Rules and Law
- Rules are a group of principles about how people should behave or what they should do around different areas
- Rules might be made obvious or not
- Laws are the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes
- If laws are not kept to, members of the community might receive penalties or punishments
More Videos and Activities
Find out more about rules and laws by using the videos and activities in the sections below. Activities in green are more basic (level 1) and blue are more advanced (level 2) in subject matter and/or language.
How Laws are Made
How Offenders are Sentenced
Drink Driving
Discussion questions
- What rules are there in your school?
- What rules are there in your house?
- What rules or laws would you like to add that aren’t laws or rules already?
Extension question
Do you think a community could survive without rules or laws? Why/why not?