Our community services

Duration: 0:12:37

Genre: Children's | Educational | Public affairs | Social guidance

Year Published: 1969

Creator: Encyclopaedia Britannica Educ Corp: Distributor | Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor | Lane Education Service District: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Dramatizes, through the involvement of two primary-age children, the importance of various public services. Shows the contribution of police, fire department, hospital, schools, city council, and others as the result of an accident to a friend of the children and shows also the resulting efforts to obtain playground facilities. Relates the children's discovery of having to pay sales tax when they buy a gift to the problem of getting money for a park., Dramatizes, through the involvement of two primary-age children, the importance of various public services. Shows the contribution of police, fire department, hospital, schools, city council, and others as the result of an accident to a friend of the children and shows also the resulting efforts to obtain playground facilities. Relates the children's discovery of having to pay sales tax when they buy a gift to the problem of getting money for a park.

Complete Record: , Uses a story about a boy who is hit by a motorcycle to demonstrate many public services, such as police and fire departments. Discusses how these services are paid by everyone through taxes., Dramatizes, through the involvement of two primary-age children, the importance of various public services. Shows the contribution of police, fire department, hospital, schools, city council, and others as the result of an accident to a friend of the children and shows also the resulting efforts to obtain playground facilities. Relates the children's discovery of having to pay sales tax when they buy a gift to the problem of getting money for a park.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.