Work People Do a Webquest

Introduction
What do different people do? Your job is to find out what other people do for their job. Who helps us in our community?
Why do people have jobs?
What is a service and what are goods?

Video

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

The Task
When you have completed this you will be able to:

Describe different jobs by looking at where they work and the uniform they wear.
Understand that some people make things (goods) while other people help you (services).
Decide which jobs are necessary to our community, and what they do.
Understand that people have jobs to earn money to buy the things they need or want.
Be able to choose one job, come to school dressed like the job they are choosing and be able to explain what they do.

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.

The Process
The students and teacher together will begin with making a word web about what are jobs, and how many can you name. A writing wheel can be used for this.

The student will see a group of pictures. The people will have the uniforms of their job. We will discuss as a group what each person would do.

You can also have a dress up area where each child can explore "being" a community helper.

The student will individually be at a computer to click on each picture. As you click on the picture it will hyperlink to a video of each person as they tell about their job. (This will be added later).

Use magazines and pictures to find people dressed as their career. Make a collage of different community helpers.

The student 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. (This will be added later)

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.

The student will be able to sort the jobs as goods or services. Have the students write a new sight word and "mail" it to a friend.

Be a construction worker 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.

Use playdoh to manufacture goods.

To culminate the activity, we will 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 you are dressed up we will role play being your customer. What would we need to bring you or what can we get from you? Such as you would take a cat to a veterinarian not a mechanic.

Pay each child with school money for their work that day. They can use their money to go to treasure box and buy something.

Evaluation
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.

	Beginning 1	Developing 2	Accomplished 3	Exemplary 4	Score
Describe different jobs by looking at where they work and the uniform they wear.	The student can identify less than 4 professions	The student can identify 4-5 professions.	The student can identify 6-7 professions.	The student can identify 8 or more professions.
Understand that some people make things (goods) while other people help you (services).	Identify less than 2 goods or services	Identify 2-3 goods or services	Identify 4-5 goods or services.	Identify 6 or more goods or services
Be able to choose one job, come to school dressed like the job they are choosing and be able to explain what they do.	The student did not choose to participate in the activity.	.	The child dressed up but could only minimally tell what they do.	The child dressed up with tools of the trade and could tell fluently what they do.
Identify various types of money.	Does not correctly identify any coins.	Identifies one type of coins	Identifies 2-3 coins	Identifies all 4 types of coins

Conclusion
The student will be able to better understand the reason we celebrate Labor Day and know more about the community they live in.

Credits & References
Below are some pictures that can be used in the lesson.
What's my job? http://www.hud.gov/kids/whatsjob.html
What is my job? The tools are listed and you have to guess the profession. (Words not pictures) http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/ForChildren/Whats-my-job-170525.html
Kids.gov website fun jobs http://www.kids.gov/k_5/k_5_careers.shtml
http://teacher.scholastic.com/commclub/index.htm

http://www.usmint.gov/kids/games/coinMemoryGame/

http://www.usmint.gov/kids/games/plinkysCreateACard/

http://www.stlouisfed.org/education_resources/assets/lesson_plans/piggy_bank_primer/StudentSavingBudgeting.pdf

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