Exploring Our Community Schools

Help youngsters identify who around them has power and authority as part of a general discussion about local environment and community.

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.

Encourage class members to get involved in their community with a instructional activity that highlights the benefits of helping others. Through grand conversation and a visual aid that sheds light on the interconnectedness within...

Whether at home or in the classroom, each member of a community has certain responsibilities they must tend to. With the help of the children's story Piggybook by Anthony Browne, kids learn how to assign jobs in a fair and safe manner...

Foster contributing members of society with a social studies unit focused on five aspects of community. First graders discuss themes of culture, groups, location, scarcity, and change with discussion questions and activities about...

Research the characteristics of leaders who have used nonviolence to change society. The class then applies this information to their own community to find leaders with these same characteristics, creating a wall collage of pictures and...

What is a community? Find out with a lesson that sheds light onto the different types of communities—school, local, and global. Scholars read informational text detailing the life of a young girl from Cape Verde and take part in a...

Students talk about and grow in their understanding of the important role our troops play, and the important role citizens play in keeping up our troops' morale. They involve themselves in community service by writing letters for, or...

Students explore their community. In this communities lesson plan, students write an interesting fact about the community on lined paper and add illustrations to their writing. Students construct a class book by combining each page of...

Students explore how communities participate in census counting. For this census lesson, students recognize the absolute and relative location of a state and understand ideas about civic life and government.