1. Locate their urban, suburban, and rural community on a map.
2. Explain how these communities differ from place to place.
3. Identify what makes up an urban, suburban, and rural community.
4. Predict how the types of communities in the future may change, including the roles and responsibilities of families.
5. List geographical and environmental factors that influence the types of communities.

Investigate how people are producers and consumers of goods and services.

6. Analyze how people must make choices due to unlimited wants and needs and limited resources.
7. Find out how scarcity of resources requires people to make choices in urban, rural, and suburban communities.
8. Understand the benefits from the collection of taxes.
9. Investigate how decisions are made to spend the taxes that are collected.
10. State the significance of the United States flag and understand its display and use.
11. Identify various holidays celebrated by people living in urban, rural, and suburbs.
12. Recognize that people in rural, urban, and suburban communities develop rules and laws to govern and protect community members and that they may have conflicts over them.
13. Find out how citizens can participate in decision-making, problem solving, and conflict resolution.
14. Explore who their elected and appointed leaders are who make, enforce and interpret rules and laws in their local community.

Sample performance-based activities:

• Obtain maps form the local Chamber of Commerce and have students locate their community. Identify the suburban and rural communities that surround their city.
• Brainstorm geographic and environmental factors that influence a community.
• Diagram the different kinds of communities noting their similarities and differences.
• Read books such as City Mouse,Country Mouse .
• Make a bulletin board for students to bring in newspaper articles depicting events, people and traditions found in the community.
• Create a timeline of events that have occurred in their family and predict what they think the future will be like.
• Make collages of goods and services that can be found in your community.
• Identify the consumers and producers of each picture.
• Role play what choices take place when people are presented with limited resources to meet their wants and needs.
• Interview parents to find out about taxes. Write in journals about how payment of taxes help us.
• Create a United States flag. Ask a visitor (perhaps a veteran) to come in and discuss how it should be displayed. Research the history of our flag.
• Write letters to the Mayor asking him/her what a citizen can do to participate in decision-making, problem solving or conflict resolution.
• Visit City Hall and find out more about local government.
• Read about communities around the world and explore what things are the same and different as their local community.