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Elizabeth Dunbar

** 1. ****// Community Club: Police Officer //** - http://teacher.scholastic.com/commclub/officer/index.htm - This website would be useful to students in the primary grades. This interactive site allows students to read through slides with information about the important role a police officer plays in our community. The site has detailed pictures to go along with each piece of information and even has a button where students can click to hear the information read to them out loud. Students are even given to opportunity to create their own personalized police badge with their name on it. This site also has useful tools for teachers such as lesson plans, standards, and recommended books.

** 2. ****// The Activity Idea Place //** - // http://www.123child.com/UBB/showthread.php?t=6341 // - This website provides numerous ideas for lesson plans for teachers to implement during a theme unit on police officers and the police station. Lesson plan topics include key concepts to focus on (safety, the role of a police officer, etc.), stranger danger, making police badges, or creating an “I know” board where students demonstrate their knowledge of important information such as their parents’ name, street address, and phone number. This website also offers ideas of books to read when focusing on safety.

** 3. ****// Education-Portal.com: Policeman Career Information, Job Duties, and Responsibilities //**

- http://education-portal.com/policeman_career.html - This website offers key information about the responsibilities and roles a police officer plays in our community. Teachers can use this site to reference specific duties of a police officer such as making arrests, directing traffic, responding to 911 calls, etc. Teachers can pull information from this site to use as an introduction to a unit on police officers.

Alexa Eshack

o [] o Summary: This is a great internet tool that shows you many different maps. You can start on a large area, like the United States, then zoom all of the way up to the University of Central Florida (you can literally see the Teaching Academy building)! The closer you get the better satellite view you see.
 * 1. National Geographic Maps- **

o [] o Summary: This is a website that has many activities a teacher can print out to teach lesson on the community. It has a coloring sheet to practice the students’ addresses and a mini-book for the students to complete related to their home. There are also activities related to community workers, such as firemen and police officers.
 * 2. DLTK’s My Community Crafts and Coloring for Kids- **

o [] o Summary: This is a great video that tells the story Rosie’s Walk. It is about a hen who leaves her coup and a fox tries to catch her. This can be related to a community because the hen wanders around but makes it back home.
 * 3. Youtube: Rosies Walk- **

Cheryl Mahaffey

1. [] a. This website is a site where you can set up your own class “bank”. The teacher becomes the banker and can actually allocate an allowance, interest, etc. to each of the students in the class. This will help the students to understand how a bank operates. 2. [] a. This website has various coloring pages for the students to be able to color people that they would find in their community. I believe that these coloring pages would help students be able to identify these people when they see them in their community. 3. [] a. This website has lessons and resources to use to teach the community lesson plans for many of the lower grade levels that are in the elementary schools. Kindergarten through third grade all do this lesson on communities so there are many different resources on this site that are beneficial to students and helpful for the teacher!

Ashley Lamson

 · Duke Children’s Hospital and Health Center: Hospital Visit []

 This website prepares kids for an overnight visit to the hospital. It tells them what they need to expect, why they may be staying overnight, what they can wear, and any other questions kids might have when staying at the hospital. The hospital can be a scary place, especially for a kid spending his first night there so this website makes the experience more welcoming for the children.

 · USFA Kids: U.S. Fire Administration for Kids []

 This website teaches children all about fire safety. They have information on home fire safety, escaping from fires, and smoke alarms. They make this website very inviting for children because there are different activities, such as a crossword puzzle, coloring pages, and a word search. These activities make learning about such an importing subject fun for the children so that the information can be retained in their brains.

 · Welcome to the Further Adventures of Kidd Safety []

 This website talks to kids about preventing injuries that can be avoided. They teach children to wear their helmets, be safe on a playground, and how to be safe on the scooter. This website relates to the hospital because if the students do not follow these safety tips they may end up injured and in the hospital. The website uses different characters to keep the kids entertained as they learn how to be safe through visiting the different links on the webpage.

 · Kids Health from Nemours []  This website provides information on all aspects of the human body. You can learn about your feelings, how to stay healthy, how the body works, the growing body and mind, injuries and illnesses, etc. If kids are concerned about something with their body, this website will help them figure out whether or not it is an actual problem. If the child needs to see a doctor, the website will let them know that they should get checked out. Otherwise, the website will inform the child on what is going on with their body and that it is perfectly normal. For example, if a child is worried about how quickly he is growing the website will be able to inform him that he is just experiencing a growth spurt.

==Elizabeth Mori ==

 **Internet Search**

**Name of Site: Fire Safety for Kids**

**Website Address:** []

**Brief Summary:** I have to say that this website is really good and does make children understand why it is important to take in consideration safety tips about fire. This website can be adapted for kindergartners until probably first grade, Even though it has a little bit of reading (which is almost nothing) kindergartners can still understand what is going on, what is good and bad, and why it is important to take precautions about fire.

**Name of Site:** Fire Truck and Firefighters

**Website Address:** []

**Brief Summary:** This website is amazing for kindergartners. They have so many activities to do about firefighters. Everything is related about them, from fire truck made out of a cardboard box until calendars. What I like the most is that you can not run out of sources having in consideration this website. Also, I must say that each activity can be implemented to different subjects and as educators we want that for our students.

**Name of Site:** Twiggle Magazine

**Website Address:** []

**Brief Summary:** I really like this website, because as the previous one, it is really complete. There are many ideas that teachers can get from here in order to introduce the fire station to children in their community.