Explore
When you are conducting an investigation, you can use the following techniques to ask questions:
For examples:
- KWL (what they know, what they want to know and what they have learned)
- Five W’s + H (who, what, when, where, how and why)
For examples:
- Do you think a class is a group? Why or why not?
- Do you think a class is a community? Why or why not?
- What is the difference between a group and a community
Skill Building
Take a look at your community.
Now watch the video of ‘The Boy who cried Wolf'
Now watch the video of ‘The Boy who cried Wolf'
Is the village a community?
How would you know what a community would look like?
Are you part of your local community?
What makes a community?
How would you know what a community would look like?
Are you part of your local community?
What makes a community?
In her memoir, A City Year, Suzanne Goldsmith offers her own definition of the word community:
"Communities are not built of friends, or of groups with similar styles and tastes, or even of people who like and understand each other. They are built of people who feel they are part of something that is bigger than themselves: a shared goal or enterprise, like righting a wrong, or building a road, or raising children, or living honourably, or worshipping a god. To build community requires only the ability to see value in others, to look at them and see a potential partner in one’s enterprise."
Do you agree that Communities should only include people who are friends and who like each other?
"Communities are not built of friends, or of groups with similar styles and tastes, or even of people who like and understand each other. They are built of people who feel they are part of something that is bigger than themselves: a shared goal or enterprise, like righting a wrong, or building a road, or raising children, or living honourably, or worshipping a god. To build community requires only the ability to see value in others, to look at them and see a potential partner in one’s enterprise."
Do you agree that Communities should only include people who are friends and who like each other?