Overview

Grade 3 Social Studies

Communities and Environment

Community Growth

6. Infrastructure

6.1 Essential Services

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

You will identify essential services and explain their roles in communities.

You will answer questions about electricity, hydro workers, and power outages.

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

1 Video lesson

Practice exercises

Learning resources

Skills

Essential Services

Public Transit

Electricity

Infrastructure

Community Needs

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