Minds On
What is this place?
Let’s start by exploring the following carousel. There are descriptions and images of many places that you may notice from your community.
Post office
A post office is a place where people can pick up or drop off mail.
There is a sign in the image indicating an emergency room, with a first responder entering the doors. There is an ambulance in the image as well.
Emergency room
An emergency entrance at a hospital. An ambulance and paramedics are outside.
Four school aged children in a hallway taking a selfie. They are all smiling at the camera.
Indigenous Friendship Centre
Community centres offer lots of fun sports and activities.
This is an image of the back of people’s heads, sitting in seats. They are all watching something on a screen.
Movie theatre
A movie theatre auditorium has rows of seats and a large screen on one end.
This is an image of a row of ice cream vats behind a counter with ice cream toppings and freezers in the background of the image.
Ice cream shop
There are options to choose different flavours and toppings inside an ice cream shop.
Fire station
Fire stations are where firefighters stay before being called to put out fires.
Brainstorm
What’s in your community?
As you explored the carousel, how many places did you recognize? Do you know what each place is?
Now, choose one place from the carousel and think about this question:
- Why do people in the community come here?
If possible, share your thoughts with a partner, a friend, or a family member.
Record your ideas in a notebook or a method of your choice. You can share your thoughts on the computer, orally, or on paper.
Which place?
Let's use the previous images and descriptions to help with the following activity.
Click on each statement and match it with the correct place in the community.
Action
Task 1: Government services in my community
We are all citizens of our city or town. That means we live there and have a responsibility to follow the rules of our community. Those rules are made by the government.
Press 'Learn more' to reveal what a government is and does.
- People elect a government to provide service to communities.
- The government writes the rules and laws that should help the people who elected them.
- The government also provides some of the services in our community to keep us safe and healthy, and to make our city or town a better place to live.
Let's explore the different clues to guess what type of services the government provides to the community.
Complete the Government Services Word Bank in your notebook or using the following fillable and printable documents. You can also use another method of your choice.
When you are ready, check out the completed Government Services Word Bank activity.
Press ‘Let’s check!’ to reveal the the completed fill-in-the-blanks activity.
- Hospitals take care of people when they are sick and provide medicine to the community.
- Schools take care of children and give them an education.
- Post offices are places where we go to mail our letters.
- Police help people who are in trouble and keep us safe.
- Firefighters serve to protect the community by putting out fires and preventing fires from starting.
Task 2: Businesses in a community
In our community, we also have businesses that provide services.
A business is a place where you pay money to buy something or receive a service.
Press ‘Examples’ to explore some different types of businesses.
If you want to buy food, you would go to the grocery store.
If you wanted to get a haircut, you would go to a hair salon.
Brainstorm
What businesses are in your community?
Where can you go to buy something or receive a service?
Think of some of the businesses in your community, and explain what the business provides.
Record your ideas in a notebook or a method of your choice.
Press ‘Examples’ to explore some businesses and what they provide.
- A bakery is somewhere we can go to buy something. It provides freshly baked goods.
- A Service Ontario building is where we go to get health cards or licenses.
- A post office is where we go to mail packages or letters, or to buy stamps.
Consolidation
Your new business!
You are starting a new business in the community! Think about what services you want to provide or what your business will sell.
- Decide on what store you want to create.
- Design a picture of your store and record your ideas.
Complete the Design a Store activity in your notebook or use the following fillable and printable documents. You can also use another method of your choice.
Reflection
How do you feel about what you have learned in this activity? Which of the next four sentences best matches how you are feeling about your learning? Press the button that is beside this sentence.
I feel...
Now, record your ideas about your feelings using a voice recorder, speech-to-text, or writing tool.