With this activity, students express a personal view of land areas as well as buildings, schools, stores, and cultural events that make their community unique. As children study their own community, they also develop the framework for learning about other communities. In this activity, children interview a classroom visitor to learn about another community and discover what it has in common with their own. In this activity, students research the traditions of different cultures through the creation of a multi-cultural calendar. In this activity students map the route and highlights of a trip.
Students trace routes on a map, identify and locate tourist attractions, and explore their state.
What better way to have children share information about themselves than to make trading cards. This activity will enable children to see that other neighborhoods can be different from their own, but also similar in many ways. If you're looking for classroom projects in the other curriculum areas, try our Activity Search. The Activity Search gives you access to a wide variety of classroom activities, searchable by grade or cross-curricular theme. If you have a classroom activity you'd like to add, send it to us.