Scholastic
Scholastic: Listen and Read: Community Club
Learn about jobs such as mayor, police officer and veterinarian. Click on each job to find out about these professions.
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Millertown 1900 Men Horses Oxen Steam
The founding and development of Millertown in central Newfoundland is profiled. One man's vision created this logging town in the wilderness. Archival photographs and documents are included
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Unsung History Makers: Maria Moreno
In this interactive lesson, use primary and secondary sources such as video and audio to unravel the mystery of Maria Moreno, a woman who fought for farm labor rights before Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta formed the United Farm Workers....
PBS
Art21: Pepon Osorio
Osorio's work stems from his experiences as a social worker in New York City. His large scale sculptures and installations are his way to "return art to the community."
Other
Bringing History Home: The Progressive Era
In this 4th grade unit, students study how citizens and government of the early 20th century sought solutions to problems that accompanied immigration and industrialization. By focusing on child labor, factory working conditions and...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Communities: What They Provide for Us
Click and drag the picture of each person the to the job that he or she performs.
Read Works
Read Works: Friendly Faces
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about friendly community members including: a police officer, a doctor, a firefighter, a teacher, and a construction worker. A question sheet is available to help students build reading...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: A Peep for All Seasons
Support your Economics or History curriculum with this video that introduces students to Just Born, a candy manufacturer in Pennsylvania that is adapting its seasonal business model to changing times. Then, use the accompanying lesson...
Royal British Colombia Museum (Canada)
Italians in British Columbia
The Royal British Columbia Museum discusses the role that Italians played in shaping the province. Italian workers were instrumental with the gold rush, with coal mines and with the construction of the railroad. The Italian Community...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Getting to Know You
The students will go on an in-school scavenger hunt to get to know the many kinds of people that make up an elementary school community. They will work in small groups and use digital cameras to take pictures of the workers they find. By...
Read Works
Read Works: Friendly Faces
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about adult helpers in our community including: a police officer, a doctor, a firefighter, a teacher, and a construction worker. A question sheet is available to help students...
Internal Revenue Service
Irs: Payroll Taxes and Federal Income Tax Withholding
Payroll taxes include the Social Security tax and the Medicare tax. Social Security taxes provide benefits for retired workers, the disabled, and the dependents of both. The Medicare tax is used to provide medical benefits for certain...
Other
Cesar E. Chavez, an American Hero
The official site for the Cesar E. Chavez Foundation provides information on the life and ideals of Chavez and the activities of the Foundation.
Other
Ufw: Dolores Huerta
A lengthy and detailed biography of Dolores Huerta who has spent her life championing the rights of farmworkers.
PBS
Pbs: Boulder City
Companion page to the documentary on the Boulder City, a planned city in the middle of the desert.
Other
Biz Kids: Break the Bank
In this interactive game, you are a worker at a community bank, helping customers get good loans and save for their future. However, the terrible Mr. Boar and his clerks from a payday loan company have infiltrated your bank! Rally the...
Other
Indian Americans Top Census Chart Among Asian Americans
Short article discusses the census findings for the Indian-Americans. "One obvious factor for the growth in the Indian-American community is the importing of hi-tech workers."
PBS
The Sixth Section
Site is a companion piece to a PBS special on a group of Mexican immigrants who live and work in America but send their money back home to Mexico.
Stephen Byrne
History for Kids: Cesar Chavez
A biography featuring the nonviolent Cesar Chavez. With his passion for equal rights for minorities, he established more than one national organization to draw awareness to his purpose.
Curated OER
Unesco: United Kingdom: New Lanark
New Lanark is a small 18th- century village set in a sublime Scottish landscape where the philanthropist and Utopian idealist Robert Owen moulded a model industrial community in the early 19th century. The imposing cotton mill buildings,...
Curated OER
Unesco: United Kingdom: Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
The area around Blaenavon is evidence of the pre-eminence of South Wales as the world's major producer of iron and coal in the 19th century. All the necessary elements can still be seen - coal and ore mines, quarries, a primitive railway...
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