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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.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
2.The reservoir runs low most summers. What would help?
  • A.Wait for rain
  • B.Close the taps forever
  • C.Store more water, and use less in dry months
3.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
4.Old census pages are crumbling. What would help?
  • A.Copy them so the original can be handled less
  • B.Let people handle them more
  • C.Throw them away
5.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
6.Few townspeople come to council meetings. What would help?
  • A.Stop having meetings
  • B.Hold them in secret
  • C.Publish what will be discussed beforehand
7.The museum has no label for half its objects. What would help?
  • A.Make labels up
  • B.Remove the objects
  • C.Ask families what they know and write labels from it
8.Children worked at the mill and nobody recorded their names. What would help now?
  • A.Collect family letters and papers into the record office
  • B.Guess the names
  • C.Forget about it

LessonPrint · D2.Civ.14.K-2 · Set 3 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — Improving the Town

Set 3. Prints on its own sheet.

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

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.