Career Pathway Development Project

Community Helpers

Title:  Community Helpers

Submitted by: Anne Toth

  Age:  6-8 (1^st-2^nd)

  Prior Knowledge: Beginning reading

  Overview:  Identify 11 occupations.

  Objective: Career awareness

  Materials and Resources:  Computer, copy machine, pencil

  Class setting: Teacher direction, depending upon reading ability of students

  Evaluation:  Worksheet completion, understanding of community helpersâ jobs

  Vocabulary: mother, nurse, police officer, principal, doctor, teacher, counselor, father, sheriff, neighbor, firefighter

  Standards Addressed:

Reading  1 b   pictures and visual cues

Employability   B 2   identify career options

  Tasks:

          Go to     http://www.ncpc.org/10act10.htm

Run off worksheet and/or use on internet site.

Present vocabulary and spelling as needed.

(Additional games/puzzles at  http://www.ncpc.org/child.htm)