HA! This is funny because last year when we were going over this in class, a parent came and told me that she didn’t know the difference between a suburb and a city.

Here are a few ideas for you to try.

1. Find the story City Mouse and Country Mouse…it might be the other way around. That’s a good story to show the differences.

2. Use examples from where you live if possible. I teach in Detroit, so Detroit is the big city, we discuss how there are lots of tall buildings, traffic etc. The suburbs are the other places around Detroit, I usually make them go home, ask their parents and come back with a list of the different suburbs around Detroit. Then for rural, I just stress that it is like living on a farm. They usually have been on a field trip to farm in 1st or K, so they have an idea.

3. Let it pass for the time being, then bring it up whenever you happen upon a picture or a story while reading. Ask your kids if the story takes place in a city, suburb or rural…we use small town instead of rural.

4. Bring in pictures.

5. Review frequently…even if you think they know it, they will forget.

ABOVE EVERYTHING!!! Don’t get stressed out about it. Do as best as you can, but don’t spend 3 weeks on it or anything. If they are having extreme difficulty, move on and maybe come back to it later.

For second grade rural would be country, for example farms.

Urban would be big city, for example New York, lots of skyscrapers, cars on the road.

Suburban would be town, lots of houses with yards, some traffic and shopping.

Just look at a map of your area and pick the closest urban, suburban and rural that some of your students might know. Find some pictures, have them find pictures, ask them to share where they lived and what kind of area it was.

just break it down as much as you can in simplest form. im not familiar with kids age in 2nd grade, but first i would define each like

rural is:

–of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the country, country life, or country people; rustic: rural tranquil

suburban is:

–pertaining to, inhabiting, or being in a suburb or the suburbs of a city or town.

urban is:

–living in a city.

and so then i would draw a picture for each like:

for rural i would draw a farm landscape, but just really simple

for suburban i would draw a nice house in a neighborhood and show how close it is to the city

and for urban i would draw tall high rises and you can use your main city where you are for this (ie washington, dc, richmond, etc)

ps i guess photographs, internet access if you have it would help.

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Oh my gosh!!!! I just started this Unit and exact same chapter and pages today in my 2nd grade class!!!

I’ve been trying to think of an activity for the very same thing.

I was thinking of drawing or finding pics online of examples of each. Then I have them match all the Urban (city) pictures in one row, rural in another, and then suburban in another.

I think they just need to see more examples.

Then have them draw examples. Maybe assign once category to a group so they can work together on one big picture.

Do you have the Houghton Mifflin Social Studies books, Neighborhoods, with the dog on the front???

Unfortunately, your kids probably watch way too much TV for their own good. Fortunately, you can use this in class. Think of a bunch of TV shows that have an “urban,” a “rural” or a “suburban” setting, and have the kids tell you the characteristics of each. (You’ll have to start them off.)

Unload pictures from the internet to explain the differences. Try to make them find out what would expect to find in a rural community and in an urban one. Apply to knowledge, have you ever lived in a farm? Always in a city?

Second grade, does this mean they are infants?

Urban is town-like, built up, not much green space.

Rural is countryside villages, one shop, a pub, a post office, a few houses and maybe a little school, all surrounded by fields.

Suburban is edge of town housing area. Less crowded than urban, houses with gardens, parks, high street shops rather than shopping centres, family orientated.

Hope this is some help! Good luck and I am sure you will make a great teacher!

Run to the Dollar General Store or Big Lots and use toys. I teach freshmen in high school with toys. But, that is the kind of mentality I am dealing with working out here

Spend one day on each where you make the classroom look like each type of community and have posters on the wall about charateristics of each.