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What Makes Our Community Special?

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Explore websites, complete research, and use technological tools to create a final multimedia presentation on what makes a community special. Learners of all ages work with a partner to research an interesting aspect of their community, focusing on concrete details and facts. Then they construct a final project based on the chosen feature and use a variety of technology tools.

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informative writing, explanatory writing, communities

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Community, community awareness, community document, electronic presentation, Expository Writing, explanatory writing, informative writing, multimedia presentation, evidence, english language arts
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3rd - 12th
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English Language Arts
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