Urban or Rural

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Urban or Rural?

• A look at where we live.

Charmaine Brooks Albert Education
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Urban or Rural?

• This is rural. How do you know?

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Urban or Rural?

• This is urban. How can you tell?

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Urban or Rural?

• This is the view from Mrs. Mortons front porch.
  

• If you said RURAL you are right!

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Urban or Rural?

• This is rural Alberta.

• Do you live in rural Alberta?

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Urban or Rural?

• This is urban Alberta.
• Do you live in urban Alberta?

• What city do you live in?

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This is Elmo. He is a house cat.

• He is an URBAN pet.

• He stays in the house.

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Midnight and Fluffy are farm cats.

• They do not live in the house.

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This is Duke.

• He is a RURAL pet.

• He stays outside.

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Rural pets have houses, too.

• It keeps him warm on cold winter nights.

• Can you see the house that Duke sleeps in?

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Garbage, garbage everywhere!

• What do you do with garbage in an urban area?

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In a rural area, people put their garbage in a
garbage can, too.

• Then they burn it. This is called a burning
  barrel.

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This is a Blue Box. What do you put in a Blue
Box?

• In an urban area, the garbage man takes the
  recycling items away.

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In rural areas, people recycle, too.

• Mrs. Morton collects cans and bottles in the
  basement.

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Then she drives them to a recycling center in an
urban area.

• Have you seen these bins before?

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What kind of building is this?

• Is this urban or rural or both?

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It is hard to drive a tractor to the gas station!

• In rural areas, farmers have their own gas
  stations.

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What is this?

• What goes in a mailbox?

• How does the mail get into your mailbox?

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What is this?

• This is a rural mailbox.

• The mailman drives the mail to the box. He picks
  up our outgoing mail, too!

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The red box is for the newspaper.

• The paperboy drives a car to deliver the paper.
  He has biscuits in his car for Duke. Do you know
  why?

• Notice the blue sign. It is our rural address.

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Urban or Rural?

• Where do you live?