Lesson 1: Exploring a Community

Getting Started

Questions to Explore

• How do communities serve and protect the people who live in them?
• How do members of a community help meet other members' needs?

Facts and Definitions

• Rural means in the country.
• Urban means in the city.
• A three-dimensional shape stands on its own and is not flat.

Skills

• Identify and explore different communities (SS)
• Recognize goods and services provided by the community (SS)
• Describe jobs that contribute to goods and services (SS)
• Investigate features of maps (SS)
• Create simple maps (SS)
• Recognize, draw, and build three dimensional shapes: rectangular prisms, cubes, cones, and cylinders (M)
• Solve problems using spatial visualization (M)
• Listen and respond to stories read aloud (LA)
• Read and comprehend fiction (LA)

Materials

• 3 sheets of poster board
• scissors

Introduction