The Big Idea Activity

What kinds of work do people do?

Make a Worker Flashcard Game

  California Standard K.3 Students match simple descriptions of work that people do and the names of related jobs at the school, in the local community, and from historical accounts.

Teaching Tips

Students may cut out pictures of workers from magazines or download them from the Internet.

Additional Links

Hospital Workers
You can have children use the left and right arrows to view completely around each room of a children's hospital from admitting, to x-ray, to the treatment rooms. Hospital workers are shown at work.


Children Long Ago

  California Standard K.6.3 Understand how people lived in earlier times and how their lives would be different today (e.g., getting water from a well, growing food, making clothing, having fun, forming organizations, living by rules and laws).

Teddybear

Teaching Tips

There is a story behind nearly every toy or game. You may want to find out more about the history of certain toys and games such as the ones seen in the textbook. This site gives information about who invented the toy or game or how it came to be. Ask children to think of a toy or game that they might want to invent.

Additional Links

This timeline tells the history of when certain toys, games, and recreation first came into being from 6000 B.C. until the present.


César Chávez

  California Standard K.1.2 Learn examples of honesty, courage, determination, individual responsibility, and patriotism in American and world history from stories and folklore. California Standard K.1.3 Know beliefs and related behaviors of characters in stories from times past and understand the consequences of the characters' actions.

César Chávez

Teaching Tips

Have students tell what they think it means to be brave. Explain how César Chávez was a very brave man to stand up for what he believed.

Additional Links

Visit this Web site for additional information about who César Chávez was and what he did.