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Internet Portfolio Piece: Community Workers Project (3rd grade Social Studies Project)  Lesson Plan

(the rest is on the wikispace for students...)

We have been studying communities and community workers for the past month. Now, it is your turn to learn about a specific community worker and then teach the class about him or her! You will need to interview your community worker (using a video camera), post your video on our wikispace, and then watch some of your friends' videos to learn about their community workers//.// Make sure to use the rubric below, and please follow these steps:

1. Choose a community worker. By definition, this could be anyone who works in our community. You may not choose anyone in your family, and you must interview this person where he or she works (see me or the helpful links below for ideas)Hills. You will have 2 weeks to decide on your community worker, and you must clear it with me. Set up a time and place for your interview that is convenient for both you and your community worker. I will have a sign-up sheet for when you may check out a video camera to use.

2. Prepare for your interview. Make sure you have at least 10 good questions for the community worker you will interview. Take the questions with you on paper. Some examples are: Why did you become a ? What is your favorite thing about what you do? How do you think being a ___ helps our community?

3. Conduct your interview. Act professional and polite! Make sure you and your community worker speak loudly enough so the video camera picks up your voice (you may need to use the microphone). Remember to thank your community worker in some way.

4. Make a new page on our class community workers wikispace, and upload your video to this page. Name the page with your name + interview (Joey's Interview). Provide a link to your page from our wikispace (Don't worry, I will teach you how to do that!!).

5. Make a new page entitled name + reports (Joey's reports) in which you will post your report on your interview. The report should be at least a 5 sentence paragraph in which you summarize what you learned in your interview.

6. Watch at least 2 of your classmates' interviews (ones in which they did not interview the same type of community worker you did), and write reports on their interviews in which you summarize what you learned. Watch the other interviews just for fun!

RUBRIC (out of 20 points): your interview** ||= Set up interview independently and timely. ||= Set up interview with little help. ||= Relied on others to set up interview. ||= Relied on others to set up interview. ||= Did not set up interview || that will lead to interesting answers ||= 10 questions ||= 8 questions ||= 5 questions ||= no questions ||
 * =  ||= 5 ||= 4 ||= 3 ||= 2 ||= 1 ||
 * = **Setting up
 * = **Interview questions** ||= 10 thought-out questions
 * = **Conducting the Interview** ||= Conducted interview in a poised and professional manner. Interview lasted at least 5 minutes. ||= Conducted interview in a professional manner. ||= Conducted interview. ||= Received help in conducting interview. ||= Did not conduct interview. ||
 * = **Reports** ||= All 3 reports were interesting, at least 5 sentences, and accurately reflected what was in each interview. ||= Wrote all 3 reports, each at least 5 sentences. ||= Only 2 reports or reports were too short. ||= Only 1 report. ||= No reports. ||

HELPFUL LINKS: Class Community Workers Wikispace [|Hillsboro High School] [|West End Middle School] [|Fire Station] [|Police Station] [|Doctor's Office] [|Veterinarian] [|Plumbing Company]

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