1-1.5 Links To Information For Teachers
Vocabulary
- community life
- education
- jobs
- issues of transportation
- communication
- relationships between family, school, and community
- school arrangement= K – 12
- elementary, middle, high school
- typical jobs in the community
- teachers, doctors, lawyers, police officers
- unique jobs in the community
- PTA/PTO
- Community Recreation Department
- churches
- how is the community protected?
- communication systems
- radio
- television/TV
- satellites
- cell phones
- email
- internet
- typical transportation
- unique transportation
- taxi (explain the use)
- city bus (explain the use)
Suggestions
- Discuss with the students the different types of transportation in our community. Make sure that they understand other types of transportation that might be in a large city(taxi and buses).
- Discuss with the students the typical jobs that are usually found in most communities.
- Talk to the students about the jobs in their community that are unique to this community.
- Make a bulletin board of their pictures of unique and typical jobs of their community.
- Refer to pictures in1-1.2 and go to link at the bottom of the page for pictures of communication and transportation.
- Talk to the children about the K- 12 school set-up in the United States.
- First Grade Dictionary For Vocabulary
Streamline SC
- City, Suburbs, and rural communities
- Let's Explore: In the City
- At Work Moving The Mail: Postal Employees
- how Communities Are Alike and Different
Books
- Fox On The Job ByJames Marshall
- Pig Pig Gets A Job By David McPhail
