FUTURE VOLUNTEERS!
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This web quest will tell you
what you need to know
about what a volunteer
does and why it is
important!
You will get to go on a
journey and explore how to
become a volunteer!
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Table Of Contents
Introduction
Let’s Start Our Journey
Before We Become an expert
Table Of Contents
Vocabulary Words
Vocabulary Duties
Who Am I?
What You Can Do!
Some More Ideas
Volunteer Work
Recycling
What I Recycle
Chart
Greater Or Less Than?
Class Activity
Answer
In The Classroom…
Experts!
Question
Sharing What We Learn!
Mission Accomplished!
Teacher Page: Overview
Teacher Page Continued…
Georgia Performance Standards
Standards Continued
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Let’s start our journey!
• First things first-let’s think about
what being a volunteer means. What
do you think a volunteer does? Does
being a volunteer help make you a
positive American citizen? Talk about
this with your partner and then begin
the journey to find the answers!
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Before We Become An Expert
• Now that you have an idea of what a
volunteer is, lets learn some
important vocabulary words….
Volunteer
Community
Giving
Recycle
Helper
Respect
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Vocabulary Words
Volunteer- to offer to help someone because you care
Giving- to offer to another
Helper- a person that gives assistance to another
Community- a group of people who help and support each other
Recycle- when items can be used again
Respect- to show that you are being thoughtful
Now lets practice writing these six new
vocabulary words in our journals!
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Volunteer Duties
Now let’s think-what does a
volunteer do? We now know that a
community volunteer is someone
who helps in your community to
make things better.
Use the clues on the next page and
try and guess the volunteers in your
community! Come on, let’s go!
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Who Am I?
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deliver the mail to your house. Who am I?
help you find books. Who am I?
help people feel better. Who am I?
help put out fires. Who am I?
help protect your community. Who am I?
help you learn in school. Who am I?
After thinking about the answers, click
here!!
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What You Can Do!
1.Clean up after you make a mess.
2.Help your family.
3.Help your friends-share and care!
4.Help your teacher and your school.
5.Be a volunteer!
6.You are now a positive American
citizen!!
Click here for some more ideas!!
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Some more ideas…
Help set the table
Clean your room
Pick Up Trash
Recycle
Help a friend
Share
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Volunteer Work
One activity we can all do as a class
project is recycle.
Let’s say it together:
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!
Have any of you ever recycled before?
To learn more, watch this video!
Here is a game about recycling. Click
here!
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Recycling
• Things we recycle:
Aluminum cans
Plastic bottles
Cardboard
Glass
Newspapers
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What I recycle
These are all the things Ms. Orenstein
tries to recycle every week:
Aluminum
Cans
3
Plastic Bottles 7
Cardboard
2
Glass
0
Newspapers
3
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Chart
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Greater or Less Than?
Using the column chart and pie chart,
answer these questions:
• Does Ms. Orenstein recycle more plastic
bottles than aluminum cans?
• Does Ms. Orenstein recycle more glass
than newspaper?
• What does Ms. Orenstein recycle the
most of?
• What does Ms. Orenstein recycle the
least of?
Column Chart
Pie Chart
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Class Activity
• Each one of us should try and recycle
a few items every day!
3 items
on
Monday
5 items on
Tuesday
1 item on
Wednesday
? items
on
Thursday
? items
on Friday
We each recycle 3 items on Monday, 5 items on Tuesday, and 1 item on
Wednesday. If we need to recycle the same amount on Thursday and Friday,
then how much do we recycle in order to reach fifteen recycled objects by
Friday? Think with your partner…. Write ideas in your math journal. Then
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Answer!
• 3
5
1
3
3
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15 ITEMS EVERY WEEK! THAT
WOULD BE GREAT!!!!
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In The Classroom…
• There will be a bulletin board in the
classroom to remind all of us to
recycle each week! We will empty it
out at the end of each week and see
just how much we collected as a
class!
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Experts!
Congratulations! You have now
learned about volunteers and one
thing you can do in your community;
Recycle!
Now I want you to sit with a partner
and think of five other things you can
do to volunteer in your family,
school, and community! Be sure to
write them down in your journals!
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Question
• Does being a volunteer help make
you a positive American citizen?
YES!!!
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Sharing What We Learn!
• Using what we learned, lets create a
poster explaining why it is important
to be a volunteer in your community!
Be sure to make the sign colorful!!
Use the vocabulary words!
Be ready to share it with the other first
graders!
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Mission Accomplished!
• EXCELLENT WORK FIRST
GRADE!!
• You are now prepared to
become future
volunteers!!!
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Remember….
REDUCE, REUSE RECYCLE!!!
Help in your community and be a volunteer!!
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GOODBYE AND THANKS FOR
STOPPING BY!!
Go to the next page for your
evaluation!
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Evaluation
• Now that you have become an expert on
how to be a positive American citizen,
share your knowledge with your group
members.
• As a group create a public service
announcement about how to be an active
American with a positive influence.
• Get ready to share this announcement
with your kindergarten buddies!
• Show them that YOU are a positive
American citizen.
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