After the discussion on what a community is, the students will tour the police station, fire station, and hospital. When the students return, have the class discuss what they have seen through out the day. The students will be shown a map of their community that was made by their teacher. Each student will then make a map of their own. On each map will be the police station, fire station, and hospital.
Students can use other landmarks, buildings, etc.
The students will be asked again to define community and give at least one reason why a particular building or person in their community is important. Students would turn in their writings and maps. Maps would be checked to see if the buildings were put in close proximity of their actual location. Children could do letter writing and say thank you to all who made their field trip possible. Students could compare and contrasts their maps to actual maps of their community.