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This community based Inquiry takes students on a tour of their neighbourhood to look at community resources and to think about why places are important to people. It involves Social Decision Making and constructing a Box City. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students analyze the way that the media views the community that they live in. They poll residents about the strengths and weaknesses of their community and devise ways such as community service projects that they can improve the image of their community. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students identify heroes in their local community. They discover that most heroes are ordinary people. They read a children's book of heroes together and discover what philanthropy is. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 3rd
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Students research issues within their own community. They work together to try to solve the issues and to create a stronger sense of community. They listen to a local reporter as they speak to the class and ask questions. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Student collaboratively gather and present information that identifies individuals in the community. They share and compare their information with the other groups of students. They participate in a guided walk through the community, community photographs, community directory information, and the Internet, along with various other sources. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students examine the different relationships within communities. They discover the need for rules and organization. They identify their role in the local community as well. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students investigate all the ingredients that make up a community. They study their local community history. Students also study the components of a map and locate places. They access the rules and laws that a community and the process of making them. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students explore important places and their own role in their community. They take photos of their own houses, listen to a guest speaker, take field trips to a fire station, public library, and historical landmarks, write a poem, and create a class bulletin board. Full Review »
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- 1st - 3rd
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Students create a page for a class book titled, "Our Community." Each page features an interesting fact about the community. They then add illustrations in the space below the lines on the paper provided. Full Review »
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- 1st - 2nd
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Students define the term community. They list many, varied, and unusual jobs (careers) that people might have in our Communities. Students identify the purpose of the work done by their parents-either in the home, or outside of the home. They are aware of and appreciate many different jobs that make a successful community. Full Review »

