Chapter 13.1
Discover the Types of Jobs That Keep Your Community Running
You will explore the many jobs people do in communities and learn how every worker from firefighters to librarians uses special skills to help the people around them.
What You'll Learn
You will learn how community workers help meet important daily needs.
You can sort jobs into goods-producing and service job categories.
You will discover key workers like nurses, firefighters, and librarians.
You will understand why communities need many different skilled workers.
What You'll Practice
1
You will identify the main jobs of specific community workers.
2
You will match workers to the services they provide every day.
3
You will practice sorting jobs into goods and service categories.
Why This Matters
Understanding types of jobs helps you recognize how every community worker uses special skills to meet the needs of the people around you every day.
This Unit Includes
Practice exercises
Learning resources
Skills
Community Workers
Goods and Services
Service Jobs
Essential Services
Types of Work
NS Curriculum Aligned
