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My Neighborhood: A Webquest

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students engage in a Webquest to discover their school and community. They interview staff members of the school, create maps and take digital photographs of the school. As they write about their school, they use Microsoft Word to...
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Our Little Town

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students draw a map of their local community using a drawing program. Using the internet, they locate various landmarks and identify famous people living or coming from their town. They participate in interviews with the community...
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Glad to Meet You, Newfane

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students brainstorm a list of important community locations or buildings. We take pictures of inside and outside and include the history of each. They describe the service or product it provides, the date originated, etc. They build a...
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Philanthro What?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discuss what it means to be a philanthropist and how important philanthropists are to the community. They discuss the tradition involved in philanthropy and create a show and tell "Philanthropy Teaching Quilt" using the various...
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America's Civil Rights Movement, Activity Ten

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students identify a wrong in their own community and act to correct it. They reflect on the intersection fo the Civil Rights Movemnet with a social justice project.
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Keeping and Creating American Communities

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students study a community hundreds of miles away. They attempt to accurately reflect teh myriad rections and experiences of Atlanta and its people as the events unfoled.
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Writing to Focus Reading and to Imagine Researching

For Teachers 3rd - Higher Ed
Students examine several elements that would cue them into a newspaper article about community change without reading the main copy text. They discuss the details and write notes about the article. They first skim and then thoroughly...
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Who's Town is This, Anyway?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders work in cooperative groups to simulate a town government as they consider an important change in their community growth. They analyze a real problem in the community and then determine their goals to fix it and make a...
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Changes Close To Home

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils interview the senior citizens in their community. While interviewing them, they identify perceptions they have about the local climate. Using the internet, the compare the results of the interview to those of public thirty year...
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Mapping in Words

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students create maps to describe the Wabanaki's relationship with their environment. They discuss the names the Wabanaki people gave to areas of land and water. They review a map of their community to discuss the names of towns and their...
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Hmong Among Us

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners examine the Hmong community in Minnesota, then research and write case studies on refugee communities from the top ten countries with approved applications to the U.S. They write first-person stories from the perspective of...
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Episode # 158A

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students research the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and determine how they can contribute to community projects.
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Texture Towns

For Teachers K - 4th
Learners explore different kinds of communities as well as identifying and discussing the attributes of their own neighborhood. They make choices about what kinds of shapes best create the look of the type of community they wish to...
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A Web of Workers

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Pupils create webs, emphasizing interdependence of workers and products in the community.
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Individual Responsibility--Inaction Is Action

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students view a video that explores the impact an individual can have on a community. They consider the consequences of acting or not acting on their own convictions and participate in a class discussion to share their observations.
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Mapping the Local Community

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students review the symbols and legends of a map. In groups, they follow a set of directions to create a map showing the route to a specific place. They present their map to the class and review the basic components of a community.
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Lesson 6-Needs and Wants in My Town

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders, utilizing the book "My Town," create a list of features that perhaps help people to meet their basic needs and wants in a community. They also define a local community in their own words. In addition, they brainstorm...
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Planning a Healthy City

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders create a scaled model city. They create a blueprint that provides for the economic and cultural needs of a community. They identify where essential elements of the city should be located and explain the rationale for the...
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Tour of the Town of Andrews

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders describe local services being provided on a tour of their town. During community-based instruction, they visit several local government buildings. Upon their return, 3rd graders document in their journals, the services...
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Mass Transit

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Pupils explore the world of mass transit and how it affects their community as well as how it attempts to reduce our pollution mass. Included as well are the environmental and social factors relating to mass transit. They read and...
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Linked Together: One Day

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students understand the rights and responsibilities of belonging to a community.In this citizenship lesson, students illustrate eight citizen rights and share them. Students define the meanings of nationality and responsibility.
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Diversity/Journalism - Book Making

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore Canadian culture by creating a book. In this community analysis lesson, 3rd graders identify the First Nations people of Canada and discuss the culture, language and diversity. Students create a book discussing...
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Applying Principles of Civic Liberty

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders relate the everyday duties in the classroom and in the community. For this character education lesson, 3rd graders compare duties in the classroom to duties in the community and chart them on a Venn diagram. Students...
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Sharing Our Surplus Stash: A Trick-Or-Treat Twist

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students give the gift of candy to community members. For this citizenship and giving lesson, students read Franklin's Halloween and discuss why the main characters give away part of their Halloween candy. Students brainstorm who in...

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