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- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 2nd
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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. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students identify nonprofit organizations within their local community. They practice using the yellow pages to locate these organizations. They use an organizer to keep all of the information they gathered organized. Full Review »
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- 4th - 8th
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Students research Los Angeles and its surrounding communities. They create digital presentations of the information they have gathered by answering the question included in the lesson. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 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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- 3rd
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Students describe the physical and human geography of Los Angeles. Using the internet, they identify and locate features around the Adams region that have changed in the past 70 years. They use resources found in their school to discover the history of their community. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 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 »
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