Students create a map of the school and surrounding neighborhood.  In this mapping lesson, students discover their school's location and learn about its past.  Students use math skills and the steps in the design process to...

Students explore the functions of cities by creating a visual image of their own neighborhood. Students diagram, list, and label the major businesses and cultural areas of the neighborhood where they grew up, then write a letter to a...

Students explore the different aspects of Korean culture. In this geography activity, students prepare different Korean dishes in the classroom. They create a visual display of things they learned about Korean culture.

Students become familiar with the concepts of community and neighborhood and what buildings are associated with these. In this neighborhood instructional activity, students tour the neighborhood as a class, observing and taking photos of...

Ninth graders explore the culture of the neighborhood.  In this Social Studies lesson, 9th graders examine the different development sites in their community.  Students research the zoning regulations. 

Students identify how their school has changed. In this local community lesson, students listen to a brief history of their town and school and interview someone that graduated from their school. Students then create a map of their...

Students investigate the idea of community by taking a field trip.  For this civics lesson, students participate in a supervised walk around their neighborhood while identifying characteristics and objects that make their home town...

In this Google Earth worksheet, students access the Google Earth website and find the latitude, longitude, and elevation for their house and school. Then they do the same for a variety of world locations. This worksheet has 10 fill in...

Students practice locating points on a large wall grid and create and label a neighborhood map. In this geography lesson plan, students spell and discuss places as the teacher places them on the map. They discuss the concept of an...

Students engage in a lesson about the community in order to find out what different things go on within it on a daily basis. They conduct field research and look up information in order to answer some key questions addressed.

Students do many activities and study one of Todd Hido's photographs to investigate composition and a sense of place.

Students are introduced to simple maps and view a map of a classroom and compare distances of items shown.

In the world of GPS, make sure your kids can still read maps and determine distances between locations. You will need neighborhood street maps, ideally of your class' home turf. Ask kids questions about different locations in relation to...

First graders use literature, maps, and globes to explain how physical environments in various parts of the world are similar to and different from one's own, and that certain areas have common characteristics and can be called regions.

Young scholars focus on the origins of the families that make up their community by exploring their family's origins through themselves, parents, and grandparents. Students create a map marked with family origins for the class.

Students walk and accumulate miles in a simulated "walk" around the eighty-eight counties of Ohio. Each class logs an average of twenty miles a week, hanging up a picture of a historic Ohio landmark to represent the different counties...

Students explore structures in a big city.  In this big city lesson plan, students become familiar with vocabulary about big cities through songs graphs, and hands-on art. Students practice phonic sound /M/.