Communities depend on one another — Civics, 4–6
A community is connected to other places through food, messages, travel and shared work. Civics, 4–6 years.
Connected communities
Your community does not do everything by itself. Food, books, clothes, letters and tools may travel from other places, while people here make, grow or send things that others need.
Why connect?
No single place has every material, skill or kind of work. Connections let people share what they can do and receive what they cannot make nearby, so a problem in one place can matter to another.
Follow a loaf of bread
Start with a loaf on the breakfast table. Wheat may have grown in one place, flour may have been made in another, and the loaf baked nearby. A driver, a shop worker and your family each connect places by helping it reach you.
It did not come from nowhere
You may think an object belongs only to the shop or home where you see it. That is a reasonable thought because its earlier journey is hidden, but many people and places helped make, move or repair it before it reached you.
Notice the links
When you eat fruit, open a parcel or borrow a book, ask where it came from and who helped it arrive. This can lead to real choices, such as wasting less food or thanking people whose work is usually unseen.
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