Look for the Helpers: Coming to Help!

Look for the Helpers: Coming to Help!

Activity 1 of 7 in this unit

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Activity summary

At this activity station children explore how people travel in special vehicles to help us. This station is one of six in our Look for the Helpers series that are perfect for setting up for drop-off time or after lunch to scaffold child-centred exploration and learning.

Activity type

  • Imagination

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Activity Instructions
Look for the Helpers: Educator Resource

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Curriculum Mapping

EYLF Learning Outcomes

Outcome 4: Children Are Confident And Involved Learners - Children develop a range of learning and thinking skills and processes such as problem-solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating.

Skills: Literacy, Problem-solving

Resources Required

  • Emergency vehicle toys (ambulance, police, SES, fire trucks)
  • Toy figures for role-play
  • Phones (old phones that no longer work are best but toy phones work too!)
  • Floor mat with roads marked (or draw a road map on large butcher's paper with roads, houses and shops marked in, and join a few together to create a floor map).

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This is an original cool.org activity.

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