Grades 2-4 Celebrate the diversity of your community by setting aside special days throughout the school year to celebrate other cultures. In this activity students form an assembly line to make a picture. This activity will help students understand the assembly line production process. Students will appreciate the role of special jobs in a community or group. In this activity students make a picture web to describe a place.
Students discuss the characteristics of life in the country, in a suburb, and in a city.
They compare and contrast general environmental differe nces and explore their immediate environment. 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. They develop a resource map to summarize what they have learned. 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.