Box Town - Students use recycled materials to build town buildings and trees. Illustrated directions are provided source
Community - A collection of lesson plans for teaching about the community. Students simulate an assembly line, create brochures, and interview a guest speaker source
Community Hardships - A lesson plan that guides students in understanding that the environment can create hardships that unite the community. Printable scenarios for discussion are provided source
Folded Paper Houses - Printable patterns and directions for making a paper house, or a paper community. This page also includes a pattern for a store source
Helping Your Community - A guide for helping your students develop an action plan for making a difference in their own communities source
How Communities are Different - A lesson plan that uses poetry and a story to illustrate the differences among communities. Students create a Venn Diagram source
Map of Your Community - A lesson plan that integrates art and cartography. Students create a map of the community source
Mapping Your Neighborhood - Students use atlases, maps, and Web resources to generate and examine maps of their own neighborhoods source
More or Less - Students use pictures to identify things their community needs more or less of. Designed for secondary students, but adaptable source
Neighborhood - A collection of activity ideas, literature suggestions, songs, and crafts for learning about neighborhoods source
Picture a Business - Children create helpful books about local businesses to showwhat resources are available to their community source
Safety Signs - Students make a class chart of neighborhood safety signs. Printable safety signs included source
Signs and Symbols - Students learn about the meanings of signs and synbols in their communities through observing signs, dicussing their meanings, and creating a cartoon source
The City - A thematic unit for teaching the characteristics of a city. Students talk to an alien, make a collage, and simulate a city council meeting source
Using Your Community as a Learning Resource - Activities is for teachers and parents to use with their students and children to encourage the study of their community and to teach them how they can become involved citizens source
Where do you live? - Students build a model community out of recycled cereal boxes and other art materials source
Where I Live - Students make collages representing the features of their neighborhoods source
