Students explore the three kinds of communities — urban, suburban, and rural — and discover how where people live shapes their homes, jobs, and everyday lives.
Students will be able to…
Some kids live in tall city apartments, some in houses with yards, and some on wide-open farms. What makes each kind of community different?
Project this and tap each community type. Have students record what the homes, buildings, and transportation look like in each one.
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Three photos: a city, a suburb, a farm. How do they differ?
Students investigate the Community Explorer.
Students analyze the differences.
Students conclude about their own.
Students represent a community.
Aligned to the C3 Framework for Social Studies and Common Core literacy in social studies.
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Use information gained from illustrations and words to demonstrate understanding of a text.
Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.
Have students draw a map of their own community and label whether it is urban, suburban, or rural, with three features that prove it. A printable community-map sheet is in the Social Studies library.
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A print-and-go review sheet with a built-in answer key. Tap “Show answer key” to reveal answers, or print the clean version for students.