My Municipality<\/p>\n
How do municipalities influence communities? What are\u00a0some of the issues and challenges associated with balancing\u00a0human needs\/wants and environmental stewardship? How\u00a0have people responded to the challenges and opportunities\u00a0presented by the physical environment in your community?\u00a0What actions would you take to improve your community?<\/p>\n
Municipalities are responsible for meeting their communities\u2019\u00a0needs and fulfilling duties, such as delivering local services and\u00a0managing the growth and well-being of the community.<\/p>\n
As an introduction to the topic, students will discuss what they\u00a0know about their municipality and reflect on what they like\u00a0about it and what makes it unique. As a class, students review\u00a0the features and services of municipalities in Ontario, and\u00a0investigate specific information of their own city, town, village\u00a0or township. Afterwards, students will complete one activity\u00a0dedicated to either assessing environmental stewardship,\u00a0developing a plan of action to improve their community or\u00a0evaluating developments due to the physical environment.\u00a0In the Consolidation activity, students reflect on why it is\u00a0important to take an active role in their community.<\/p>\n
We are learning to:<\/p>\n
I CAN\u2026<\/p>\n
Social Studies Gr. 4<\/em> B2, B2.1, B2.5\u00a0 Gr. 5 B1, B1.1, B1.2 Ask students if they know the name of their city\/town\/village\/township and invite them to share any background knowledge, as well as thoughts and opinions. Questions to\u00a0prompt discussion:<\/p>\n 1. Use the \u2018Municipalities in Ontario<\/a>\u2019 video (2:46 min)\u00a0and accompanying slide deck<\/a> to discuss the features,\u00a0responsibilities and composition of municipalities in the\u00a0province.<\/p>\n 2. As a class and\/or in groups, review the following\u00a0information using your municipality\u2019s website and other local\u00a0sources. Have students fill out Activity 5.1<\/a>.<\/p>\n GRADE 8<\/strong><\/p>\n Alternative Activity:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Field trip – Community walk<\/em><\/p>\n What does a community need? What does your community\/ municipality have? Does your community have schools, a\u00a0library, a grocery store, parks, houses, emergency services,\u00a0transportation and businesses? Let\u2019s go find out!<\/p>\n Take the class out for a walk to discover what you can see\u00a0in your neighbourhood. Prepare for the walk by looking at\u00a0the list of municipal responsibilities and have students use\u00a0Activity 5.4<\/a> to write down things they see on the walk that\u00a0relate to these areas.<\/p>\n Have a brief closing discussion about your municipality or ask\u00a0students to write a reflection on one or more of the following\u00a0questions based on which activities were completed.<\/p>\n Title My Municipality Guiding Questions How do municipalities influence communities? What are\u00a0some of the issues and challenges associated with balancing\u00a0human needs\/wants and environmental stewardship? How\u00a0have people responded to the challenges and opportunities\u00a0presented by the physical environment in your community?\u00a0What actions would you take to improve your community? OVERVIEW Municipalities are responsible for meeting their communities\u2019\u00a0needs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elementary-lessons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civix.ca\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civix.ca\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civix.ca\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civix.ca\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civix.ca\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/civix.ca\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1217,"href":"https:\/\/civix.ca\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/1217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civix.ca\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civix.ca\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civix.ca\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civix.ca\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nGeography Gr. 7<\/em> A1, A1.1, A1.2\u00a0 Gr. 8 A1, A1.3
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