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- 1st
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Students identify community workers and what tools they use by successfully completing a concentration game, matching community workers with a tool they use. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students identity at least one community helper and what that helper does to help their community. To start the lesson, ask students if they know what a community helper is. students role-play some of these jobs that their community helpers do. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students engage in a lesson which introduces the definition of a community and challenges them to explore the characteristics of their own community. This lesson uses the true story of Humphrey the Lost Whale as an illustration of how people come together as a community to help others. Full Review »
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- 4th - 8th
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Students examine why civic facilities are located where they are in their community. They collect and analyze data using primary and secondary sources, take a walking tour of their school and surrounding neighborhood, and summarize the information. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students explore career information. They access the six career clusters. Students relate their hobby and interests to a career that they might like to pursue. They culminate the unit with a job shadowing day with someone in the community. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 5th
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Students work together to complete their imaginary community map. Discussing transportation, they add these facilities after they discuss why and how people come to a new city. They identify what type of transportation is used in their community and why it is needed. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students are given the job of designing a new business card for the district's staff and faculty. Students cut out business-size cards and sketch several possibilities before deciding on a design. When a design is chosen, use QuarkXPress to produce a final piece for teacher evaluation. Their are several following lessons dealing with historical business communication devises. Full Review »
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- 10th - Higher Ed
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Students draw article cards, dividing the UDHR among participants. They read each article and explain its meaning. Students discuss the extent people in their community enjoy this right. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students take a bus tour to discover different businesses, schools, and other buildings located in the community. They then learn about the different types of technology that is used in the community. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 4th
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Students investigate the place of citizens in a society. They also research the way a court system works in conjunction with law enforcement. Students apply his/her understanding and knowledge of the law enforcement and court system when confronted with a realistic community situation. Full Review »
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