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Activity Overview
Young children often love putting themselves in the shoes of grown-ups and heroes. They take cues from us each day, and model their experience around our actions. Though their “job” as preschoolers is essentially to play, it’s fun to think of what they might like to do when they are adults. In this activity, students will explore different careers and find answers to the question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” They will learn details about some professions and how they play an important role in our community and then create their own props for imaginative play of the jobs they’d like to explore.
What You Need
Clothesline Clues to Jobs People Do by Katherine Heling and Deborah Hembrook on Epic
Crafting materials of your choice - felt, fabric, paper towel rolls, tissue boxes, cardboard, air dry clay, paint, duct tape, glue
Steps
Read Clothesline Clues to Jobs People Do by Katherine Heling and Deborah Hembrook on Epic. Pause and discuss each job to set up the activity for the student.
After reading the book, discuss with the student what job they want to know more about. It can be a job from the book or one of their own ideas.
With the help of an adult, type some key words into Epic or a child-safe web search about the jobs your student wants to know more about. Pick one result to read with the student. After reading, converse about how people doing this job impact the community, what their responsibilities are, what they wear, and if there is anyone in their community they might know doing this job.
Pick one element of the student’s interest to represent and use craft materials to make a dramatic play element, such as a prop or piece of clothing. For example, if the student chooses a firefighter and wants to represent the helmet, tool or uniform, use paper, air dry clay, and cardboard to create it. Hold onto these props, as they will be used later in other activities!
Guiding Questions
What kinds of jobs do people do?
What job do you want to explore more?
How can we represent this job through artmaking? Can we make part of their uniform, or their tools?
How are we going to make it?
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