Essential Workers

Introduction

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Hi students! My name is Alicia Russell. Did you know that som community workers are essential workers who are important every day? Actually, they keep you alive and safe. Do you want to be an essential worker? Continue on my website to learn more........Click on Task after listening to the podcast http://vocaroo.com/delete/s1z4Bsu9InK2/05faae47abb2630e

Task

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Your tasks for this lesson are the following:

Learn about essential workers by completing the Community Helpers Quiz
Learn about common essential workers such as doctors, nurses, fire fighters, soldiers and JPS workers from the sources listed
Take the short quiz to test your knowledge
And to have fun while doing it!

Process

Hello students!! Ms. Russell here again and today we are going to learn about community helpers that are essential workers. Before you complete the activities check out Evaluation to see how you will be graded...

STEP ONE:

Click this link to play the community helpers game: https://www.education.com/game/community-helpers-quiz/ Goal of this game: From all the community workers make a flow chart of community workers that are essential workers and list four essential workers.
Make sure you take notes on essential workers for a quiz later
Once you have completed the Community Helpers game we can move on to our next step...

STEP TWO:

Now that you are clued in on community helpers that are essential workers I want you to learn more about the roles of three essential workers
We will focus on fire fighters, police officers and doctors
Use these links to do the following:

http://policylibrary.columbia.edu/guidelines-establishing-essentialnone…

https://www.raz-kids.com/main/BookDetail/id/637

http://www.themominitiative.com/2016/08/09/teach-kids-respect-police-of…

http://oureverydaylife.com/explain-policemans-job-kindergarten-child-87…

http://www.medschools.ac.uk/SiteCollectionDocuments/The-role-of-the-doc…

http://www.cambsfire.gov.uk/careers/the-role-of-a-1376.aspx

Define Essential Workers
Name 2 essential workers
List 2ways we depend on the fire fighters
List 2 roles of the police officer and doctor

Once you have completed these two tasks we can move on to our next step. Good Work!!

.... Click on Quiz to test your knowledge.

Evaluation

Evaluation Rubric
	Excellent	Good	Fair	Poor	Points allotted
Students played the community helpers game and listed four essential workers	Students completed the community helpers game and listed three to four essential workers	Students completed the community helpers game and listed two essential workers	Students completed the community helpers game and listed one essential workers	Students did not completed the community helpers game and did not listed any essential workers	4 - excellent 3 - good 2 - fair 0 - poor
Students were able to define the term essential workers	Students were able to define essential workers and give three examples	Students were able to define essential workers and give two examples	Students were able to define essential workers and one give examples	Students were not able to define essential workers	3 - excellent 2 - good 1 - fair 0 - poor
List two ways in which we depend on the fire fighters and doctors	Student were able to list more than three ways in which we need the fire fighters and doctors	Student were able to list more two ways in which we need the fire fighters and doctors	Student were able to list one way in which we need the fire fighters and doctors	Student were not able to list any ways in which we need the fire fighters and doctors	3 - excellent 2 - good 1 - fair 0 - poor
List three roles of the police officers	Student were able to list more than three roles of the police officers	Student were able to list two roles of the police officers	Student were able to list one role of the police officers	Student were not able to list any roles of the police officers	4 - excellent 3 - good 2 - fair 0 - poor
Total / 14

Conclusion

The lesson is now concluded, you should feel a sense of accomplishment. Very good work! Here is a review of what you have learnt.

Community workers that provides essential services

Community workers provides us with goods and services. It is with these services it can be classified as essential where some community workers provide us with services that are extremely important and necessary. These services we cannot live without. They are called essential services. Providers of essential services include fire fighter, police officers, nurse, doctor, NWC workers and JPS workers. They are essential because they are on duty for twenty-four hours and if they go in strike, it will cause serious problems for the country. Some effects include outbreak of diseases, outbreak of crime and violence, lack of water and loss of electricity

The roles and ways we depend on the police officer

· keeping people safe

· enforce laws

· patrol the streets

· solve crimes

The roles and ways we depend on the fire fighter

· spend time out in the community raising awareness about one's safety

· conduct home fire safety checks

· communicate fire prevention and other safety measures

· making presentations and talks to educate the public

· visiting people's homes, schools, businesses and talking to residents about how they can plan to avoid and survive a fire if it occurs (smoke alarms, fire extinguishers etc).

The roles and ways we depend on the doctor

· listen to and assess patients’ healthcare needs with careful consideration of their personal and social circumstances

· apply their knowledge and skills to synthesise information from a variety of sources in order to reach the best available diagnosis and understanding of the patient’s problem, or to know what steps need to be taken to secure such an outcome;

· support patients in understanding their condition and what they might expect, including in those circumstances when patients present with symptoms that could have several causes;

· identify and advise on appropriate treatment options or preventive measures;

· explain and discuss the risks, benefits and uncertainties of various tests and treatments in a way that is understandable to patients;

· as much as possible support patients to make decisions about their own care.

Teacher Page

The following are the lesson objectives and references used to create this webquest:

I. LESSON OBJECTIVES

a. Cognitive Objective- The student will be able to formulate a at least two ways essential workers are necessary and where to get help if needed by the conclusion of this lesson.

b. Affective Objective- The student will be able to share their feelings about being on duty for twenty-four hours as an essential worker

c. Psychomotor Objective- The student will be able to show essential workers from the various community helpers by constructing an essential workers posters by the conclusion of this lesson.

References:

Game: Community Helpers Quiz

Retrieved from: https://www.education.com/game/community-helpers-quiz/

Retrieved on: March 30, 2107

The role of the doctor

Retrieved from: http://www.medschools.ac.uk/SiteCollectionDocuments/The-role-of- the-doctor-consensus-statement-2014.pdf

Retrieved on: March 30, 2017

Roles of the police officers

Retrieved from: http://work.chron.com/role-police-officer-8056.html

Retrieved on: March 30, 2017

The role of the fire fighter

Retrieved from: http://www.cambsfire.gov.uk/careers/the-role-of-a-1376.aspx

Retrieved on: March 30, 2017