Minds On

Let’s explore the outdoors

Explore the following images.

  • What do you notice in each image?
  • What might you do in each place?

Pause and Reflect

Think

All natural and built things can be found in natural communities.

What do you think the words natural and built mean?

If possible, share your thoughts with someone else.

As you work through this learning activity, you can record your ideas in many ways.

Listen to the following audio recording to learn more about how to record your ideas.

How to Record Your Ideas

Action

Natural and built

A chipmunk and chickadee on a park bench near a pond with a duck in it.

There are many things in our community.

Some are natural and some are built.

When we call something natural, it means that it is part of nature.

When we call something built, it means that it was created by humans.

Check out the following interactive entitled Natural and Built to see examples.

Let’s look again at the images from the Minds On section.

  • What is natural?
  • What is built?

Image 1: A park scene with benches and grass. An arrow points to the benches and says they are built. Another arrow points to the grass and says it is natural.

Image 2: A child and their guardian walking through a forest path. An arrow points to the trees that says they are natural and another one point to a bush that says plants are natural.

Learning check!

Let’s decide which things are natural and which things are built. Choose the correct answer.

Make a community

Let’s do an activity!

First, we are going to make our own community.

Your community will have natural and built things in it.

Place the natural and built things on the map by clicking on the things, then on the square you want them to go.

What if the natural things were not in our community anymore? What do you think would happen?

We need to make sure that we take care of the natural things in our community.

Let’s look at some examples of how we can help take care of nature.

Consolidation

Let’s help our natural community

Possible materials

A drawing of a house with art supplies around it.
  • pencil
  • paper
  • crayons or markers
Learners wearing protective gloves picking up garbage in a park and putting it into a garbage bag.

Draw or describe your favourite place in your community

What are 1 or 2 actions you can take to help protect your community?

Reflection

How do you feel about what you have learned in this activity? Press the button next to the sentence that matches how you feel.

I feel…