community

Demonstrates how individual people, places, and things combine to form a community. It allows children to view the works in segments and then experience the wonderment and value of the community as a whole.

Describes ways of using one's community as a resource for various kinds of studies; how to make and use a resource file; how to conduct polls, surveys, and interviews; and how to research a community's history.

Children identify the rules they follow at home, at school and in the community. Describes how rules and laws protect people's safety, health and property as well as the environment. Discusses the roles of elected officials, town councils and town meetings in running a community and creating laws. Shows how police officers enforce laws and judges determine how a person should be punished for breaking a law.

A girl explores the people and places in Mini Town.

Explore how the post office enables people to communicate with others in their own community and beyond. See a real post office, follow what happens to a letter once it is mailed, and see what a typical day is like for a mail carrier.

Highlights the different ways people move about their community. Explore how transportation can be similar, yet different across communities, and how the form of transportation people choose depends on how far they need to go and where they live. A close-up look at how workers around town use different forms of transportation to get to their jobs.

Definition of a community as where people live, work, learn and play, whether a big city, a small rural town, or in between. Discover things in common, such as local businesses, schools, city hall and the library, as well as how communities may differ. See the people who work hard to make neighborhoods and communities a good and safe place to live, and learn one's part in a community.

With punch-out play figures and flaps to open.