November 12, 2012. This was my final lesson for my semester here in M500. This chapter was on Who Provides Services in a Community. I started out my lesson explaining to my students that over the past few weeks we have been talking about geography, maps, environment, pollution and natural resources. I told my students everything we been talking about has been about earth type stuff. Mountains, rivers, oceans, plains, valleys, deserts, plants and animals. I told my students we are going to now talk about people and how people are also considered a natural resource. A natural resource for other people to use for services. I gave examples of firefighters, police, doctors, etc. I then asked my students to give me examples of people who provide services and what type of service it is and the hands started raising. I went from student to student and they were providing me examples. I even had students raising their hands just to raise their hands. I would pick on them and they had nothing to say. I guess the just like raising their hands for the fun of it. I used the school building as an example of all the different people it took to build the school and all the different services that were used to complete the building. Brick layers, plumbers, electricians, carpet layers and painters to name a few.

I had my students work on a worksheet then I used the "Elmo" to show the class a youtube video.The class liked the video so much they asked me to play it again. After the video I had the class work on another worksheet where they had to match the name of the service to the definition. The students did a nice job on this worksheet. After this worksheet was finished I played another video to show the pride people get when they provide services to the community above and beyond their job.

After the last video I explained to my students how I use to be a Firefighter years ago and how the Fire Department does a lot of community service. I told them about fund raisers, food and coat drives every December so we could provide a nice Christmas and meals for those who are a little less off than the rest of us. The video may have been a little above their understanding, but I feel they got the idea.