Home / Social Studies / Printables / Kindergarten to Grade 2 / Improving the Town 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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Circle the best answer.
1. The school was cold when the coal failed. What would help?
A. Send children home all winter B. Keep a store of fuel for the winter C. Blame the merchant 2. Children worked at the mill and nobody recorded their names. What would help now?
A. Forget about it B. Collect family letters and papers into the record office C. Guess the names 3. 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 4. The market walkway is blocked on busy days. What would help?
A. Mark the walkway and agree stall edges B. Close the market C. Ban busy days 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. Few townspeople come to council meetings. What would help?
A. Publish what will be discussed beforehand B. Stop having meetings C. Hold them in secret 7. Old census pages are crumbling. What would help?
A. Let people handle them more B. Throw them away C. Copy them so the original can be handled less 8. 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 LessonPrint · D2.Civ.14.K-2 · Set 21 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Improving the Town Set 21. Prints on its own sheet.
1. Keep a store of fuel for the winter 2. Collect family letters and papers into the record office 3. Raise the river wall, as the council promised 4. Mark the walkway and agree stall edges 5. Store more water, and use less in dry months 6. Publish what will be discussed beforehand 7. Copy them so the original can be handled less 8. Ask families what they know and write labels from it Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.Civ.14.K-2 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.