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- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students examine pictures of different community sites. Teacher reads ID cards for each. They discuss in small groups and as a class the importance of each place. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten
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Students examine and discuss paintings by the artist Paul Klee, focusing on the geometric shapes. They create pictures of their community using geometric shapes. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students examine how their community has changed over time and how that change was effected by local geographic features. Full Review »
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- 10th - 11th
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Students examine crime and fear of crime in the local community and how crime affects young people. They examine crime statistics and see how to make comparisons about national government policy on crime prevention and reduction. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 3rd
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Students recognize that people's needs are met in different ways. They take a field trip to gather information about services and facilities available in the community. They conduct interviews with community members and then construct thank you cards using Microsoft Pulisher. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students develop an examineing of everyday life in school and community and how things change over time. They analyze the role of various economic systems in the social, political, and economic development of societies. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students explore community helpers. They encounter fire fighters, police officers, mail carriers, and doctors. Students realize the importance of their jobs to our community. They access their different duties. Students participate in centers. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students use their observation skills to take notes on their community. In groups, first-graders explore their school community while second-graders explore the city community. Using the information, they use computers to create scrapbooks and pair up with a classmate from the different grade and compare their two communities. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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students' awareness is increased of the various cultural settlements within their own community and the reasons for the settlement patterns. Students will look at a map depicting the cultural settlements of their community and will describe the patterns they observe. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 8th
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Students recognize that exercises in physical education class can be used in the community. They view t-shirts collected from youth activity/fitness/sport organizations that are sewn together as a banner to show physical activity in the community. Full Review »

