Unit 6 ~ Communities Grow and Change ~ This unit analyzes how and why communities change or stay the same over time and what happens as a result.
Main Ideas:
1. Some things in a community
change and some things stay the same.
2. Changes in a community can be
slow, fast, planned, or unplanned.
3. Growth in a community can
sometimes create problems.
4. Every community has a history.
Suggested Independent Reading
The Town that
Moved by Mary Jane Finsand
My Great-Aunt
Arizona by Gloria Houston
The House on
Maple Street by Bonnie Pryor
Under the Moon
by
Dylan Sheldon
Letting Swift
River Go by Jane Yolen
Suggestions to Extend and Enrich this Unit:
Interview a grandparent or other person of a similar age. Ask that person to tell you about the most important changes during his or her lifetime and the most important way in which life has stayed the same.
Architects and
urban planners often work together to decide the location of parks, schools,
homes, office buildings, and shopping centers. Draw the plan for a new
community.
Are there modern
cities that rely on canals for transportation? How does the city of Venice,
Italy use canals.