WOW Game Title: So Many Jobs in Our Community
Content Area: Social Studies
TEKS Focus: Jobs in the Community and Their Tools
Physical Education Unit: Gymnastics/Creative Movements
Grade: Kinder
Resource(s): Interdisciplinary Teaching Through Physical Education by Cone, T.,
Werner, P., Cone, S., Woods A. and Movement Based Learning by Clements, L. and
Schneider, S.
Equipment/Materials: None
Set Up: Students are scattered in self-space
Activity:
Review the following jobs in the communities:
 Housekeeper- It their responsibility to keep other people’s homes tidy and clean
o Actions: use your hands to pretend to dust the furniture, imagine you are
pushing a large vacuum along the floor, shake the rugs to remove the dirt,
stretch upward to wash the windows.
 Police Officers- They enforce laws to keep people safe from crime
o Actions: wave your hands to direct traffic, pretend to drive the squad car
away from the station, pretend to write a ticket to someone who was
speeding
 Bus drivers- They transport people safely from one place to another
o Actions: pretend you are driving the bus. What do you do when the light
is green (jog), yellow (walk), and red (stop)? When it rains, the bus driver
uses the windshield wipers. Move your arms back and forth like the
wipers. Wave good-bye to the passengers as they look both ways to cross
the street.
 Artists- The first paintings were made by people drawing on cave walls. These
drawings show hunters chasing and throwing spears at animals. Today’s artists draw
or paint pictures for people to display in their homes or buildings.
o Actions: dip your brush onto the palette of paints. Can you paint a circle,
a square, a rectangle, or a triangle? Is it possible to paint the outline of a
person’s body in the air? Now, trace a frame around your painting and
hang it high on the wall for everyone to see. Pretend to wash your hands
and then shake them dry.
Pick the job you like best from the ones we reviewed (or come up with your own), and
make a movement sequence of tasks that you might perform at this job. Include three
different actions. Can members of your class guess your job?
Variations:
 Turn it into a freeze tag game once they have practiced guessing the jobs
according to their creative movements. If they are tagged, they must stand
stationary and act out a job until someone guesses it. Then, they will be unfrozen
and continue to play the game.
Review Questions:
Skill focus: What job movements made you breathe more heavily?
Academic focus: Why is it important for people to have jobs?