Community and roles
Recognise the jobs people do and how a community depends on people working together.
Social Studies · Activity guide
Social studies practice for understanding people and communities.
Children start to notice who helps their community, why rules exist and how everyday life has changed over time. Use these ideas for conversation or practice, then try the separate demo or printable below.
No account or card. This is a mixed ten-question demo; signed-in learning starts from the choices on your child’s Home.
Ideas to explore
From naming a helper to explaining why a rule exists
These are general activity ideas, not a complete course or a list of activities available to every child after sign-in. The age and grade guides are approximate.
Rules and fairness
Understand why rules exist and think through a fair way to settle a disagreement.
Then and now
Compare how people used to do something with how it is usually done today, and put events in order.
After the demo
Choose from what is available for your child.
After sign-in, your child’s Home shows the learning goals currently available for their age and level. The demo and printable in this guide are separate ways to try an activity. Practice collections chosen with a parent are separate; these record practice, not independent learning progress.
- Choose 5, 10 or 15 questions for practice
- Teaching has separate steps where offered
- Parent reports distinguish practice from independent progress
More activity ideas
Questions about people, rules and time
- Community: Which job helps make sure sick people get better — a doctor, a baker, an actor or a farmer?
- Timeline: Put these in the order they were invented, oldest first: the telephone, the wheel, the printing press.
- Fairness: A class is split evenly on which pet to choose. What is a fair next step?
Free Print & Play sheet
Where Should the New Well Go?
Children aged roughly 9–10 rule out sites that break a distance rule, weigh distance against ground type, and defend their choice with two numbers — a small taste of community decision-making. One A4 page, black and white, with no sign-in.
Try the public demo
Ten demo questions, then a stopping point.
Start at the age-9 level to see social studies and other age-aware subjects in the public demo.