This essay focuses on Community resources in classroom learning. Create a brochure for immigrant families in your community that contains at least three community resources that support English acquisition. For each resource include: The name of the resource or organization.

 Community resources in classroom learning

Create a brochure for immigrant families in your community that contains at least three community resources that support English acquisition. For each resource include: The name of the resource or organization. The URL of their website or relevant contact information (if applicable). A brief explanation of how each resource or organization supports English acquisition. Include a 250-500 word statement regarding culture and learning. Your statement should include: Examples of how culture affects learning. Examples of sociocultural influences on ELLs. A discussion regarding bilingualism and home language use in ELL classroom learning. Support this statement with at least three scholarly resources.

Archaeological studies of social communities use the term “community” in two ways, paralleling usage in other areas. The first is an informal definition of community as a place where people used to live. In this sense it is synonymous with the concept of an ancient settlement – whether a hamlet, village, town, or city. The second meaning resembles the usage of the term in other social sciences: a community is a group of people living near one another who interact socially.

Social interaction on a small scale can be difficult to identify with archaeological data. Most reconstructions of social communities by archaeologists rely on the principle that social interaction in the past was conditioned by physical distance. Therefore, a small village settlement likely constituted a social community and spatial subdivisions of cities and other large settlements may have formed communities. Archaeologists typically use similarities in material culture—from house types to styles of pottery—to reconstruct communities in the past. This classification method relies on the assumption that people or households will share more similarities in the types and styles of their material goods with other members of a social community than they will with outsiders.^[6]

Ecology[edit]

In ecology, a community is an assemblage of populations of different species, interacting with one another. Community ecology is the branch of ecology that studies interactions between and among species. It considers how such interactions, along with interactions between species and the abiotic environment, affect community structure and species richness, diversity and patterns of abundance. Species interact in three ways: competition, predation and mutualism.

Competition typically results in a double negative—that is both species lose in the interaction. Predation is a win/lose situation with one species winning. Mutualism, on the other hand, involves both species cooperating in some way, with both winning. The two main types of communities are major which are self-sustaining and self-regulating (such as a forest or a lake) and minor communities which rely on other communities (like fungi decomposing a log) and are the building blocks of major communities.