Sites (20)

3 Plus U
UN site about the importance and need to work.

BOS Resources
List of sites suitable for this unit.

Careers
Learn about what is involved with many different careers.

Colour Our World With Kindness
Learn how people in the community care for each other.

Community Club
Click on each worker to find out more about what they do.

Community Helper Wordsearch Game
Try this fun game online.

Delivering the Goods
Presentation about understanding goods and services.

Goods or Services?
Drag the pictures to the goods or services boxes.

Himonkey Visits The Dentist
Read along with this online picture book.

Living With A Single Parent
Information for kids about living with a single parent.

My Family
Information about jobs around the house.

My Name is Anastasia
Anastasia, Grand Duchess of Russia, talks about her life in her own words.

Mystery Workers
Drag the workers to the correct place.

Needs Vs. Wants - Learning Activity
Interactive explanation and game related to needs and wants.

People Who Help Us Links
Extensive collection of links to various community agencies grouped under the headings of Rescue, Protection, Caring and Sharing.

People, Places and Things That Help Me
Learn about the emergency room, read what a dentist does, see why stitches are super, and more.

State Emergency Kids Page
Interactive games to play online.

StoryTeller - Families
Everybody's family is different. Read these stories written by kids about their families.

What Is My Job?
Interactive game.

Workers and Their Hats
Click and drag the names of the workers to their correct hats.

Lessons (25)

A Web of Workers
This activity emphasizes the interdependence of workers in the community.

Berenstain Bears - My Family Elders
Students explore family and community by looking at elders in their family, such as grandparents.

Build Your Community
Students will learn about a variety of businesses and the service they provide to a community.

Communities - What They Provide For Us
Students will learn that a job is work people do to earn a living in the world today.

Community Helpers are at Your Service
Students learn that Community Helpers provide a service for their neighborhood.

Community Workers
Activities, songs and games to introduce the roles of various community workers.

Delivering the Goods
In this lesson, students have the opportunity to complete an interactive activity that teaches them about providers of goods and services.

Dog Gone Job
This lesson demonstrates how job specialization increases productivity.

Everything Comes From Something
In this lesson students will learn about renewable and nonrenewable resources and trace resources' points of origin by constructing and analyzing a product map.

Eyewitness to History
In this lesson, students explore this second set of connections, talking with family members about landmark events they have witnessed in their lifetimes to learn how history touches our lives.

Firefighter Protective Clothing Tour
Explains the role of firefighters as well as videos of equipment.

Groups We Belong To
In this lesson, students will begin to think about and identify different kinds of groups. They will see that people are born into certain groups and that they join others.

Lean on Me
The purpose of this activity is to demonstrate that the production of most goods can be broken down into a number of specific tasks.

Needs and Wants
Card sorting activity to help students determine needs and wants.

People Who Help Us
Learn about the police and firefighters using this project.

Police in Our Community
Activities that teach the role of police in the community.

The Right Job For The Tortoise and the Hare
This lesson helps to explain how specialization benefits a community.

We Are Consumers and Producers
In this lesson students learn how they and family members fulfill these roles at home and in their community.

Webquest: Community Helpers
Who are the people in your neighbourhood? It is time to find out.

Webquest: Workers in The Community
This web quest will help you learn about community helpers.

What Do Other People Want To Be?
In this lesson, you will graph people's job choices and identify what goods and services each job provides.

What Do You Want To Be?
In this lesson, students have the opportunity to explore various jobs and decide what they might want to be when they grow up through an interactive activity.

Who Lives In My Family?
Worksheet where students record information about their family.

Working Hard for a Living
This lesson introduces students to work activities that grown-ups do to earn money.

You Decide
This lesson teaches students how to apply a decision making model that they can use in their family and at school.

Software (1)

BOS Resources
List of Software suitable for this unit.

Texts (1)

BOS Resources
List of Texts suitable for this unit.

Videos (1)

BOS Resources
List of Videos suitable for this unit.

Teacher References (12)

Aboriginal Park Rangers
Learn about some Aboriginal Park Rangers from the Top End.

Community Helper Activities
Click on a community helper to find lots of fun teaching ideas.

Community Helper Fingerplays, Action Poems and Songs
These easy to learn poems, fingerplays and action songs help young children understand the different kinds of work people in their communities perform.

Community Helpers Poster
Poster for wall display for this unit of work.

Community Helpers Teaching Theme
Poster Clipart of various professions.

Community Workers
Activities, songs and games that introduce the roles of various community workers.

Create a Community Model
Create a model of what a community looks like.

Enchanted Learning: People, Occupations, and Community
People and Occupation Words in Picture Dictionary Format.

Family Roles
Information on family roles said to be key to successful family functioning.

State Emergency Services: Student Information
Here is where students of all levels can find information on the SES, floods, storms and other activities the SES does in the community.

What Jobs Do People Do?
List of ideas for community workers theme.

Which Way Our Future
To ensure the ongoing survival of their culture, Rainforest Aboriginal people have been negotiating for shared management of their traditional country with government agencies.