Welcome to Fort Love

 

A WebQuest Exploring Community Helpers

First Grade Social Studies

Designed by

Susan Love

This WebQuest is best viewed Internet Explorer.  

Introduction | Task | Process | Evaluation | Conclusion | Credits | Teacher Page


Introduction

We all live in a community and all communities have helpers to keep us safe and healthy. Are there community helpers in your community? You will work with the mayor of Fort Love to bring some community helpers to the new city.

 

 


The Task

You will learn about many different community helpers. You will then work with a partner to help the mayor of Fort Love decide on some important helpers to add to the new community. You will then draw a picture of five community helpers and the places that they work. You will also write a sentence about one of your helpers.


The Process

 

Work with an adult helper to visit several community helpers and the places they work.

Discuss the following questions with the adult helper.

 

1. What is the community helpers job?

2. Where does the helper work?

3. Why is the helper important to the community?

 

Work with an adult helper to take a community helper quiz.

Print out the Mayor's map of Fort Love.

Work with your partner to choose five community helpers that you feel would benefit Fort Love.

Draw a picture of each helper on the map and the place they work.

Choose one of your helpers and write a sentence telling about that helper's job. Write your sentence on the back of your map.

Click on one of the following helpers to print out a coloring sheet to color.

  1. doctor
  2. firefighter
  3. mail carrier
  4. police officer
  5. teacher
 


Evaluation

You and your partner will be graded according to the following rubric.

Beginning

1

Developing

2

Accomplished

3

Exemplary

4

Score

 

Map of Fort Love

 
Map includes pictures, but the pictures may not be easily identified.
Map includes pictures of community helpers, but not their place of work.
Map includes simple pictures of community helpers and their places of work.
Map includes elaborate pictures of community helpers and their place of work.

 

Sentence about Community Helper

 

 
Students attempt to write a sentence, but it is hard to comprehend.
Students write a simple sentence using inventive spelling.
Students write a simple sentence containing correct punctuation and inventive spelling.
Students write a sentence using some correct spelling and correct punctuation.

 

Partner Cooperation

 

 
Students did not get along at all.
Students worked together with some arguments.
Students worked together with few arguments.
Students worked very well to- gether with no arguments.


Conclusion

You have helped the mayor of Fort Love with some new community helpers. You have also learned a lot about community helpers and the places that they work. If you would like to read more about community helpers, here are a few books that you could read.

 

Credits & References

 

Thanks to the following web sights for contributing to this Webquest.

 

Amazon Books at Amazon.com

Scholastic Community Club at http://teacher.scholastic.com/commclub/index.htm

Ben's Guide to U.S. Government For Kids at http://bensguide.gpo.gov/k-2/neighborhood/index.html

Kids Next Door at http://www.hud.gov/kids/job3.html

Crafts For Kids Coloring Pages at http://www.coloring.ws/coloring.html

 

 

Last updated on August 9, 2002. Based on a template from The WebQuest Page