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Worksheet
K12 Reader

Community Connections

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Who helps our community run smoothly? Read a short passage about community members and helpers. After kids finish the passage, they answer five short questions on the other side of the page.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Community and Me

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
First and second graders view art work, have group and class discussions, listen to stories, write themes, make notes, conduct interviews, graph results, chart findings, and plan a career day. These ambitious lessons should lead your...
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Assessment
Fluence Learning

Writing Informational Text: Community and School Gardens

For Students 2nd Standards
Two informational texts feature community gardens of the past and present and how seeds grow. Scholars read, discuss what they have read, complete a timeline, define words, and compose a brief essay about the texts' main idea.
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Activity
Teaching Tolerance

Community Bulletin Board

For Teachers K - 2nd
A project-based lesson has pupils create a bulletin board to share artwork, nonfiction articles, and messages based on social justice themes. The finished board is displayed in the community to create a place for discussion. 
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Welcome to My Community!

For Teachers K - 2nd
A "Welcome to Our Community" brochure culminates research into the people and places of interest in your community. Class members work alone or in pairs to gather information, illustrate, and write about various topics. Materials are...
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Unit Plan
Newspaper Association of America

Community Connections with Geography and the Newspaper

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
Understanding geography and government begins at the local level. Using maps and the parts of a newspaper, a unit plan introduces the concept of community. It starts with the creation of classroom and school maps, and then moves through...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Our Classroom is a Community: LEAGUE Philanthropy Lesson

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine the concept of community. In this philanthropy lesson, students consider how their classroom could be considered a community and discuss how they can be philanthropists in their own classroom.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Living in a Community

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students understand the differences in communities by reading "City Mouse, Country Mouse" by Isabelle Chantellard. In this types of communities lesson, students find that although communities are different, one is not better than the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Community Landmarks

For Students 2nd - 4th
For this community landmark worksheet, students write 2 activities that people do at each landmark. Students write activities for 10 landmarks.
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Lesson Plan
Community Social Studies Unit

Lesson 1 - Community Social Studies Unit

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Some problems are so big it takes an entire community to solve them. So was the case in the children's book Humphrey the Lost Whale: A True Story by Wendy Tokuda and Richard Hall. This primary grade lesson uses a class read-aloud of this...
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Unit Plan
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Around Town: Neighborhood and Community: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 3)

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Here is a unit designed to support English language development. Scholars speak, move, and write to learn more about topics that focus on community and local concepts. The series of lessons aids to reinforce concepts including consonant...
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Unit Plan
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Around Town: Neighborhood and Community: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 3)

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Neighborhood and community is the theme of a unit comprised of extra support lessons. Following practice pages and a teach, blend, guided practice, practice/apply routine, the series of lessons provide additional reinforcement of reading...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Our Community

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars explore their community. For this communities lesson, students write an interesting fact about the community on lined paper and add illustrations to their writing. Young scholars construct a class book by combining each...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What is a Community?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders write sentences in a graphic organizer about communities and what they include.  In this community lesson, 2nd graders will also draw a picture based on their description.  
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"CREATE YOUR OWN COMMUNITY"

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders, after spending several weeks developing skills necessary to become a "Community Development Team," create and build their vision of a community. Consideration is given for needs and wants, food, shelter, safety concerns,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

All About Groups And Community

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders examine the kinds of rules that different groups have. They work cooperatively in small groups to make rules for different groups and complete a worksheet imbedded in this plan. They have a greater understanding why rules...
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Unit Plan
New York City Department of Education

Grade 2 Literacy in Social Studies: Where Is Home?

For Teachers 2nd Standards
What makes a community? How communities differ? Young scholars research different types of communities, small rural towns, and large crowded cities. They respond to writing prompts, and write essays in groups to understand the wide...
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Worksheet
K12 Reader

What is Culture?

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
What makes up a society? Read a passage about culture and community and answer five reading comprehension questions.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

All About Groups & Community

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders examine the various kinds of groups in our communities and lives. They make charts and drawings of different groups and complete a worksheet imbedded in this plan. The groups are a true cooperative format, with each...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Service Project

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in a service project. In this community service lesson, students use their special talents to help others. Students draw or write about the service they've provided. The class turns this into a class book.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

People in My Community

For Students K - 3rd
In this community helpers worksheet, learners use the 16 words in the word bank to locate and identify them in the word search puzzle.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Daily Journal Topics: My Community

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this social studies worksheet, students study their community by keeping a journal of writing. Students color the cover picture and use the lined paper which has room for a picture for daily writing. There are 10 thought-provoking...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Traveling Community Journal Project

For Teachers K - 8th
Young scholars create an online "community journal". In this communities lesson, students use a writing template to send e-mail to various people to learn more about their community. The journal is passed from person to person.
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Printables
Kiz Club

Whose Hat?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Here is a wonderful supplemental activity that would go great with a unit or lesson on community helpers or community workers. Kids will color in each of the provided images and they put the images together in a book. The book is then...

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