Our Town

Pupils explore brochure writing. They work in groups to brainstorm and categorize important places in their community. In addition, they gather information from the Internet, take pictures using a digital camera, and create a community...

Play an active role in city government with a lesson that brings a town meeting to the classroom. Scholars take on positions of city officials to discuss and find solutions for the issues pertinent to their community.

Our town is a very, very fine town. Kids craft a short paragraph about their town, its size, location, interesting features, and climate. The template even provides room for pictures or illustrations.

In this brochure worksheet, students create an illustrated brochure for information about their town. Students insert photos and write about town facts, dates and events, the parks and attractions, and any relevant number to know.

In this social studies worksheet, students are directed to a Web site to find out what makes our Nation special. Kids create an acrostic poem about our country. Students then explore the need for responsible living within a community by...

Students purchase items in their classroom store. In this money lesson students create a classroom store. The students have a given amount of money and have to decide if they have enough to purchase the items that they would like to.

Learners discuss how a specific economic activity in a region can facilitate the creation of towns, which often turn into ghost towns if the economic activity ends.

Students research battles in and around their hometown area during the Civil War and examine effects of the war on people in the local community or area; students create PowerPoint presentations displaying their results.

Learners study the effects of the Civil War in the student's local community or area and to study how the people were affected. They compose a paper compiling results of their research. They prepare PowerPoint presentations.

Learners conduct an interview with a town resident, asking them to describe the history, use, and their memories of a river common to their community. They create a drawing of the river using information from the interview, and write...