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Exploring the Marketplace: The Community Publishing Company - Teacher Resource Manual Grade: 3-4   Published: 1989 8 of the 35 lessons are related to this lesson. The top 5 are listed below. Lesson 2: Community Resources This lesson aims to develop an understanding of natural, human, and capital goods resources through a mapping exercise. The students study a map of a model community and begin to understand that a co... Lesson 4: Communities Today Students study how resources change in communities by comparing the maps of Communityville. This lesson summarizes the two previous map lessons and helps students become familiar with the suppliers of... Lesson 13: Results of the Community Interviews Students review their Community Notebooks and interview forms to help them form generalizations about their community. Lesson 21: Resources for the Publishing Company In this lesson, you and your class begin to make decisions about the kid of book you will produce. The class also speculates on the resources necessary to produce the book and the cost of the resourc... Lesson 3: Communities Change Students analyze how Communityville has grown by examining another map of the town. The students locate new resources that provide goods and services to the people of Communityville.

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