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Characteristics Of Rural, Urban, Rural Communities

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Lesson 2: Urban, Suburban, Rural Communities: Where Do I live?

Objectives:

-Students will define what urban, rural, and suburban communities are.

-Students will be able to identify what type of community that they live in.

-Students will describe the characteristics that make up their community.

-Students will be able to compare and contrast rural, urban, and suburban communities.

Guided questions:

1. What type of community do my classmates and I live in?
2. How do rural, urban, and suburban communities differ from place to place?
3. What events, people, traditions, practices, and ideas make up my rural, urban, suburban community? Do these impact why each differ?
a. Students will use #3 to distinguish where they live and compare/contrast with classmates

Vocabulary: Community, Rural, Urban, Suburban

Lesson Development/Activities:

Initiation
1. We know that we each belong to different types of communities. Re-tell what a community is. Today we will be exploring the type of community that we live in. They are urban, suburban, and rural communities.
a. Have each description written on an anchor chart with picture and definition to describe each. Students can use this to refer to when they are discussing with partner or when they are writing.

2. This lesson will be introduced with the book: The Little House by Virginia Burton. This story is about a Little House that initially was located in the country but as time passed, the countryside transformed into an urban city. This was a result of many people moving to the countryside and thus turning it into a highly populated area.

OR can use the book Communities in My World by Ella Cane
a. This book introduces the characteristics of the three types of communities: suburban (neighborhood), urban (city), rural(countryside)

3. Teacher will read the story and students should listen closely and be ready to discuss the 3 different types of communities.

4. Teacher will fill in chart that has Urban, Suburban and Rural written at the top and will discuss the points in the book where the community changes and provides information about each community
a. Ex: House starts off in countryside but as years pass, more people move to the town and

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