Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Economic Incentives in Our Community

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will identify positive and negative economic incentives used in their communities to encourage people to make CHOICES beneficial to the community. Students will recognize that not all incentives convince all people since people...
Lesson Plan
Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Who Is in Your Online Community?

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] By learning the Rings of Responsibility, 2nd graders explore how the Internet connects us to people in our community and throughout the world. Help students to think critically about the different ways...
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Meet the People in Your Neighborhood

For Teachers 1st
Recognize the different occupations, and their roles, within the community.
Website
Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Survival of a People: Using Our Natural Resources 1875 19

For Students 9th - 10th
The struggle of communities to inhabit small islands off the coast of Nova Scotia is profiled. Weather and poor land challenged the people but as transportation and communication expanded, the isolation and life style of the islanders...
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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Community: This Is My Town

For Students K - 1st
Learn about all the things a small town has to offer to people who live or visit there. Includes audio narration in 20 additional languages with text in English.
Lesson Plan
Cynthia J. O'Hora

Mrs. O's House: Health Community Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Use these resources and create a project identifying an issue with the health of people in the community and working out actions that could be taken to reduce the problem.
Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Adventures in Math: Lesson 5: Make a Difference

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
How can sharing with others improve our community and the lives of people throughout the world? In this lesson, students will attempt to entice others to support a charity of their choice.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Power to the People

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students read and evaluate descriptions of how people live "off the grid" using solar power and come to understand better the degree to which that lifestyle is or is not truly independent of technological, economic and cultural...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Providers: Community Screening Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
This Guide is intended to assist facilitators to use the film as a starting point to address the healthcare crisis in rural communities across America. As our nation's demographics become more urban, rural populations are aging, have...
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: A Community of People

For Teachers K
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text explaining the meaning of the word "community." A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Center For Civic Education

Center for Civic Education: What Responsibilities Accompany Our Rights?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Suppose the government does everything it can to protect people's rights. Is this enough? Will their rights be protected? Do we have any responsibility to protect not only our own rights, but each other's as well? This lesson looks at...
Activity
Live Wire Media

Good Character: Caring

For Students 9th - 10th
An online guide to accompany a video in the "In Search of Character," series, this website includes a definition of "Caring," discussion questions, writing prompts, and activity ideas. Good ideas for discussing how we care about other...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Whose Streets?: Lesson Plan Clips

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson provides a framework for critical analysis of current and historic race relations in America through the lens of the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown, Jr., a young unarmed black man, by white police officer Darren Wilson in...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Getting to Know You

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The students will go on an in-school scavenger hunt to get to know the many kinds of people that make up an elementary school community. They will work in small groups and use digital cameras to take pictures of the workers they find. By...
Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Environment

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Through 10 lessons and more than 20 hands-on activities, students are introduced to the concept of an environment and the many interactions within it. As they learn about natural and human-made environments, as well as renewable and...
Activity
Library of Congress

Loc: Local Legacies

For Students 9th - 10th
Experience America through its grassroots! Diverse populations lend cultural colorfulness to our country. Read about an International Food Fair in California, Annie Oakley Days in Ohio, and Wabanaki Basketry in Maine. Click on your...
Professional Doc
Childnet

Childnet: Online Safety: Educators Pack for Online Safety Awareness

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The internet provides educators with a great tool for teaching young people, communicating with others, and sharing successes with the wider community. In order to make the most out social media, technology and the internet, we have put...