Community Helper Trivia

Ask your students what they know about community helpers. This video teaches us that community helpers are people in a community that do a job that helps others or helps the community. The video illustrates that community helpers perform specific roles. Examples given in the video include doctors, hairdressers, librarians, police officers and more. A fun trivia game is played and students find to the community helper that helps with a given problem or need.

Students learn and understand that a community functions better when the needs of its members are being met. Community helpers fill these roles. Extend the learning by discussing helpers that students know personally such as family or friends that are community helpers. Students enjoy discussing what job they want to do when they grow older as well. Ask how many want to be a community helper and why they want that kind of job.

Use this video in your social studies class and have fun learning about community helpers.