Explore · Create · Connect
Community Quest Projects
Thirty-six hands-on Social Studies projects for Oaklynn and Brooksley to explore people, places, communities, history, citizenship, geography, and the ways we live and work together.
Our 36-week project plan
A year of community quests
Available Community Quests include an active Open guide button. Additional project guides are added as each weekly quest is prepared.
| Community Quest | Project focus | Project resource |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1Build a Community | Design a miniature community with places, helpers, services, and ways people connect. | Open guide |
| Week 2Question Detectives | Practice noticing, wondering, and turning curiosity into questions worth exploring. | Open guide |
| Week 3Sources Tell Stories | Compare objects, pictures, books, and people as sources of information. | Open guide |
| Week 4Map Our Morning | Create a simple map that shows the places and pathways used during the school day. | Open guide |
| Week 5Community Type Detective | Use visible clues to identify and compare urban, suburban, and rural communities. | Open guide |
| Week 6Neighborhood Texture Art | Use rubbings and mixed media to represent textures found around a neighborhood. | Open guide |
| Week 7Design a Community Park | Plan an inclusive park that meets different community needs. | — |
| Week 8Virtual Community Trip | Observe a community virtually and record important places, people, and connections. | — |
| Week 9Growing and Changing Timeline | Sequence personal milestones and notice how people grow and change. | — |
| Week 10Family Tradition Quilt | Create paper quilt squares that represent family traditions and memories. | — |
| Week 11Seed Engineer Challenge | Design and test a way to help a model seed travel. | — |
| Week 12Tradition Through Food | Explore how recipes, ingredients, and meals carry family and cultural stories. | — |
| Week 13Build a Plant Maze | Predict and observe how a plant grows toward light through a simple maze. | — |
| Week 14Inside the Human Body | Build a child-friendly body model and connect organs with their jobs. | — |
| Week 15Balanced-Plate Café | Design pretend meals that include variety, color, and balanced food groups. | — |
| Week 16Museum of Family History | Curate family objects, photographs, or replicas and explain what they reveal. | — |
| Week 17Celebrations Around the World | Compare how communities express joy, belonging, and tradition. | — |
| Week 18Goal-Setting Vision Garden | Turn personal goals into a garden of visual symbols and achievable steps. | — |
| Week 19Germ-Spread Experiment | Model how germs travel and test effective handwashing strategies. | — |
| Week 20Community Helper Tool Lab | Match tools to community helpers and invent a tool that solves a problem. | — |
| Week 21Build a Helpful Vehicle | Engineer a vehicle for a community job, then explain its useful features. | — |
| Week 22Rules Make Games Work | Create, test, and revise rules that make a game safe and fair. | — |
| Week 23Classroom Leadership Challenge | Identify a shared need and take on roles to improve the learning space. | — |
| Week 24Family Voting Booth | Practice making a group decision with choices, ballots, counting, and results. | — |
| Week 25Symbols Tell a Story | Study familiar symbols and design one that represents the family or academy. | — |
| Week 26Virtual Trip to Washington, D.C. | Explore national landmarks and notice how buildings and symbols communicate ideas. | — |
| Week 27Emergency-Ready House | Design a model home with safe exits, meeting places, and emergency supplies. | — |
| Week 28Outdoor Safety Designers | Create signs or gear that help people make safer choices outdoors. | — |
| Week 29Treasure-Map Challenge | Use symbols, landmarks, direction words, and spatial reasoning to guide a search. | — |
| Week 30Then-and-Now Invention Lab | Compare an older tool with its modern version and imagine its next improvement. | — |
| Week 31Living Timeline | Arrange people, objects, and events to make the passage of time visible. | — |
| Week 32History Detective Station | Examine clues from the past and make evidence-based observations. | — |
| Week 33Needs-or-Wants Store | Sort goods and services, make choices, and explain needs versus wants. | — |
| Week 34From Resource to Product | Trace and model how a natural resource becomes something people use. | — |
| Week 35Pop-Up Business Workshop | Create a simple product or service, set up a shop, and practice exchanging value. | — |
| Week 36Discovery Museum Celebration | Curate favorite creations and discoveries, then guide visitors through the year. | — |
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