Introduction
This curriculum web will allow kindergarten students to explore the world around them, focusing on community helpers.  They will understand that people have different jobs and they have tools that they use for their job.

Curriculum Standard(s)
SSKE1 The student will describe the work that people do (police officer, fire fighter, soldier, mail carrier, baker, farmer, doctor, and teacher).
SSKE2 The student will explain that people earn income by exchanging their human resources (physical or mental work) for wages or salaries.
SSKE3 The student will explain how money is used to purchase goods and services.
a. Distinguish goods from services.
b. Identify various forms of U.S. money (coins, currency).
SSKE4 The student will explain that people must make choices because they cannot have everything they want.

Aim/Purpose Statement
This curriculum web is to help kindergarteners become familiar with many different careers and the tools they use, and the goods or services they offer.

General Educational Goals
This curriulum web was developed by a kindergarten teacher to integrate community throughout the curriculum unit.  It will allow the students to understand how a community works while incorporating counting and writing to the Social Studies curriculum. This unit is introduced as a whole group, however most of the activities can be suited to small group activities. This unit should take about 2-3 weeks to complete.

Learning Objectives

• The student will be able to name four or more careers that make up our community
• The student will be able to describe tools that a person needs for their job.
• The student will be able to deturmine the difference between goods and services.
• The student will be introduced to money as well as needs and wants.

Learner Description
The learners that this webquest was designed for is

• Kindergartener
• Age 5-6
• Living in a community
• Beginning to understand the concept of money.
• Beginning to write using words from the word wall as well as words they can sound out.
• Understanding how to click and double click on a link on the computer.
• Able to count to 10 with 1 to 1 correspondence.
• Able to verbally participate in class discussions.

Subject Matter Description
The Work People Do curriculum web will focus on the Social Studies curriculum of community and economic understanding the topics include:

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  Describe different Jobs
  The students and teacher together begin with making a word web about what are jobs, and how many can you name? A writing wheel, chart paper or white board can be used for this.
  The students will see a group of pictures. The people will have the uniforms of their job. Discuss as a group what each person would do.
  Have a dress up area where each child can explore "being" a community helper.
  The students will individually be at a computer to click on each picture.  As they click on the picture it will hyperlink to a video of each person as they tell about their job.
  Use magazines and pictures to find people dressed as their career. Make a collage of different community helpers.
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  Tools needed for a job.
  The students will go to another page that has pictures of the tools that each person uses in their job. They will match the tools with the profession.
  Have the students pretend they are a community helper and write "I am a______" (using vocabulary copied from a card of their choice) then draw the tools they would need on their job.
  
  Money earned from jobs
  To culminate the activity, have a "Community Helper Dress Up Day.  Each child will come to school dressed as a profession.  They will bring the tools that they need for that profession.  While they are dressed up, have another child role play being their customer.  What would your customer need to bring to you or what can we get from you?  Such as you would take a cat to a veterinarian not a mechanic. Have additional items such as aprons, or hats on hand so if a child does not come dressed up they can still participate.
  Pay each child with school money for their work that day. They can use their money to go to treasure box and buy something.
  
  Goods or Services
  Be construction workers and roll a dice to "build" a tower with snap cubes or be a dentist and roll the dice and place that many marshmallows on the teeth game. Vary the dice to be dots or numerals depending on the student level.
• Go to the goods or services page. Does each person provide a service or make goods?
  Use playdoh to manufacture goods.
  Have the students pretend they are a community helper and write "I am a______" (using vocabulary copied from a card of their choice) then draw the tools they would need on their job.
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  Needs
  Discuss that there are certain things that students need: food, shelter, clothes and someone to take care of you. The other things are wants.
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  Wants
  Discuss you can't have everything you want and have to make choices. This will be covered more in depth with our unit on money in the spring.
  Money spent on goods or services
  Create a store where each child can choose to buy goods and services. This activity is best done in the spring with the money unit.

Expected Prerequisites

The students will need to begin to understand the community they live in. They need to understand how to discuss ideas with the class and know how to use a mouse on a computer.

Summary

I would like to teach kindergarteners about the careers that make up the community they live in.

Rationale
Young children ages 5-6 are discovering the world around them.  They need to learn that it takes many people to make a productive society.  The basics of economic understanding and teamwork are  begun by understanding the community you live in.  As the students explore different jobs, they learn that no one can do everything and that it is only through working together that a community works.

Instructional Plan

Prior to beginning this unit your students should understand the classroom protocol for whole group discussions as well as how to work with a small group. The introduction to this unit should be a whole group activity where you can discuss and make a word web about all of the types of jobs in your community.

The investigations in this module include:

1. What types of jobs are in our community.
2. What tools do they use.
3. Do they provide goods or services.
4. An introduction of money, needs and wants, and choices.

The first of these activities can be whole group, where they brainstorm. The module continues to include independent and small group activities that explore different careers.

The culminating activity is to dress as a career with any tools that you might need for that job. The student should express who they are dressed as, what tools they need, and do they provide a service or make goods.

Assessment Plan

Throughout the module, the students should be assessed through teacher observation and completing the small group tasks.

Students that are observed having diffiulty with the small groups, can be worked with one on one to help them understand their community better. Teacher observations and conversations will deturmine if the students are making successful gains on the standard.

Assessment Rubric

The learners will be evaluated orally. Have each child individually tell you the following. The first two are based on the Cobb County Kindergarten report card rubric.

Evaluation Rubric

The teacher will observe the students to evaluate the student's use of the curriculum web. This will help deturmine if the website was helpful to teach the objectives.

Teaching Plan

This curriculum web can be used with whole group, small groups or in a computer lab by kindergarten students. It is best introduced as a whole group to ensure the students know how the site works without having to read the text. The links to the pages "goods and services"what's my job"and "tools" can be used as a small group with computers in the classroom or in the computer lab. However, each child will need to have headphones to hear the video without interrupting the rest of the classroom.

When you begin the lesson, I would use it on a smartboard screen connected to my computer and the internet. I am still unsure how the rollover buttons will work on a smartboard screen. If it does not work properly, it would still work as a photo collection to discuss what each person does and make paper vocabulary cards that reflect each person's job.

Each student will need their own computer to finish the remainder of the tasks. Please monitor the students to see if they can click and mouse over the buttons to successfully complete the pages.

The concluding activity is to dress up as a community helper as described above.

Video

Here is a link to a video that describes how to use my curriculum web.