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- Grade Range
- 1st - 2nd
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Students consider community members who are helpers: police office, postal worker, nurse etc. students brainstorm what these people do and how they might look and then create an illustration using geometric shapes and add text to describe their person. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students examine the role and impact of nonprofit organizations within their community and prepare to interview representatives. They identify and develop questions to ask representatives of local nonprofit organizations. Students must arrange for representatives to come into their classrooms for the interviews. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students identify the differences between common good and community capital. They discover their responsibility to contribute to the greater good. They write a letter and design a poster to promote their ideas. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students examine positive and negative economic incentives used in their communities. They recognize that incentives encourage people to make choices and analyze several examples. Then they discuss how different people react differently to an incentive. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students work in pairs to find people in their school who have certain jobs and then discuss how these people are part of their community. They also do other activities to discover what a community is. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st
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Students investigate the roles of community helpers. They decide which community helper they think is the most helpful and why. They create a slideshow presentation of community helpers including a Wordart title. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st
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Students study the differences that lie within each community and their geographical make-up. They research and discuss the millions of similarities among different ethnic cultures within our community. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students discuss concept of community, describe what a community is and what roles people have in a community. Students then reflect on their roles as classroom community members and members of their home communities. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students study and discuss "community." As a class they decide on which type of community they might like to create in model form. Then in small groups, they construct each section of the community. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 10th - 12th
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Students use digital cameras to document their community through the use of photographs, artwork and writing. They create a community tribute book that includes essays, artwork and pictures. Afterwards, they debate the benefits and challenges of growing up in cokmmunitythe early 21st century. Full Review »
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