Canadian urban and rural communities

This five-part unit focuses on different communities throughout Canada, as children learn about the similarities between urban and rural communities. The first section contains a set of lesson plans for the teacher. Details are provided for the activities that the children participate in during each lesson. The second section provides a student booklet in which children record thier findings and research. The third section includes activities that are used during the lessons of the unit, while the fourth section includes a jot note outline, a report outline, and a bibliography outline that the children need to complete the research activities. The final section contains a crossword puzzle and a word search puzzle that reinforce vocabulary. Throughout the unit children learn about the difference between a need and a want the difference between a good and a service characteristics of a rural community similarities and differences between rural and urban communities what makes up a community how communities need each other to survive different communities and the different goods and services they produce the advantages and disadvantages of getting goods and services from other communities writing jot notes into paragraphs writing reports comparing communities and summarizing information