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.

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?