Meet the Eco Community Helpers
Meet the Eco Community Helpers is a four-session dramatic-play environmental career series that introduces young children to real-world helpers who protect, build, teach, and care for the Earth. Through dramatic play, props, storytelling, visuals, and hands-on activities, children discover who these helpers are, what they do, and how their work supports communities and the environment.
Each session highlights three Eco Community Helpers, combining familiar occupations with careers children may not have encountered before. Children become active participants by exploring career-related tools and props, responding to visual presentations, and completing an activity that reinforces each helper’s role.
The series builds environmental and career vocabulary, confidence, creativity, and early awareness of green occupations. Most importantly, children begin seeing environmental careers as possibilities for themselves and recognizing that people with different skills can work together to care for the Earth.
Learning and Standards Alignment
Meet the Eco Community Helpers supports the California Preschool/Transitional Kindergarten Learning Foundations in Science, Language and Literacy Development, Social and Emotional Development, History– Social Science, and Visual and Performing Arts. For kindergarten learners, the series aligns with relevant California Common Core State Standards and California Next Generation Science Standards. Detailed standards alignment is available upon request.
Introduce Your Young Learners to Eco Community Helpers
Help children discover the people and careers working to create healthier, safer, and more sustainable communities. Available for early childhood centers, home-based programs, TK and kindergarten classrooms, schools, and community organizations.