School Jobs Kindergarten Unit: 2 Lesson: 2 Suggested Duration: 2 days Lesson Synopsis: Students will learn about the people in the school community, identify their jobs, job descriptions, and locations of those jobs within the school. They will also learn how these jobs contribute to meeting the needs of the school community. TEKS: K.7 Economics. The student understands the importance of jobs. K.7A Identify jobs in the home, school, and community K.7B Explain why people have jobs K.9 Government. The student understands the role of authority figures. The student is expected to: K.9A Identify authority figures in the home, school, and community; and K.13 Science, technology and society. The student understands ways technology is used in the home and school. The student is expected to: K.13A Identify examples of technology used in the home and school; and K.13B Describe how technology helps accomplish specific tasks. Process TEKS: K.16 Social studies skills. The student communicates in oral and visual forms. The student is expected to: K.16A Express ideas orally based on knowledge and experiences GETTING READY FOR INSTRUCTION Performance Indicator(s): Locate school workers on a school map and describe the person s job. (K.7A) 1C, 1E; 2E; 3D; 4G; 5B Key Understandings and Guiding Questions: People s jobs contribute to the community. What jobs contribute to the community? How do these jobs contribute to the community? Jobs in the school and classroom are important. Who are the people who work in your school community? Why are the jobs of school workers important? What would our lives be like if we didn t have school workers? Technology helps people accomplish their tasks. What technology helps school workers accomplish their tasks? How does technology help accomplish the tasks? Vocabulary of Instruction: job worker tour custodian principal assistant principal Materials: pictures or clip art of school workers nurse counselor secretary computer teacher music teacher PE teacher brainstorming web chart bus driver office staff cafeteria workers art teacher Resources: Teacher Resource: List of Possible School Workers Teacher Resource: School Workers 2008, TESCCC 08/07/08 page 1 of 8
Teacher Resource: School Workers Web Teacher Resource: Rubric: School Kindergarten Advance Preparation: 1. The teacher will have pictures or clip art ready that represent the various jobs in the school community. The teacher may choose to have actual pictures of the school workers so that students identify more easily who the workers are. 2. Notify school workers of school tour date and time. Background Information: N/A GETTING READY FOR INSTRUCTION SUPPLEMENTAL PLANNING DOCUMENT Instructors are encouraged to supplement, and substitute resources, materials, and activities to differentiate instruction to address the needs of learners. The Exemplar Lessons are one approach to teaching and reaching the Performance Indicators and Specificity in the Instructional Focus Document for this unit. A Microsoft Word template for this planning document is located at www.cscope.us/sup_plan_temp.doc. If a supplement is created electronically, users are encouraged to upload the document to their Lesson Plans as a Lesson Plan Resource in your district Curriculum Developer site for future reference. INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES Instructional Procedures ENGAGE Day 1 The teacher will ask students to describe the people who help them each day at school. Allow time for students to turn and talk and encourage students to work together to name the job that each of the people do that they are discussing. As students identify a person who works at the school, begin a web on chart paper with simple illustrations, labels or a description. EXPLORE Show students pictures or clip art of additional people not mentioned in the engagement activity who also work at the school. Encourage students to discuss who the pictures might represent and describe what their job responsibilities are. Ask the students what types of technologies help these people do their job. Once students have had the opportunity to explore and discuss, add the remaining workers to the web that was started in the engagement activity. The teacher will take the class on a tour of the school to identify the various workers that help the students each day. Briefly stop and meet with each person and discuss where each person works within the school community to build background knowledge for the following lessons. Have the students ask what types of technologies help these people accomplish their tasks. Notes for Teacher NOTE: 1 Day = 30inutes Suggested time: 1/3 Day Teacher may discuss with the class or in groups. Clip art may be used as a substitute for the simple drawings on the web. Teacher Resource: School Workers Suggested time: 2/3 Day School Workers: librarian, principal, custodian, classroom teacher, cafeteria worker, secretary, nurse, counselor, bus driver, music teacher, art teacher, physical education teacher, computer teacher, etc. Possible technologies: computers, TV/DVD, intercom system, projection systems, etc. Teacher Resource: List of Possible School Workers Notify the people that you plan to stop and talk with on the tour ahead of time so that they are prepared to give a brief description of their job and where the location of the job mainly takes place. The teacher should use direction and location vocabulary during the tour to build background knowledge for following lesson as well. 2008, TESCCC 08/07/08 page 2 of 8
Kindergarten EXPLAIN Day 2 Review tour from yesterday. Review list of school workers. Ask students to turn and talk to discuss where each worker in the school community works within the school. Add pictures and descriptions to the web of school workers. ELABORATE The teacher will facilitate a discussion about what the school community would be like without the people who work at the various jobs. Example: What would our school be like if there were no custodians? EVALUATE Locate school workers on a school map and describe the person s job. After studying school jobs, descriptions, responsibilities, and how these jobs meet needs in the school community, the students will identify three pictures (digital photos or clip art) of school workers, where they work in the school, their job responsibilities, and how they help meet the needs of the school. Suggested time: 1/3 Day If possible, take digital photos of each school worker as you meet them on the tour. These pictures may be used for future lessons and may be added to the Teacher Resource: School Workers Web. Suggested time: 1/6 Day Suggested time: 1/2 Day If students are able, have the students write the description of the school worker. The teacher may choose to pull small groups of students to work in a guided writing group. The teacher may decide to use pictures. Teacher Resource: Rubric: School 2008, TESCCC 08/07/08 page 3 of 8
Kindergarten Rubric: School Students will locate school workers on a school map and describe the person s job. (K.7A; K.16A) 1 2 3 4 Student correctly Student correctly locates two pictures locates three of (digital photos or pictures of (digital clip art) school photos or clip art) workers, where they school workers, work in the school, where they work in their job the school, their job responsibilities, and responsibilities, and how they help meet how they help meet the needs of the the needs of the school. school. Student does not locate any school workers on a school map. Student correctly locates three pictures of (digital photos or clip art) school workers, where they work in the school, their job responsibilities, and how they help meet the needs of the school. The student shows clear understanding of these concepts by using advanced vocabulary and detailed descriptions. 2008, TESCCC 08/07/08 page 4 of 8
List of Possible School Workers Kindergarten 1. principal 2. nurse 3. cafeteria worker 4. bus driver 5. music teacher 6. art teacher 7. physical education (PE) teacher 8. counselor 9. computer teacher 10. custodians 11. assistant principal 12. secretary 13. office staff 2008, TESCCC 08/07/08 page 5 of 8
Kindergarten Clip Art for SCHOOL WORKERS Principal Art teacher Secretary Music teacher Counselor Computer teacher Nurse Librarian Custodian Bus driver Cafeteria workers 2008, TESCCC 08/07/08 page 6 of 8
Kindergarten Bibliography Website for clip art: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/ 2008, TESCCC 08/07/08 page 7 of 8
School Workers Web Kindergarten principal librarian nurse counselor School Workers music teacher cafeteria worker custodian 2008, TESCCC 08/07/08 page 8 of 8