Lesson 1

Community: A group of people

that live and work in the same place.

Some examples of community are:

 School community
 Class community
 Firefighters community
 Doctors community

Citizen: The people who live in a community

are called citizens. Citizens are part of a community.
Culture: A way of life shared by members of a group.
What people eat, how they speak and dress,
and what they believe in,
music and art are parts of their culture.

Sharing cultures: Most communities have

people or citizens from more than one culture.
They share their foods, clothing, music, and art.

Business: In a business, workers make or sell things or do work for others. Like
these ones:

Bakery Shoemaking Carpentry

Needs: Things that are necessary to live, like food, clothing, a place to live, and
medical care.
Wants: Things that can make your life better or easier but are not necessary, like
toys, Tablet, expensive and fancy shoes or dresses.

 People of a community come together in places like schools, theatres,

parks, and museums.
Museum: A place where people go to see things from other places and times.

Laws: Rules that a community makes are called laws. Laws help people stay safe
like traffic laws.

Government: A group of people that makes laws for a community, state, or

country and solve problems. Members of government are chosen by citizens.