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Topic:
Community
Health Services
Grade
Level: Third
District
Health Standard: Name and identify
purposes of community health services
Lesson
Summary: Students learn about the services provided by various
community health workers, relating this need to a hypothetical broken
arm. Their investigation takes them to the phone book, websites, and
their own inquisitiveness.
Textbook
Connections:
McGraw
Hill Health Third Grade, Chapter
10 , Lesson 1, Community Health Care
(pages 248-251)
McGraw-Hill
Web-Linked Activities
Materials:
City
telephone book, notebook paper, pencils
Technology:
Computer with Internet
Connection,
Instructional
Input:
Purpose: If you have a
question concerning health treatment or services, you need to know whom to
call for help and answers.
Focus: If you fell
and broke your arm, where could your parents take you for treatment?
Have students
brainstorm different places and people who would help them.
Write the responses on a piece of poster paper to use at the centers. Centers
(or Activities)
Emergency Numbers (Modified
from McGraw Hill, p. 251--Use the yellow pages of the phone
book. Post cue words for students to find emergency information:
Health, Hospitals, Medical Services, Physicians. Each
student is to compile an Emergency Contact List, including phone
numbers.
List of contacts to
Include:
Story Page for Community Agency sites that allows students to become
aware of the services they provide.
Planning
for an Interview--Have students select a community service or health
care worker they might like to interview. In the upper 1/4 of a
piece of paper, have them draw a picture of that person and label their
occupation. On the bottom half of the page, have students make a
list of questions they might ask this person about their job. As a
follow
up activity students could actually interview a community service or health
care worker.
Computer Center--WebQuest: Community Health Agencies
Websites:
FEMA
for Kids website
http://www.fema.gov/kids/
Food
and Drug Administration Kids’ Homepage
http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/kids/default.htm
National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/links.htm
Safe Eyes Quiz
http://www.optima-hyper.com/eyetests/kidsquiz/KIDSAFE.htm
U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency Region 7 Kids Page
http://www.epa.gov/region07/kids/welcome.htm
Authors
: Anita
Duncan, Susie Kaufman, Michelle Wilkes, Steve Thornton
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