Students explore the community helpers who keep a town running — firefighters, doctors, teachers, farmers, and more — discovering the important job each one does and how they help everybody.
Students will be able to…
When there’s a fire, or you’re sick, or you need to learn — who helps? Who are the special people that keep our community going?
Project this and tap each community helper. Have students learn what each one does and how they help the whole community.
Tap any phase to open the teacher moves and student actions.
If there’s a fire, who comes to help?
Students investigate.
Explore more.
Think it through.
Students take action.
Aligned to the C3 Framework for Social Studies and Common Core literacy in social studies.
Describe how communities work to accomplish common tasks and establish responsibilities.
Explain how scarcity necessitates decision making about goods and services.
Use maps and other representations to describe places in the community.
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.
Have students pick a community helper, act out their job, and tell how they help others. A printable helper-role sheet is in the Social Studies library.
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A quick self-check with instant feedback, drawn from this lesson’s key terms.
A print-and-go review sheet with a built-in answer key. Tap “Show answer key” to reveal answers, or print the clean version for students.