Community Helpers Lesson Plan - PowerPoint

Assignment: Students think of 3 community helpers in their neighborhood and create a PowerPoint about how they help the community. Students use the community helpers handout to list their chosen community helpers and write information about what they do. Students collect several images of their chosen community helpers. Students combine their information and images to create an interesting and informative PowerPoint Presentation.

Download: community-helpers-powerpoint-student-handout.doc

Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.7 Introduce a topic and group related information together; include illustrations when useful to aiding comprehension. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.2.A

Download: rubric-for-slide-presentations.pdf

Slide 1 - Title Slide

Students add a title "Community Helpers". Students add three images illustrating their chosen community helpers.Students add their name.

Slide 2 - First Community Helper

Students add a title with the name of their chosen community helper. Students add one or more images of their community helper. Students add information about two or more ways this community helper helps the community.

Slide 3 - Second Community Helper

Students add a title with the name of their chosen community helper. Students add one or more images of their community helper. Students add information about two or more ways this community helper helps the community.

Slide 4 - Third Community Helper

Community Helpers - Student Handout