Draw a helper.
  4. Exit: one helper and their job.

Lesson 1 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

D2.Eco.1.K-2

C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards (NCSS) — typical US grade-level themes

🏁 Unit goals

  • Identify community helpers and their jobs
  • Tell needs from wants

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

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More lessons in “Community helpers & needs”

  1. Community helpers
  2. Needs and wants
  3. Goods and services

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