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Jamie VanEvery

Kindergarten Unit
ED 427

Topic: Helping
Big Idea: Helping others is
essential to society

Key Understandings:
I want my students to understand that
There are people in our community that help us every single day.
When we help others, it makes them feel happy.
When we arent willing to help, we wont see the rewards that come from helping.
Things can be done faster and easier when everybody is helping.

Essential Questions:
How do you feel when others help you?
What have you done to help someone in the past?
What is one way you can help one of your classmates?
Who in our community helps us every day?
What happens when youre not willing to help others?
What is the importance of being willing to help others?

Know/Do:
Identify specific people in the community that help us on a regular basis: Police Officers,
Firemen, Doctors, Mailmen, Dentists, Teachers, ect.
Identify what behaviors are helpful and which arent in the classroom setting.
Explain why community helpers are important.
List ways to help in your community.
Explain why helping others can be beneficial to yourself.
A community is a group of people living in the same place or having something in
common.
A helper is someone who makes it easier for someone else to do something.
Jamie VanEvery
Kindergarten Unit
ED 427

Assessment Plan:
1. Pre-Assessment:
Give the students pictures of things that arent helpful and are helpful and have them
sort them based on what they think are helpful.

2. Formative Assessment
After learning about each of the community helpers, have the children draw a picture
of what they do.
Have the children draw a picture of how they can help someone after talking about all
the ways we can help.
Students will create book about one of our community helpers and describe what they
do to help the community and how they can help make their community a better place.
Students will write a thank you note to members of the community that help them.

3. Summative Assessment
Give the students pictures of things that arent helpful and are helpful and have them
sort them based on what they think are helpful.

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