A blocked path
People are digging up the sidewalk and you have to walk around. It is annoying.
What is worth remembering?
Life Skills · Discover · Pre-K to Grade 2
Chapter 8: Community
Somebody takes away the trash. Somebody fixes the road.
Somebody takes away the trash. Somebody fixes the road.
2 situations to decide. There is often more than one good answer: pick one and see what happens.
A blocked path
What is worth remembering?
At school
What could you do?
Roads, water, trash, buses, hospitals. None of them work by themselves. People do them.
The trash gets picked up while you are asleep. The water gets cleaned somewhere you have never been.
People who do jobs like this are often not thanked at all. Noticing them costs nothing.
These ones do have right answers.
Tap a thing, then tap who looks after it.
Match each one to the people who keep it going.
Tap a card on the left to start.
Question 1 of 1
Why do you not usually see the people who pick up the trash?
Something to do away from the screen. Nobody is checking.
Why: Once you start noticing them, you cannot stop, and that is a good habit to be stuck with.
Pointing out infrastructure work as you pass it — road work, trash collectors, a delivery being unloaded — makes the invisible visible, which is the whole lesson.
This is the beginning of understanding public goods, which the Prepare band takes up as tax and contribution. Starting concretely at five makes the abstract version land later.
Thanking people doing service jobs in front of your child teaches this in a way that talking about it does not.