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Lessons

  • Community Club - Through colorful, easy-to-read stories, students have the opportunity to meet a series of community workers. The photo-stories focus on real people, including a veterinarian, a police officer, a mayor, a pizza maker, a librarian, a pediatrician, and a firefighter who give personal accounts of their jobs.

Projects

  • Assembly Lines - In this activity students form an assembly line to make a picture. This activity will help students understand the assembly line production process.
  • Career Collage - Students will gather pictures from magazines that represent a variety of careers that they are interested in.
  • Follow the Plan - Children will use instructions on cards to draw a house with a specific number of features.
  • Tools of the Trade - Children create and then play a game similar to "Memory," which encourages them to recall what they have learned about different occupations and the related tools.
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