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Paid vs Unpaid Work

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Paid vs Unpaid Work

Community helpers illustration

🎯 WALT (We Are Learning To):

• Identify different roles people have in our community

• Tell the difference between paid and unpaid work

• Understand why all community roles are important

👥 Part 1: Community Roles Matching

1. Match each picture to the correct word. Draw a line to connect them.
🚒 Picture of firefighter
👩‍🏫 Picture of teacher
🤝 Picture of volunteer
👮‍♂️ Picture of police officer
Teacher
Volunteer
Police Officer
Firefighter
2. Circle if the job is PAID or UNPAID work:

Teacher: PAID / UNPAID

Volunteer at food bank: PAID / UNPAID

Doctor: PAID / UNPAID

Parent helping at school: PAID / UNPAID

3. Tick the boxes next to jobs that help our community:

Police officer

Librarian

Volunteer coach

Nurse

✏️ Part 2: Think and Write

4. Complete this sentence:

A community helper I know is _________________ and they help by _________________.

5. Draw a picture of someone doing unpaid work in your community:
6. Why do you think unpaid work is important? Use these sentence starters to help:

Unpaid workers help because...

Without volunteers, our community would...

I think unpaid work is important because...

7. Extension Challenge: Name three ways you could help your community without being paid:

1. _________________________________

2. _________________________________

3. _________________________________

8. Circle how you feel about learning about community helpers today:

😊 Happy 😐 Okay 😕 Confused 🤔 Want to learn more

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