Lesson · Grade 3 · Career Education

Jobs in a Community

  • Grade 3
  • Career Education
  • 54 s
  • British Columbia
  • BC3-CA-05

A builder, a nurse, a teacher, a farmer and a firefighter each appear beside their place on one street, and the video shows what each job does for the community. Each job is then matched to what it gives the community (homes, health care, learning, food and safety), and the video ends by saying that many jobs help our community.

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In one sentence

The question this lesson answers

Who are the people who work in our community?

A community is a place where people live and work.

Transcript

What the lesson says

Who are the people who work in our community?

A community is a place where people live and work.

Builders build the homes that people live in.

Nurses help people who are sick get better.

Teachers help children learn new things.

Farmers grow vegetables and other food for us to eat.

Firefighters help keep us all safe.

Each job gives us something we need: homes, health care, learning, food and safety.

There are many more jobs too, like bus drivers.

Which job would you like to do one day?

People in many different jobs help our community.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 3

Career Education, Career education: jobs in the local communityBC3-CA-05

Previous: Roles and responsibilities: everyone has jobs

The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.