Learning goals:

• Chapter 1 – recognize the main ways in which weather affects people’s lives, and compare weather in the past with weather today
• Chapter 2 – locate various places on maps and compare the geographic, cultural and economic history of a place
• Chapter 3 – identify characteristics of and institutions within the local community, compare different types of communities as well as our past and present community, and identify how people form governments to solve problems
• Chapter 4 – examine buildings to identify specific characteristics and draw inferences about our culture
• Chapter 5 – compare sources of learning in the past with sources of learning today
• Chapter 6 – identify the variety of occupations in the local community and the role of the worker in local and state history
• Chapter 7 – identify sources of the things needed by people in the past and today and determine how local business affects a community
• Chapter 8 – identify social issues of local, national, and international significance, find links between the past, present, and the future, and develop constructive attitudes toward diversity

Publication date: 1988

Number of pages: 96

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