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If You Were a Community Helper for a Day, Which One Would You Like To Be?-- Class Bar Graph
In this math instructional activity, students collaborate to make a class bar graph. Students choose from a list of 12 occupations they are interested in and plot the information on the graph.
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Landscape Picture Map - Lesson 8 (K-3)
Students explore the functions of landscape picture maps. In this geography skills lesson, students examine a landscape picture map and identify buildings on the map where people are employed. Students also participate in a discussion...
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Age Brings Wisdom -- Learning to Respect Elders
Students read a story about a young Japanese boy and his mother who decide to not banish the community's elders to the hills. They create origami helmets. They work together to make posters appreciating senior citizens.
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Where People Work
Students investigate where people work. In this social studies lesson, students use a Landscape Picture to locate places of work. Students discuss how each job is similar and different.
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Boy Scout Merit Badge: Landscape Architecture
In this boy scout merit badge: landscape architecture instructional activity, student research the topic with the websites listed, answer 6 detailed questions about related careers, job description, education and qualifications,...
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Henry Ford
Third graders study Henry Ford and his invention of the assembly line. They write about the differences between cars of the past and the cars they see in their community today. They take a fieldtrip to the Henry Ford Mansion.
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"Mr. Betts and Mr. Potts"
First graders listen to the book "Mr. Betts and Mr. Potts" and examine the career of being a veterinarian. They categorize animals based on whether they could be house pets or not, develop a class pet graph, and list the various...
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Images of Science
Students discover that science is part of everyday life. In this science lesson, students create a science collage, draw a scientist, and write about science in the news.
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Let's Talk About Work
Students investigate the concepts related to career choice and oral presentations. They research career options and then collect data that is shared with classmates and then discussion is used to make choices of likely occupations.
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Social Studies: The Connecticut Hill Community
Students discover the reasons for the settlement of the Connecticut Hill Community. Through an examination of the climate, occupations of the inhabitants, and demographics, they discuss reasons people choose locations for settlement. ...
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A TRIP TO THE CAFETERIA
Students take a "behind-the-scenes" look at the school cafeteria as food is being prepared. They take notes on the jobs (i.e., division of labor) that they observe in the cafeteria. They write about the division of labor in the school...
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The Value of Behavioral Variation in Homo sapiens
Students look at the behavioral characteristics of their peers from a historical perspective, and realize that, in the larger scheme of a community, these behaviors do have some value, and that a society as complex as ours does need the...
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The Joy of Community Field Day
Students engage in community related activities to recognize and thank local merchants. Merchants raise awareness regarding what resources are available in the local and neighboring area for students and their families.
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Where Do We Get the Money We Spend?
Students discuss the sources of income for people in their community. They examine why different jobs are paid different wages. They also classify productive resources in the economy.
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The Seasonal Round and The Cycle of Life
Seventh graders recognize moments of importance in people's lives and asks them to find meaning in the stages of their own and other's lives. They are taught that all cultures have rites of passage for similar stages in the cycle of life.
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Women in United States History
Students identify and explain the significance of key terms, such as: 19th Amendment, Femisnism, Flappers, Immigration and Jobs in Wisconsin. They identify and analyze viewpoints, events, social classes, and people of various years.
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Arkansas Careers - Paper Makers
Students listen to the story The Lorax. They identify natural, human and capital resources in the book. They identify the scarcity problem and brainstorm solutions. Students view a map of Arkansas which shows natural resources. They...
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Office Secretary
Pupils explore school secretaries. In this ELL vocabulary and language development lesson, students look at pictures of school secretaries performing various jobs and give oral descriptions of what they see. Pupils visit the school...
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To Go Where No Student Has Gone Before
Eighth graders participate in interactive video teleconference with employees of NASA Johnson Space Center. Students visit inside of space station module, take video tour of Russian-built Service Module by Astronaut Bill Shepherd, visit...
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Understanding and Explaining the Role of the Media in a Free and Democratic Society
Students select one from a list of possible research projects about the role of the media in a democratic society.
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Community Helpers - Alphabetical Order
A word bank contains a list of sixteen different community servants. On the worksheet, youngsters simply write them in alphabetical order. This would be an appropriate exercise to assign around Labor Day or during a unit in which your...
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Infusing Equity by Gender Into the Classroom: A Handbook of Classroom Practices
Learners match their natural proclivities to possible future careers which are nontraditional for their genders. They further examine gender stereotypes through other activities.
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In Your Own Backyard
Students identify entrepreneurial opportunities that exist in their own community. From this information they determine possible market niches and identify potential businesses that could be started to meet the demands of these niches...
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The Gifts of Trees
Students examine the various things trees give us. They read the book, "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein, cook a food using a tree fruit, create notepads using unused paper, construct a picture frame with twigs, and write a poem.