Celebrating Our Own Community (OCI) > Why Is the Community Like This? (CC)

Why Is the Community Like This?

How do factors such as geography, culture, language, heritage, economics and resources influence people, places, things and activities in a community?

Specific Outcomes

This critical challenge may address these outcomes:

Specific Outcome 2.1.1.1	-	Students will appreciate how a community's physical geography shapes identity
Specific Outcome 2.1.2.5	-	What geographic features determined the establishment of each community (e.g. soil, water and climate)?
Specific Outcome 2.1.3.3	-	How are the communities strengthened by their stories, traditions and events of the past?
Specific Outcome 2.1.3.4	-	What are the linguistic roots and practices in the communities?
Specific Outcome 2.1.3.6	-	How do these communities connect with one another (e.g., cultural exchanges, languages, traditions, music)?
Specific Outcome 2.2.6.1	-	What characteristics define their community?
Specific Outcome 2.2.6.2	-	What is unique about their community?
Specific Outcome 2.S.7.6	-	Students will organize information from more than one source
Specific Outcome 2.S.7.9	-	Students will draw conclusions from organized information

C	Citizenship
ER	Economics and Resources
CC	Culture and Community

I	Identity
LPP	The Land: Places and People
GC	Global Connections

TCC	Time, Continuity and Change
PADM	Power, Authority, and Decision Making