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Compare Familiar Places

Children use clues (buildings, traffic, people, open land) to tell a city, a town and a farm area apart, then compare two places kindly by saying how they are the same and how they are different. They finish by sorting helpful and harmful actions and choosing a real way to care for a place.

  • 3 lessons
  • About 30 minutes
  • Compare and care check: 5 questions
  • Ways to answer: fill in the blanks, choose an answer, match pairs, sort into groups and true or false
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What learners will discover

  • Use clues to tell a city, a town and a farm area apart.
  • Compare two places by telling one way they are the same and one way they are different (homes, ways to travel, work), speaking kindly about both.
  • Tell helpful and harmful actions for a place and choose ways to care for it, such as using trash cans, recycling and saving water.

Lessons

  1. City, town and farm 6 steps3 practiceabout 9 min
  2. Same and different 6 steps3 practiceabout 10 min
  3. Caring for places 6 steps3 practiceabout 9 min
  4. Compare and care check 5 questions at the end

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