Let's Take a Journey: Beaverton, Oregon, U.S.A. - Suburban Life for Kids
From Miacademy Learning Channel · 2025
Summary
In this Miacademy 'Let's Take a Journey' episode, learners visit Beaverton, Oregon to see what life is like in a suburb. Beaverton is a suburb — a community of houses and neighborhoods just outside a bigger city, where many people drive into the city for work. A friendly look at how the kind of place people live — a city, a suburb, a small town, or the countryside — shapes their everyday lives, great for a 2nd-grade communities lesson.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Use these after watching to talk through the social studies idea in the video.
- What kind of community is Beaverton, Oregon — a big city, a suburb, a small town, or the countryside? How can you tell?
- What do people in Beaverton, Oregon do for work, for fun, or to get around?
- How is Beaverton, Oregon different from the community where you live? How is it the same?
Quick work-a-long
Words to know: community, city, suburb, town, rural.
Try it: Decide whether your own community is most like a city, a suburb, a small town, or the countryside. Write one reason, and draw one thing you would see there.