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Rights and Responsibilities in Our Community

  • Grade 1
  • Social Studies
  • 1 min
  • British Columbia
  • BC1-SS-04

Children at a playground, a library and a pond show three rights everyone has in a community: to play, to borrow books and to enjoy nature. Each right is paired with the responsibility that goes with it, to other people or to nature: taking turns, bringing books back and cleaning up litter.

Concept: Rights and responsibilities in a community

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The question this lesson answers

Our community has a playground, a library and a pond.

What may we do here? What should we do?

Transcript

What the lesson says

Our community has a playground, a library and a pond.

What may we do here? What should we do?

Things everyone may do are called rights.

We may play at the playground.

We may borrow books from the library.

We may enjoy the pond and its ducks.

Things we should do for others and nature are responsibilities.

We take turns on the slide.

We bring back our books on time.

We clean up litter so the ducks stay safe.

When we do our part, everyone can enjoy their rights.

Rights are what we may do. Responsibilities are what we should do.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 1

Social Studies, Community: roles, rights, and responsibilities in the local communityBC1-SS-04

Previous: Many Cultures in One CommunityNext: Then and Now: How a Community Changes

The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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