Build a Community Helper Diorama Research and Writing Pop Up Activities

These community helper dioramas are a great way to combine social studies standards with writing. Your students will love researching and getting to design and create their own easy-prep community helper diorama craft.

This resource includes 10 easy-prep projects:

• Dentist
• Doctor
• Firefighter
• Teacher
• Postal Worker
• Construction Worker
• Grocery Clerk
• Police Officer
• Mechanic
• Veterinarian
• Farmer
• Chef

Each community helper includes a variety of writing templates to allow students to display research and newly learned knowledge about their community helper/career researched. Students can choose an imaginative narrative template write about what they think it would be like to be the community helper, an informative writing template to give facts about their community helper and job duties or tools, or a persuasive writing template to persuade someone to do that community helper's job.

You can have students research a community helper of choice or turn this resource into a multi-week unit for researching and creating different community helper dioramas. After students have completed one of these community helper projects, they can also make a great addition to writing centers.

PLEASE NOTE: It is recommended that diorama pages/add-on pieces be printed on cardstock, construction paper or backed with cardboard/a shoebox for stability. Students can cut down any of the pieces needed to assemble their rooms to their liking. 

Students will need grade level appropriate fine motor/scissor skills for this activity. They will also need an appropriate amount of time to complete this activity, as it is an art project and writing research project combined. Pieces do have cutlines for easy cutting for primary students.