Series Synopsis:
What does it mean to live and work in a community? Why do communities have so many rules? What are the different types of communities? These and other questions are answered in this visually appealing and informative series. Using re-enactments, live action footage, colorful maps and engaging graphics, each of these programs take youngsters on a delightful journey that helps them feel a part of their own community and understand the communities of others. Along the way they’ll stop at Native American and colonial towns, visit present day urban and suburban communities and discover how geography shapes the life of a community.
Key Benefits:
• correlates to all states’ curriculum standards
• age-appropriate scripts ensure clarity of concepts
• graphics and maps used to reinforce understanding and recall
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Exploring Communities Alike and Different
How is a rural community different from a suburban community? What characteristics do cities and suburban areas share?
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Exploring Communities and Geography
Whether students live near an ocean, the mountains or the desert, this exciting program will show them how the geography shapes and molds the daily life and economics of a community. Students learn about land formation as well as different regions and climates.
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Exploring Communities and Its Workers
From firemen and postal workers to mechanics and bankers, this program helps kids understand why people in a community work and how that work provides products and services that community members need and want.
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Exploring Communities Long Ago
Take students on a journey to early Native American communities, Colonial towns and early American cities to explore the variety of communities, as they existed in the past.
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Exploring Communities Rules and Laws
Help students understand how and why communities make and enforce laws!
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