1 What Is a Community?..........................
Learn what makes a place a community. Read about what people do in a community. Read & Do: One Community’s History
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2 How Are Communities Different?
Learn about three kinds of communities. Read about life in the city and suburbs. Read about life in the country.
Read & Do: Instant Suburbs
3 What Is a Map?
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Learn about maps. Read about the parts of a map. Discover how to read a map.
Read & Do: Mapping a Trip
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4 What Is Geography?
Learn about different land and bodies of water found on Earth. Discover what features you can find on a map.
Read & Do: Riding for Climate
5 How Do People Use Our Environment?
Learn about nature and different environments. Discover how people use and sometimes hurt their environment. Read & Do: Using Plants in New Ways
6 How Are Goods Made and Brought to Us?
Read about how goods are made and who makes them. Learn how goods are brought to stores for people to buy.
Read & Do: Food from the Desert
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7 Who Provides Services in a Community?
Learn what service jobs are. Read about people who do these jobs in a community.
Read & Do: Working in Central Park
8 How Can I Be a Smart Consumer?
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Learn about needs and wants. Find out why you can’t get everything you want. Discover ways to be a smart consumer.
Read & Do: Shopping for School
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9 How Do Communities Change?
Read about how a city can change over time. Learn how people can make their city a better place to live.
Read & Do: Los Angeles Grows
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10 How Did One Community Change?
Find out how San Francisco changed from a small town to a big city. Discover how people can learn about a place’s past.
Read & Do: Family Stories
11 How Can One Person Make a Difference?
Read about four people from the past. Discover how they helped their communities. Read & Do: Save the Park Day
12 How Do Leaders Help Their Communities?
Learn how communities choose leaders. Read about the important things leaders do for their communities.
Read & Do: Leaders Vote for the Community
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13 What Does a Good Citizen Do?
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Read about good citizens. Learn what you can do to be a good citizen.
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14 What Do Communities Share? .... 170
Read about things that communities share with each other. Learn why it is important for communities to help each other.
Read & Do: Happy Birthday, USA! .......... 180
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Landmarks of Citizenship: Special Days, Special Places................ 184
The United States has many special celebrations and places. Let’s take a trip to learn more. At each stop, we can learn about the history of our country.
Washington, D.C.: Everybody’s City
New York City: Welcome to the United States
Old Glory, Our Flag
Giving Thanks in Plymouth
Honoring the Presidents at Mount Rushmore
Memorial Day in Toledo
Veterans Day in Texas
Working Together in San Francisco
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Primary Sources
You will learn that a primary source of an event is created by someone who was there. See for yourself what you can learn about history from old photos, tools, and other objects.
Artifacts from Marshall, Texas history
Photo of Levittown, Pennsylvania, taken from the air
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Photo of family in front of a newly-built Levittown home 21
Photo of child riding a bicycle in front of Levittown houses
Photo of George Washington Carver teaching, about 1902
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Photo of neighborhood near a steel mill, Pittsburgh, about 1938 112
Photo of Old Mission Church, Los Angeles, late 1800s
Old gold mining tools
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Photo of San Francisco horse-pulled trolley 123
Photo of people living in tents after 1906 San Francisco earthquake
Photo of San Francisco 1906 earthquake
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Photo of fire following 1906 San Francisco earthquake 125
Photo of people cleaning up debris from 1906 San Francisco earthquake
Photo of fallen buildings after 1906 San Francisco earthquake
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Photo of people right after 1906 San Francisco earthquake 127
Letter and photo from the California Gold Rush
Photo of people on the beach, San Francisco, before 1906
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Photo of a boy sitting on a pile of bricks, after 1906 San Francisco earthquake 131
Photo of San Francisco, after the earthquake of 1906
Photo of Jane Addams, about 1912
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Photo of Garrett A. Morgan, lived 1877 to 1963 137
Photo of Susan La Flesche Picotte, lived 1865 to 1915
Photo of Luis Valdez, 1979
Poster for Abraham Lincoln for president, 1864
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The Declaration of Independence, 1776 181
Photo of immigrant children at Angel Island, San Francisco Bay
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