United Nations
United Nations Cyberschoolbus: Cities of Today, Cities of Tomorrow
The six teaching units of this site provide an overview of urbanization, its history, its potential, its problems. The site has lots of activities, and a game.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Power to the People
Students read and evaluate descriptions of how people live "off the grid" using solar power and come to understand better the degree to which that lifestyle is or is not truly independent of technological, economic and cultural...
Pew Research Center
Pew Social and Demographic Trends: Community Satisfaction Quiz
The Pew Hispanic Research Center provides a quiz asking questions about your community and how you rate it based on the probing questions. Includes questions exploring different aspects of the community some find important. Compares your...
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Community: This Is My Town
Learn about all the things a small town has to offer to people who live or visit there. Includes audio narration in 20 additional languages with text in English.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Community: The City Park
Learn about all the things one can do at the city park. Includes audio narration in 9 additional languages with text in English.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Community: We Love the Library
Read about the things you can do when you visit the local library. Includes audio narration in 16 additional languages with text in English.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Postc@rds From the Net
In-depth look at your community. Students develop an appreciation of the community in which they live, taking a closer look at the world just outside their doors and sharing their experiences with their classmates, near and far.
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: Exploring Community Through Local History
Guidelines for exploring local history and culture through examining a collection of written and spoken stories, landmarks, and traditions, such as food, festivals, and events. Students will research a variety of primary resources and...
Rice University
Rice University: Focus on Your Community
A resource page for teachers and students with lesson plans and varied resources to study your local community.
Channel 4 Learning
4 Learning: Geography Essentials, Your Local Area
This site lets you explore how cities are formed by businesses and people, how traffic affects a city, and gives the teacher worksheets and links to further learning.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Analyze a Community Map
Understand the map of a community and recognize the strategies developers have in placing public services in specific locations throughout the town.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Garbage: How Can My Community Reduce Waste?
A website devoted to the challenge of reducing solid waste for the good of our environment.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Shoals Area Landmarks and Sites of Interest
In this instructional activity students choose a local landmark or site located in the Shoals area and research that site's contribution to history. Students demonstrate their knowledge of a specific Shoals area landmark or site by...
A to Z Teacher Stuff
A to Z Teacher Stuff: Lego Block Center (Activity)
This lesson assists in developing teamwork in kindergarten age children and encourages them to take a look at their local community and its institutions.
Smithsonian Institution
National Postal Museum: Color Away
Put your crayons away and create postal themed works of art with this online coloring book from the National Postal Service.
Center for Literacy and Disability Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tar Heel Reader: Communities
Communities come in all shapes and sizes identified in this e-book.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Communities
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart defines the various types of communities and ties into the book The Little House by Virginia Burton. It features pictures from Google Earth and questions for Activotes.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Community Changes
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses basic community changes including changes in population, inventions, and transportation.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Comparing Communities
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a comparison of the three types of communities, urban, rural, and suburb. It contains streamline video, and many interactive activities.