World Around Us -Grade Six/Seven -People And2neighbours

by Beyer, Barry K.; Craven, Jean; McFarland, Mary A.; Parker, Walter C.

• ISBN13: 9780021459018
• ISBN10: 0021459010
• Edition: Student
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1990-05-31
• Publisher: Macmillan/McGraw-Hill School Div

Table of Contents

Using Your Textbook	1	(1)
UNIT 1 Families	2	(40)
You Are Special	4	(2)
You Grow and Learn	6	(4)
Families Are Special	10	(6)
Looking at Pictures	14	(2)
Families Change	16	(2)
Families Have Rules	18	(4)
Finding Where Things Are	20	(2)
Families Do Things Together	22	(20)
People Who Make a Difference
A Special Painter of Families	25	(1)
Reading Charts	26	(2)
Families in Other Lands	28	(2)
The Big Turnip A play about a family and friends working together. Based on a Russian folk tale	30	(8)
Alexei Tolstoi
Sheila Dori
Catherine Tamblyn
Unit 1 Review	38	(4)
UNIT 2 Needs and Wants	42	(44)
People Have Needs	44	(2)
People Need Food	46	(4)
Using Lists	48	(2)
People Need Clothes	50	(8)
Finding What Is Alike and Different	56	(2)
People Need Shelter	58	(6)
Reading Addresses	60	(2)
Using Floor Plans	62	(2)
People Need Love	64	(2)
People Have Wants	66	(2)
Working for Needs and Wants	68	(18)
Needs and Wants in Other Lands	72	(2)
The Little Red Hen A folk tale about working together to meet the need for food	74	(8)
Catherine Tamblyn
Unit 2 Review	82	(4)
UNIT 3 Places We Live	86	(42)
Places Where People Live	88	(4)
Neighborhood Places	92	(4)
Using Map Keys	94	(2)
Neighborhood Schools	96	(6)
Making Choices
Knowing School Rules	98	(2)
Reading a Neighborhood Map	100	(2)
Neighborhoods Change	102	(4)
Sorting Things into Groups	104	(2)
Living in the United States	106	(6)
Our Beautiful Country	112	(4)
Our Country's Resources	116	(2)
Living on the Earth	118	(10)
Reading Directions	120	(2)
Living in Other Lands	122	(2)
Unit 3 Review	124	(4)
UNIT 4 Our Country's History	128	(32)
The Story of the First Americans	130	(4)
The Story of Christopher Columbus	134	(2)
The Story of the Pilgrims	136	(16)
Putting Things in Order	140	(2)
Our Country's Holidays
People Who Make a Difference	142	(5)
A Special Person Who Loved Trees	147	(1)
Learning the Days of the Week	148	(2)
Learning Months and the Calendar	150	(2)
Our Country's Symbols	152	(8)
Unit 4 Review	156	(4)
UNIT 5 Special Americans	160	(24)
George Washington	162	(4)
Betsy Ross	166	(2)
Abraham Lincoln	168	(4)
Predicting	170	(2)
Martin Luther King, Jr.	172	(4)
Reading Pictographs	174	(2)
You Can Be a Special American	176	(8)
Unit 5 Review	180	(4)
Reference Section
Atlas	184	(5)
Dictionary of Geographic Words	189	(1)
Picture Glossary	190	(8)
Index	198	(2)
Credits	200