My Community Connections
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Exploring Your Community: Past, Present and Future

Grades:
5-8
Subjects:
Social Studies, U.S. History, Language Arts and Technology.

This project lends itself well to team teaching within grade levels - for example, language arts and social studies teachers with media or technology specialist.

Rationale: By researching various aspects of their community, students will gain a better perception of how the past, present and future are linked.

Project 1: Your Community - Past and Present

Project 2: Your Community Tomorrow
Supporting Documents

Student Evaluation
Venn Diagram
Oral Interviews
Extension Activities
Sources of Information
Czech Culture in the Midwest

My Community Connections: A Guide for Teachers
(all the support documents except Czech Culture, in Portable Document Format)

 

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