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Use these worksheets to teach students about different types of communities. These printable resources cover rural, suburban, and urban communities, as well as various types of buildings you might find in these places.

Communities Worksheets - Rural, Suburban, Urban

Urban, Suburban, and Rural

Rural, Suburban, and Urban Workers  FREE 
Tell which type of community (rural, urban, or suburban) you would find each worker described.
Rural, Suburban, and Urban Workers
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Urban Diorama  FREE 
Students color, cut, fold, and glue the urban diorama scene.
Urban Diorama
Suburban Diorama
Create a suburban diorama scene by cutting, folding, gluing, and coloring.
Suburban Diorama
Rural Community Diorama
Create a rural farm scene by cutting, folding, gluing, and coloring.
Rural Community Diorama
Urban-Suburban-Rural Illustration
This full-page illustration shows rural, suburban, and urban communities.
Urban-Suburban-Rural Illustration
Color: Urban Suburban, or Rural
For each question, students are given two pictures of different communities to choose from. They must determine which is the urban, suburban, and rural area. They will also indicate which type of community they live in.
Pre-K through 4th Grade
Color: Urban Suburban, or Rural

Reading Comprehension

Story: Big City Fun
Read this story and answer the questions that follow. In the story, Emily visits the city for the first time and discovers that it's much different than her home in rural Pennsylvania.
(Approx. Reading Level: 3-4)
4th Grade
Story: Big City Fun
Poem: Where Do You Live?
Learn about urban, suburban, and rural communities in this clever poem.
4th Grade
Poem: Where Do You Live?

Buildings

Parts of a Building Cut & Glue Activity
Cut out the words at the bottom of the page and glue them to the correct part of the picture. Words included are window, door, bricks, roof, stairs, and chimney.
Pre-K and Kindergarten
Parts of a Building Cut & Glue Activity
Buildings in the Community Anchor Chart
This anchor chart shows photo examples of common community buildings such as a house, apartment building, school, hospital, fire station, police station, post office, grocery store, and gas station. It includes a challenge for students to draw and label a building in their community.
Pre-K and Kindergarten
Buildings in the Community Anchor Chart

Living Spaces

Where I Live in the Community
Students list their street, town, county, state, country, continent, hemisphere, and even their home planet.
Where I Live in the Community
Drawing My Home
Students can use this page to draw what their home looks like. At the top of the page, there are images of several types of homes.
Pre-K through 1st Grade
Drawing My Home
Count Around My Home
This is a great homework activity for early learners. Students are instructed to look around and count the various parts of their home, including rooms, doors, windows, and stairs.
Pre-K through 1st Grade
Count Around My Home
Counting Objects Around the House
Familiarize students with different things found throughout the house. They can reference a simple number line to help them count the rooms, windows, lamps, and chairs shown in the house.
Pre-K through 1st Grade
Counting Objects Around the House

See Also:

Community Helpers

Check out our resources on helpers in the community. From mail carriers to doctors, if you can think of a community helper, we probably have a worksheet about them.

Map Skills

Learn basic map skills, compass rose directions, latitude and longitude, and more.

Science and Social Studies Worksheets

Full index of Social Studies and Science worksheets on this site.

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Communities - Urban, Suburban, Rural

Community Helpers Mini Book

Urban, Suburban, Rural - Poem

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