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    It's Your World!: A Crash Course in Social Studies
    It's Your World!: A Crash Course in Social Studies
    It's Your World!: A Crash Course in Social Studies
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    It's Your World!: A Crash Course in Social Studies

    By Kathiann M. Kowalski

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    Take a crash course in middle school social studies, and see how geography, history, and government can be powerful tools in todays world. Go global with geography at the grocery store. See how social media and government go together. You'll soon discover that social studies are the real deal for real life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCapstone Young Readers
    Release dateJul 1, 2014
    ISBN9781491429334
    It's Your World!: A Crash Course in Social Studies
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    Kathiann M. Kowalski

    Kathiann M. Kowalski has spent fifteen years practicing law. She holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Hofstra University. She received her law degree from Harvard Law School, where she was a member of the Harvard Law Review.

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      It's Your World! - Kathiann M. Kowalski

      Table of Contents

      WEAVING IT ALL TOGETHER

      CHAPTER 1

      WHERE IN THE WORLD?

      CHAPTER 2

      THE OLD, OLD WORLD

      CHAPTER 3

      THEN AND NOW

      CHAPTER 4

      A WORLD VIEW

      CHAPTER 5

      WE THE PEOPLE

      CHAPTER 6

      EQUALITY FOR ALL

      GLOSSARY

      READ MORE

      INTERNET SITES

      INDEX

      WEAVING IT ALL TOGETHER

      You’re a social person. You have family and friends. You belong to clubs. You go to school. You belong to bigger groups too—such as your family, school, community, and country. Your experiences with all these groups shape who you are, as does the time in which you live.

      Do you have older friends or siblings on Facebook, Twitter, or another social network? Comments, posts, and pictures link them to their friends’ groups and even to their friends’ friends.

      Other links connect you to more groups. For example, your family spans generations. Maybe you never knew your great-grandparents or their parents. Yet their choices affected your family and where you are today.

      Social studies is about all sorts of groups throughout time and space. But don’t think social studies is just ancient history or only about people in faraway places. And don’t panic about memorizing lots of dates and names. Instead, focus on how social studies affects your life every day. After all, savvy girls want the big picture!

      Social studies is made up of many subjects, including history, geography, economics, and civics and government, among others. These different subjects are all connected to each other. To see how, think about your favorite pair of jeans. First, people grew the cotton. China, India, and the United States are world leaders in growing cotton. Geography tells you something about where those countries are located and what natural resources they have. For cotton to grow, an area needs fertile soil, sufficient water, and a warm growing season.

      The factories that wove the cotton fabric and sewed the jeans may have been in other countries. Check the label, and use a world map to locate the country where your jeans were made.

      History helps you learn when and why jeans were invented and how they have changed over the years. History also helps you understand how the cotton industry affected people’s lives and contributed to slavery in the United States. History helps you understand the people who made your jeans and their traditions.

      Civics and government affect how those people live and their rights as workers. What freedoms do they have? Do they get to choose their government leaders?

      Economics deals with all sorts of money issues. Why would a company import your jeans from another country? How much did you pay for the jeans? How much did the cotton farmers earn? What did the factory workers earn? Who else made money?

      Just like the threads on your jeans, different strands of social studies are woven together. They all come together to affect our world—and you!

      CHAPTER 1

      WHERE IN THE WORLD?

      Geography deals with an area’s physical features and how they affect people’s social, political, cultural, and economic lives. It can affect the foods they eat, the jobs they have, and even their hobbies! For example, you might play

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