Community Helpers

Looking for a fun interactive teaching idea for Community Helpers? Well look no further as Career Exploration and Community Workers Sorting Puzzles will serve as an exciting lesson plan for elementary school classrooms. This is a great resource to incorporate into your unit as a center rotation, review game exercise, small group work, morning work, remediation, intervention or rti. It can also be used as a quiz, drill, test, or assessment tool to help determine student mastery of the learning target. Whether a student is homeschooled or given this as a homework assignment, kids will also love working on these at home to improve their skills.

This Community Workers puzzle set includes 24 colorful jigsaw puzzles, answer key, and an optional station instruction page with an example. These come as pdf printable sheets that can be printed on card stock and laminated for long-term use. As a suggestion, store them in a sealable gallon storage bag and place them in a tub or bin for students to use throughout the year for enrichment when they finish early. Another idea, for a project, is students can glue the completed puzzles into a notebook or journal as a reference sheet. They can also be glued on a poster for displaying on a bulletin board or as a wall anchor chart.

This is a great resource for introducing students to service workers in the community and the jobs they perform. By matching the puzzle pieces of the job title, the job description, and the picture of the worker, students can begin thinking about and exploring future career options.

I hope you download and enjoy this engaging hands-on community helpers activity with your students! So set those worksheets aside and give our puzzles a try!