Theme: Community Helpers

Topic: Recycling/Community Helpers Book

Grade Level: 2nd grade

Objectives:
1. The students will be able to learn the concept of recycling.
2. The students will be able to explain the importance of
community helpers.
3. The students will be able to draw and label the correct
community helper and decide on who they want to be when they
grow up.

Standards:
 Language Arts
 1.A.2.6 Read aloud with fluency and accuracy, and
with appropriate intonation and expression.
 4.A.2.6 Speak clearly and at an appropriate pace
for the type of communication (e.g., informal
discussion, report to class).
 Art
 1.C.2.2 Use symbols and imagination to create art.
 1.E.2.2 Interpret meaning behind own art work.
 1.C.2.1 Make illustrations to communicate ideas.
Key vocabulary:
1. recycle 5. volunteer
2. draw 6. aluminum
3. label
4. community

Materials:
-Pencil -Markers
-Paper -Glue
-Construction Paper
-Crayons - boxes

Procedures/Teaching Strategies:
1. Introduction:
a. Teacher asks the following questions:
i. What other community helpers are there?
ii. Can we also be helpers of the community?
 iii. What can we do to help the community?
b. Teacher does a trash picking activity also relating to
recycling.
c. Teacher and student discuss the importance of keeping the
community clean.
d. Teacher gives community helper books.
e. Teacher and student go over the answers together.
2. Exploration
a. Teacher asks the following questions:
i. Do you think community helpers are important?
b. Students brainstorm ideas to share them with the class.
Teacher writes down students’ ideas on the chalkboard.
c. Teacher and students go over the ideas.
3. Generalization/Closure
a. Teacher explains that volunteering to help the community
will make the world a better and cleaner place to live in.
b. Teacher breaks students into groups of three and tells
them to choose a speaker, book leader, and a materials
person for the group.
c. The speaker goes up to the front of the class and presents
what they want to be when they grow up.
d. The materials person collects the materials and the book
leader collects the books and turns them in to the teacher.

Anticipatory Set:
 Regular classroom (art class/language arts class)

Assessment Evaluation:
1. Oral Questions
2. Feedback
3. Observing students
4. Presentation Rubric

Reflection:
MODIFICATIONS: The student with a learning disability will be
given a normal sized book, 8X 11 papers with a word bank for each
possible community helper.