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- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students create a list of different types of cities in Asia and compare and analyze those cities. They identify characteristics of cities and analyze the influence of geography on urban development. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students examine the features that are important when choosing a place to live. They identify how urban areas are classified, complete an online survey, analyze the results of the survey, and contribute a picture card to a class bulletin board. Full Review »
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- 9th - 11th
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Students develop a realization of urban water pollution problems. They recognize cause and effect relationships of urban water pollution problems. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students analyze the different ways that photography helps historians understand the lives of people who lived in the past. They examine images from Russell Lee's photo essay and discuss how Texas' has changed from an agrarian to an urban society. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 3rd
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Students examine the similarities and differences between rural, suburban, and urban communities. They read about type of community in their social studies textbook, analyze the differences between Tokyo and Chicago, and complete a chart with the different classifications. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students are able to analyze how a variety of cities both in the USA and abroad have worked to improve human health and environment. They combine their prior knowledge of previous lessons and apply that knowledge to compare how each city is trying to create what urban planners today call "sustainable cities." Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 10th - 12th
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Students read about some of the ways that the city of Calgary has responded to urban growth. They determine that seemingly simple decisions about how to curtail growth are, in fact, quite challenging. They critique and propose some possible solutions to the problem of urban growth in Calgary. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten
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Students explore the artwork of Romare Bearden through a PowerPoint presentation. They discuss settings such as rural, urban, and suburban. Students create a collage with an urban or rural setting. They discuss the differences in the settings. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd
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Students study and compare rural, suburban, and urban communities. They play a board game, read books about communities, and complete several other activities regarding the different types of communities. Several extension and family activities are included in this lesson. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students compare and contrast the characteristics of suburban, rural, and urban communities and identify the characteristics of their own community. They list what they saw on the way to school, create a collage about their own community using magazine pictures, and complete a worksheet. Full Review »
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