Chapter 6.1
Essential Services: Keeping Your Community Safe Every Day
You will discover the important services like electricity, public transit, and garbage collection that your community depends on every single day to stay safe and healthy.
What You'll Learn
You learn that essential services keep communities safe every day.
You discover how electricity and hydro companies power your home.
You explore garbage collection, transit, and road maintenance services.
You connect essential services to community needs and infrastructure topics.
What You'll Practice
1
You will identify essential services and explain their roles in communities.
2
You will answer questions about electricity, hydro workers, and power outages.
3
You will practice matching transit, garbage, and road services to workers.
Why This Matters
Understanding essential services helps you recognize how your community stays safe, healthy, and connected every single day.
This Unit Includes
Practice exercises
Learning resources
Skills
Essential Services
Public Transit
Electricity
Infrastructure
Community Needs
NS Curriculum Aligned
