Community Services and Their Tasks

Supplied materials

• Paper and pencil; drawing or spoken answers are welcome.
• Topic notes: Fire service: a service responding to fires and other emergencies. Public library: a service providing books and learning resources. Waste collection: a service collecting discarded material. Public transit: a service carrying passengers on shared routes.
• Original exercise cards: A fictional crew responds to a reported building fire. / A fictional resident borrows a reference book. / A fictional truck collects household rubbish. / A fictional city bus carries riders to stops. / A resident attends a library reading activity. / Workers pick up bins on a scheduled route. / A public train carries passengers between stations. / A crew prepares equipment for fire response.

Learn the idea

Communities organize services to meet common needs. Firefighters respond to fires and other emergencies. A public library provides learning resources. Waste collection removes discarded material. Public transit moves passengers. These are simplified job descriptions, not directions for dealing with an actual emergency.

Fire service: a service responding to fires and other emergencies. Public library: a service providing books and learning resources. Waste collection: a service collecting discarded material. Public transit: a service carrying passengers on shared routes.

Look at the service’s task: responding to fire, providing books, collecting rubbish or carrying passengers. Ask an adult to read the notes and cards aloud. Point, draw or say your answer.

1. Ask an adult to read the four notes. Find the words Fire service, Public library, Waste collection, Public transit.
2. Look at the service’s task: responding to fire, providing books, collecting rubbish or carrying passengers.
3. Read the worked answer. Then try the other cards and explain which words helped you choose.
4. Point to, draw or say two different examples: one for Fire service and one for Public library. Explain how their clues differ.

Check your reasoning

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Take it further

New card: “A crew prepares equipment for fire response.” Match it with a note, then point to or say the words that helped. Check: The card says: “A crew prepares equipment for fire response.” That matches Fire service. Fire service is a service responding to fires and other emergencies.

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