Elementary School Table of Contents

Ten Classroom Activities for Grades 2 - 5

1. What a Town Needs

Ghost Town Tales
What a Town Lost
Successful Towns
Activity Sheet: What Do You Think?

2. Community Signs

Samples of Community Signs
Questions about Community Signs

3. Important Places for People in Our Town

Activity Sheet: Places for People in Our Town

4. A Town's Money: Where Does It Come From? Where Does It Go?

Handout: How Towns Get Their Money
Graph: Where Shady Hollow Gets Money....
Activity: What Do You Think Shady Hollow Spends Money For?
Test Your Revenue Knowledge
Answer Key for Test

5. The Mayor and the City Council

Handout: The Mayor and City Council at Work
Venn Diagram: Mayor and City Council at Work
Diagram Answer Key
Handout: Issue Before the Council
Handout: Roles for the Mock City Council Meeting

6. A Web of Work

A List of Questions for a Guest Speaker
Handout: Job Descriptions of City Workers
Handout: Example of a Web of City Jobs
Handout: Some of the City Jobs in El Paso
Handout: Some of the City Jobs in McAllen
Handout: Some of the City Jobs in Kerrville
Handout: Some of the City Jobs in Weatherford
Handout: Some of the City Jobs in Hamilton
Handout: Some of the City Jobs in New Waverly

7. Water: A Town's Most Important Natural Resource

Handout: Possible Pictures for Your Water Book
Handout: Instructions for Your Water Book Cover Page
Handout:Water Words
Transparency (Map): Water Sources for Some of Our Texas Towns
Handout: Sources of Water for the Towns on the Map
Handout: Water Treatment Plant
Handout: How Towns Use Water
Handout: Ways to Conserve Water Inside Our Homes
Handout: Ways to Conserve Water Outside Our Homes
Handout: Ways Towns Require Citizens to Conserve Water

8.The Problem with Trash

Handout: How Important Is Recycling?
Handout: What Can We Recycle?

9. How People of the Past Have Helped Our Town

Handout: Relative Time Represented by Transportation
Handout: Contributions of People of the Past
Handouts: People of the Past Who Contributed to Texas Towns
Worksheet: People of the Past
Worksheet Key: People of the Past
Handouts: Tell About Person of the Past

10. How Towns Help Citizens with Special Needs

Handout: A Letter from Dave Smith
Handout: Examples of Ways Towns Help Citizens with Special Needs

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