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History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 2

How Communities Change

Second graders explore what changes and what stays the same in communities over time: how people travel, the tools they use and the buildings they live in. They connect causes to effects (a railroad arrives, a highway passes a town by) and use a population chart and a short history of Chicago to describe how a real city grew and rebuilt after the fire of 1871.

  • 3 lessons
  • About 60 minutes
  • Change over time: 8 questions
  • Ways to answer: fill in the blanks, choose an answer, highlight a text, match pairs, type a number and put in order
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What learners will discover

  • Describe how communities change over time (transportation, technology, buildings) and what stays the same.
  • Explain causes and effects of change in a community.
  • Use a chart and a short history to describe how a real community, Chicago, changed over time.

Lessons

  1. What changes, what stays 3 steps2 practiceabout 20 min
  2. Causes and effects 4 steps2 practiceabout 20 min
  3. Chicago grows and rebuilds 5 steps3 practiceabout 20 min
  4. Change over time 8 questions at the end

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