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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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