Community Helpers Jeopardy

Firefighters, doctors, mail carriers, and good citizens: a free community helpers game for young classes, played with phones or tablets as buzzers.

6 categories · 30 clues · Final Jeopardy · everyone buzzes in from their phone

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Who Helps Us

$200
This helper puts out fires.
Who is a firefighter?
$400
This helper brings letters and packages to your home.
Who is a mail carrier?
$600
This helper cleans and checks your teeth.
Who is a dentist?
$800
This helper is a doctor for sick animals.
Who is a veterinarian?
$1,000
This helper flies an airplane.
Who is a pilot?

Tools of the Job

$200
A firefighter sprays water from this long tube.
What is a hose?
$400
A teacher writes on this at the front of the classroom.
What is a whiteboard (or chalkboard)?
$600
A police officer wears this shiny symbol on the uniform.
What is a badge?
$800
A farmer drives this big machine to pull a plow.
What is a tractor?
$1,000
A doctor uses this tool to listen to your heartbeat.
What is a stethoscope?

Where They Work

$200
Teachers work in this building.
What is a school?
$400
Doctors and nurses care for very sick people in this building.
What is a hospital?
$600
The big red trucks park here, and the crew waits for the alarm.
What is a fire station?
$800
You can borrow books for free at this place.
What is a library?
$1,000
Mail carriers pick up the day's mail from this building.
What is a post office?

Staying Safe

$200
You should wear this on your head when you ride a bike.
What is a helmet?
$400
You should always buckle this when you ride in a car.
What is a seat belt?
$600
If your clothes catch on fire, you stop, drop and do this.
What is roll?
$800
Before crossing a street, look left, then right, then this way again.
What is left?
$1,000
This helper wears a bright vest and helps children cross the street near school.
Who is a crossing guard?

Rules and Laws

$200
A red, eight-sided sign tells drivers to do this.
What is stop?
$400
A green traffic light tells drivers to do this.
What is go?
$600
This leader is in charge of a town or city.
Who is the mayor?
$800
This person wears a black robe and is in charge of a courtroom.
Who is a judge?
$1,000
Throwing trash on the ground instead of in a can is called this, and it is against the law.
What is littering?

Good Citizens

$200
You say this polite word when you ask for something.
What is please?
$400
Picking up trash at the park keeps our community this.
What is clean?
$600
Putting cans, bottles and paper in a special bin so they can be used again is called this.
What is recycling?
$800
Grown-up citizens choose their leaders by doing this.
What is voting?
$1,000
Working for free to help others, like at a food bank, is called this.
What is volunteering?

Final Jeopardy — Help Is Here

In the United States, this is the three-digit number to call in an emergency to reach police, firefighters, or an ambulance.

What is 911?

How to run this board

Young students meet the people who keep a town running on this board: who puts out fires, who delivers the mail, who teaches, and who helps when someone is sick. Other columns cover the tools each helper uses, the places they work, and what it means to be a good citizen at school and at home.

For kindergarten and first grade, read every clue aloud and let one grown-up or older student run the buzzer for each team. Accepting a description instead of a job title, such as the person who fights fires, keeps the focus on understanding rather than vocabulary.

If a local firefighter, librarian, or crossing guard is visiting the class, this makes a good warm-up before they arrive.

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