Activities Brainstorm questions students have about jobs in the community. Set priorities and choose the questions that will be most useful in obtaining the information that they want. Use these questions to create a chart for recording data. Practice asking questions on a sibling or parent and then use the questions to survey community workers and record the finding on the chart. Share both stories on Minibus and see if other students can guess which is which.
Brainstorm needs and wants within the home or local community.
Classify the items on the list. Ask them to select one need and one want that is important to them, and provide several reasons why it is important in a letter to the editor, a journal entry or orally to other family members. Make a photocopy of the text, and then cut it into three or four parts. Give it to the child in random order and ask him or her to reassemble it in the correct sequence. When finished, you can compare it with the original and then discuss any differences.