Local area

This neighborhood map can be used for teaching map skills to primary age children through relative terms using their own environment. This map can be adapted to teach certain map skills, terms of location, and spatial relationships.

Our local community board. Using an old car mat and photographs from where the children visit over the year at pre-school such as the post office, tea room, doctors, dentist, hairdressers, shop, etc

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Kindergarten has been learning all about Community over the past few weeks. Yesterday we went to the fire station and today we finally completed our “in-house community.” Well worth t…

Dharavi (Hindi and Marathi: धारावी; also spelled Daravi, Darravy, Dorrovy) is a slum in Mumbai, India. It is one of the largest slums in the world. Dharavi slum was founded in 1880s during the British colonial era. The slum grew in part because of expulsion of factories and residents from peninsular city center by colonial government, and from rural poor migrating into urban Mumbai (then called Bombay). Modern day Dharavi came to be founded in the 1940's once the British left India, and once…

Community Paragraph Planner- This What is a Community? pack was created to help primary students understand economics concepts related to types of communities, goods, services, consumers, producers, and community helpers. $

A hands-on approach to building your community. Children love constructing and being able to walk through their community. Real photos help teach mapping and community buildings.

Indispensable design lessons from one of the oldest forms of graphic design.

Get a freebie to get you started from this blog post! Just add felt or foam pieces to your block center to create interactive maps. Kids can learn map skills, explore communities and community helpers, and practice a number of math and literacy skills!