
Grades 9-12
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Students will learn about a variety of businesses and the service they provide to a community. They will build a town selecting seven business they feel would be the most important to have in order to live in this community.
Build the community of your dreams. Learn about the different businesses and what service they provide. Grab your hard hat and help Bubba the builder begin to lay out your community.
The students should visit the following link to build a community.
https://www.pbs.org/parents/rogers
Creating neighborhoods in artwork can help the students to realize that people live in all kinds of communities of neighbors and friends.
Now that the students have an idea of what they want their community to look like, they should visit the following link to get an idea of what they want to have in their community.
https://www.pbs.org/parents/rogers
Seeing the factory can help the students understand that most things happen through a process— with a beginning, a middle, and an end.
Think About It…
In the classroom students will respond to these questions in a class discussion format.
At Home Project
Have the students build a 3-dimensioal community of the town that you live in. They may use various materials (e.g., milk cartons, shoe boxes), depending out what is available.
Make sure the students can select the three correct answers from the following list of five choices as to why it would be important to have these businesses in the community.
[1. Provide a service to the community
2. Produce a good or product for the people
3. Provide jobs for the community
4. Nice to have those businesses in town
5. Makes the town bigger.]
Have the community that they designed printed off as an end product of what the student created. Print out copies of the community the students have designed. Assign them to write a story about their community.
Grades 9-12
Grades Higher Education, 9-12
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Grades K-2, 3-5