Community Lesson Plans

Students become familiar with local community life by gathering information and designing booklets which become part of a bulletin board display about the community. Each student creates a slide to contribute to a class presentation about the community and participates in presenting the information to students from a different community.

Examine who makes up a classroom community and their goals. Your class will develop a project in which they connect with the community as a whole. They will also create a presentation based on the activity chosen.

Students are to define the consequences. They identify the consequences of juvenile crime on offenders, victims and the community. Students increase the responsibility to self, others and the community. They identify how Utah includes victims in the juvenile justice process.

An excellent lesson plan on members of a community awaits your first graders. Student pairs share about their mom and dad's job, then a class list is made. Next, an excellent PowerPoint on Community Helpers is shown. Learners then go to the computer lab, and utilize the program Insipiration to make a trading card depicting a community helper of their choice. The trading cards are printed and shared with the whole group back in the classroom.

Students explore attributes of the community in which they live. They compare rural, urban and suburban communities and attempt to classify their own community. Each group illustrates their assigned area by drawing buildings, trees, crops, houses, roads, etc. characteristic of the area, then presents their project to the class.

Learners create a map of a community with labels in a foreign language.  For this foreign language lesson, students write directions from one place to another in their map community.

The book, Doctor Ted is used to kick off this instructional activity on Community Helpers. Young learners make connections to their own life by dictating a story of their own, and inventing other jobs that Ted can do.  

Students research a new plant or animal species and create a trading card for a game. In this biotic community lesson, students learn new vocabulary that they use to research a species. They design a trading card and use it to play a game. They also work in groups to create a visual display about a biotic community.

Fifth graders become familiar with their community through and interview and research.  In this Community lesson plan, 5th graders design questions to help them find historical  events and current events in their community.  Students create a Wetpaint site to post their information.

Third graders discuss how a local community has changed over the years through interviews.  In this community lesson, 3rd graders interview people within their community and record how their community has changed. After summarizing their findings, studentspresent their information to the class.