Introduction
Neighbors, calling all neighbors! The other day a new family came to our community to live. The only problem is, they don’t know anything about all the helpful community members we have in our town.

As helpful neighbors you and your classmates have just been called to get as much information about our community members as possible! Community members are so important, each and everyone of you are a community member!

Don’t you ever wish someone told you who your different community members were and how they could help you? Haven’t you ever wondered what certain community members look like and what kinds of tools they use to help? This is what you all are here to do is help this new family by telling them about the different community members they can find in their new home town.

So put on your helpful neighbor hat and lets get to work!

Teacher
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Doctors
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Step 4: Great job! Now that you have all this fantastic information to help your new neighbors we need to make sure all the information you collected is helpful! Get together with your group and decide what information will be of most help to the new family! The teacher will hand out a graphic organizer that will help you organize all of your great research!

It may be helpful to give each person a job:
Recorder: writing the information down
Discussion leader: you’re the person who keeps the conversation/activity on task
Topic one: you pick a certain topic everyone was assigned to research (perhaps you are the person who asks questions about what tools this person uses)
Topic two: You do the same as topic one but pick a different topic (perhaps you are the person who asks questions and gathers information about what kinds of ways they help the community)
Topic three: same as topic one and two you just choose another topic of research to gather and ask questions about the information that was found.

Step 5: You and your group will write an informative letter (with the information on your group’s graphic organizer) to the new family about your community member to put on the back of your kid sized model you will make in the next step!

Step 6: Time to show the community what your helpful member looks like pick a member of your neighborhood to trace on a piece of white butcher paper that the teacher gives to you and your neighborhood. After you have traced a member then it’s up to you to craft an outfit/uniform out of construction paper available in the room and other art materials that are available to you!

Things to keep in mind putting on your community member helper:
- Tools they use
- What they wear that helps them help you!
- What shows the community that this is what they are (examples: Badges, name tags…)

Get creative and have fun!!

Step 7: Time to get ready to present your wonderful community member!

So what will happen during our presentations?
- You will get a portion of the room to call your neighborhood!
- You will post your community member in that area of the room and for the presentation time you will put your letter about your member out on the table in front of your person. Each person needs to have a couple pieces of information about your person to share with your community members that come over to your neighborhood!
- Two neighborhoods at a time will go around and look at the other neighborhoods and write information they learn about their community members. Use the graphic organizers provided by the teacher!

Step 8: Put on your name on your presentation graphic organizer, and make sure all of your neighborhood members have put their names on the back of your kid size community member helper, and your letter turn them all into the teacher at the end of the day so your teacher can post all your letters and community members in the school so we can help the rest of our student community know more about how our community members can help them!!

	Beginning 1	Developing 2	Accomplished 3	Exemplary 4	Score
Reasearch and Information Gathering	Shows little or no evidence of throrough research using the provided online resources.	Shows some evidence of research using the provided online resources.	A good amount of evidence is given showing thorough research using the provided online resources.	The amount of evidence of research exceeds the amount of research required of the provided online resources.
Letter Writing and Structure	Letter lacks organization and information included to help make the letter naturally flow.	Letter shows emergent signs of organization with key facts of information to start to make the letter infomative.	Letter is well organized and flows well with several key facts which makes the letter more informative and useful.	Letter is very well organized with many key facts which makes the letter very informative and useful.
Letter Writing and Conventions	Letter lacks proper conventions necessary to read easily.	Letter shows emergent knowledge of conventions which makes the letter a little easier to read.	Letter shows great use of conventions whichs gives the letter a good and natural flow.	The letter uses conventions with out errors and is very easy to read.
Group Work and Collaboration	Did not effectivly work with other group members.	Worked effectively sometimes with other group members	Usually worked effectively with other group members.	Always worked effectively with other group members.
"Kid Sized Community Member"	The project is incomplete and shows no work.	The project is partially done and shows little work.	The project is mostly done and shows thoughtful work.	The project is done very well with extra thought.