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Clicking to Success

The CD-ROM, Welcome to Youville, focuses on the theme of community. It is designed to complement the Youville VHS-broadcast program with a closer look at food, shelter, safety, and fun, as primary community needs.
 
The CD also looks at communities in terms of rural, suburban, and urban characteristics. Students have fun exploring what a community is, how communities fulfill needs, and how communities compare by navigating several exciting interactive games and activities!

Students can draw and print pictures, write letters to pen pals, and time travel to the past to see what communities were like long ago!
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Core Concepts
Students' activities are divided into three sections, plus an introduction.
The introduction contains:
- A basic welcome and introduction to the theme of community
In "Tune In" students define their local community:
- What is a community?
- How do communities meet basic needs and wants?
- How are communities alike and different?
In "Let's Explore!" students identify how communities help us meet our needs and wants:
- How does location / environment help to determine our needs and wants?
- Why do we have rules in our communities?
- How have communities changed to meet needs and wants over time?
In "It's what we do that counts!" students compare communities:
- What are the human (man-made) & natural characteristics of a community?
- How are members of my community alike and different?
- How does my idea of a community compare to others?


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Production funding for The Enrichment Channel was provided by the
United States Department of Education, Office of Educational Research
and Improvement, Technology Innovation Challenge Grant #R303K10077-01A.
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