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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Community Meeting [Pdf]
"Community Meeting" is a one page, fictional reading passage about the needs of a community and how they need to work together to meet those needs. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Community Progress [Pdf]
"Community Progress" is a one page, realistic fiction passage about how students created a mural for their school, which generated lots of attention from the press, parents, and other schools. It is followed by constructed-response...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Community Progress? [Pdf]
"Community Progress?" is a one page, nonfiction passage about three community projects in Chicago; each group saw a problem, decided on a solution, and implemented it. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require...
Cynthia J. O'Hora
Mrs. O's House: School or Club Multimedia Presentation Project
Boast about your school or a club you belong to by creating a video or slideshow. Guidelines for creation are offered.
Cynthia J. O'Hora
Mrs. O's House: Look Into Your Community History Through Its Names
Delve into your community's history. Who is the guy that a bridge or street is named after in your town? Why was he or she important? This project encourages students to get to know the history of the community better.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Games
This site, based on the PBS Kids series Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, contains interactive games related the episodes. Students will play games associated with helping, building, playing, and listening.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Big Brother Daniel
This early reading module is an extension of PBS Kids' series, Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood. Four e-books share read-aloud stories that feature Daniel Tiger: Big Brother Daniel, Neighborhood Clean Up, Daniel's Babysitter, and Something...
Other
Wesleyan: Ancient Greece: Roles of Women, Children and Men
A detailed explanation of the role of women and children in the social and political life of ancient Greece.
Other
Urbanization
Discover how the development of industry has impacted the growth of urban areas. Take a look at a case study and read more information about this shift in population settlement.
Other
My Science Box: Ecosystem Organization
In this lesson, students will learn about the different levels in the hierarchy of ecology and explain the relationships: organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome, and biosphere. They will also discover why different regions...
Sea World Parks & Entertainment
Sea World: Biodiversity
Depicts biodiversity with a brief narrative. Includes vocabulary, bibliography, and one activity. Subject matter at an upper intermediate grade level or higher.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Write Talks: Students Discover Real Writers/audiences/purposes
There's a world of writers out there, and in this lesson students discover them as they listen to presentations from local writers and learn about what, why, and how they write in their day-to-day lives.
Other
Stories of American Community
What does it take to make an American community? View the twelve different communities that are profiled through narrative, pictures, and audio.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Levels of Organization: Lesson 4
This lesson will present the levels of organization of living things. It is 4 of 6 in the series titled "Levels of Organization."
Other
Planning.org: Kids and Community
Use this site to explore how you create communities, how you live in them, and how you change them. This site also has information on the career of city planning, and activities on city planning.
Other
Texas Marital Property Issues
This web page contains information about divorce in Texas. It explains that there are two different types of property in the State of Texas: one is community property and the other is separate property.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Biological Communities
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Provides an overview of biological communities.
Central Intelligence Agency
Cia: World Fact Book: Homepage
Sponsored by the CIA, the World Fact Book gives current information about the world's countries and peoples. Includes geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues sections.
Other
Awesome Library
Awesome Library's searchable database is full of resources in all subject areas. It also provides information to parents, students, teachers, principal, family, and community.
Read Works
Read Works: My Town's Festival
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a little boy named Noah who likes to go to the fall festival in his home town. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: A Clean Park
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Tyler who decides to do his part to help keep his community park clean. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: A Community of People
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text explaining the meaning of the word "community." A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: A Community of People
[Free Registration/Login Required] Intended to support early elementary students' reading comprehension, the meaning of the word "community" is explained in an informational text. Visual cues are provided to support the passage and...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Levels of Ecological Organization
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Ecosystems are organized into several different levels, and they can be studied at any one of the various levels of organization. Learn more about levels of...