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Improving the Town is a free printable Kindergarten to Grade 2 social studies worksheet on improving a community, aligned to Common Core standard D2.Civ.14.K-2. It prints 8 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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Improving the Town

D2.Civ.14.K-2

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1.Children worked at the mill and nobody recorded their names. What would help now?
  • A.Guess the names
  • B.Forget about it
  • C.Collect family letters and papers into the record office
2.Old census pages are crumbling. What would help?
  • A.Throw them away
  • B.Let people handle them more
  • C.Copy them so the original can be handled less
3.The museum has no label for half its objects. What would help?
  • A.Remove the objects
  • B.Ask families what they know and write labels from it
  • C.Make labels up
4.The river floods Mill Row every few years. What would help?
  • A.Raise the river wall, as the council promised
  • B.Move the river
  • C.Tell people not to live there
5.The reservoir runs low most summers. What would help?
  • A.Close the taps forever
  • B.Store more water, and use less in dry months
  • C.Wait for rain
6.The market walkway is blocked on busy days. What would help?
  • A.Close the market
  • B.Ban busy days
  • C.Mark the walkway and agree stall edges
7.Few townspeople come to council meetings. What would help?
  • A.Publish what will be discussed beforehand
  • B.Hold them in secret
  • C.Stop having meetings
8.The school was cold when the coal failed. What would help?
  • A.Keep a store of fuel for the winter
  • B.Send children home all winter
  • C.Blame the merchant

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Answer key — Improving the Town

Set 11. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.Collect family letters and papers into the record office
  2. 2.Copy them so the original can be handled less
  3. 3.Ask families what they know and write labels from it
  4. 4.Raise the river wall, as the council promised
  5. 5.Store more water, and use less in dry months
  6. 6.Mark the walkway and agree stall edges
  7. 7.Publish what will be discussed beforehand
  8. 8.Keep a store of fuel for the winter

More practice for D2.Civ.14.K-2

Describe how people have tried to make their community better.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.Civ.14.K-2 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.