2+.Internet+Search

1. [] “Maya & Miguel” Activity This website explains about an activity that uses arts and crafts to help students learn about community helpers. The website explains that students can use stick puppets to match community helpers with their jobs. The site recommends watching a PBS show that goes along with the activity but, I would not do this with my class because it is about matchmakers. By doing this activity, it would give the class a chance to incorporate art into the class. At the end of the activity, the class can discuss the job and the importance of community helpers. I think this would be a great activity to do with first graders.
 * Katie's Internet Sites:**

2. [] “Preschool Rhymes for Community Helpers” Even thought this website is a preschool teachers’ web page, I think showing the class rhymes would be a good way for them to remember which helper does what. This website provides rhyming poems that describe community helpers. The poems are also interactive, they ask students to hold up fingers and move around. The website has poems for neighborhood helpers, firefighters and policemen.

3. [] “What My Job?” This is a fun website students can go to that will help them match jobs to helpers. This website is colorful and asks students questions about all of the helpers in our community. When the children click the right picture, a smiley face will pop up with sound. I think matching the picture of the helper with the words is a great way for students to connect the information. This would also be a good form of informal assessment.

**Brooke's Internet Sites:** **1**.**Kids Next Door: Where kids can learn more about being good citizens** []  One of the website I found is called ‘Kids Next Door: Where kids can learn more about being good citizens’. This is a great website that allows kids to learn about people, places, and things. When you click on the People link, it brings you to two more links; What’s My Job? And Help The Homeless. When one clicks on What’s My Job you are brought to a variety questions describing jobs and you have to pick the picture that corresponds with that description. When you click Help The Homeless there are a selection of questions discussing ways for kids to help the homeless. When you click on Places you can travel to the Library, the Park, and to City Hall and go on animated tours through those areas. When you click on Things you can go to this great website that is a scavenger hunt through your city. This scavenger hunt introduces students to the town they live in and gives them information on people they never knew were part of their city. There are two more links in this section that introduce the students to the community they live in.  I think this is a great website that kids can explore to learn so much about the area they live in. Growing up I was never aware of the aspects of my community; Mayor, Chamber of Commerce, our Congressmen or even what our state bird was. This gives kids all that information and more!

2. ** BrainPop Jr.: Social Studies Communities **

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 BrainPop Jr. is an amazing website for kids in every department out there. This particular section is based on Communities and its aspects. There are six main links; Community Helpers, Homes, Kindergarten, Rural, Suburban, and Urban, School, and Transportation. When you click on each link it brings you to five more links and a description of that link. Community Helpers shows you a whole movie about the people that make the community run. However the videos on BrainPop you must subscribe to but you can try the free trial. The Homes link talks about the different types of homes in a community. You learn how the post office system works and what homes are made of. Rural, Suburban, and Urban talks about the different types of areas one could live in and what is in those different types of areas. The Schools link talks about different types of schools that you could attend. It also teaches about the people from your community that work in schools to make them run. This is very important for kids to learn about because it teaches them to respect their elders that they see every day. The Transportation link is a free link and it’s a great one! It talks about all sorts of transportation throughout a city and the world. There are activities that can be done, jokes about transportation to get kids interested, word walks, and stories.  This is a great website not only for kids but for teachers as well. Each page comes with lesson ideas and the transportation link comes with activities and print out that can be used when teaching this lesson.

3. Primary Games: Social Studies []

 This website has links to different topics in social studies. The Fire Safety link brings you to a selection of videos discussing fire safety in schools, around the house, and other places throughout the community. There are very cool websites showing you how to create a fire extinguisher out of items that can be found in your kitchen. There are also tones of games that can be played that incorporate fire safety games. This is a great resource for young children because fire safety is a very important part of the community, along with the job of a firefighter.

 Along with this link there are many more links discussing fire safety. They do however need Adobe Flash Drive downloaded on the computers so this website can only be used at certain places. These games are exciting and interactive games that keep kids attention and gets them interested in fire safety. No matter what fire safety is a very important aspect of the community and without it we would be living in danger.

=Jessica's Internet Sites:=

[|www.learningtogive.org/lessons]

 * ====This website had a sample unit lesson plans. I specifically liked how you could search by grade, subject, and topic. Community and community helpers were the two lessons I was most interested in. This would be a great tool for pulling information and ideas from.====

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 * ====This website had hands on activities to do with students, such as community hands. These could be incorporated into the lesson about helping people in the community and being a caring member of the community.====

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 * ====This website has interactive games and activities for students. The games could be incorporated into a lesson as a center and the activities could be used in their portfolio of work.====