Work (human activity)

High school (ages 12+)
People & Society

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/work-human-activity

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the socio-economic impact?Drives economic growth, innovation, societal structure, and individual identity
2. What is the current dynamics?Shaped by automation, AI, globalization, and the rise of flexible work arrangements
3. What is work and why do grown‑ups do it?Work is purposeful activity that makes goods or gives services. Grown‑ups do it to help people and build the things we need.
4. How did work change from the time people first lived?Early people hunted, gathered, and made simple tools. Later they grew crops, made tools, and built homes, so work became more specialized.

Subsistence Economy: An economic system where goods and services are produced for immediate consumption by the producers.
Division of Labor: The separation of a work process into a number of distinct tasks performed by different people or machines.
Gig Economy: A labor market characterized by the prevalence of short-term contracts or freelance work, as opposed to permanent jobs.