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,...

Enable students to use the blues to explore urbanization, technology, and their effects on everyday life in the 20th century. Musicians were among the large number of people who, between 1914 and 1945, participated in the Great Migration...

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

Students explore different kinds of communities as well as identifying and discussing the attributes of their own neighborhood. They make choices about what kinds of shapes best create the look of the type of community they wish to...