Very Busy Firehouse

- Kids find these familiar community institutions endlessly fascinating. What child hasn't toyed with the idea of being a police officer or a firefighter at least once? - Format includes large color photographs, easy-to-read fonts, and simple interior design. - Series features include vocabulary preview and review pages plus special backmatter pages that invite readers to think further on the study topics. Curriculum Standards: Grades K-8 Social Studies Standards People. Places, & Environments: III - Describe how people create places that reflect ideas, wants, needs as they design homes, playgrounds, classrooms, and the like - Examine the interaction of human beings and their physical environment, the use of land, building of cities in selected locales. - Consider existing uses and proposed new uses of resources in home, school, and the community Individuals, Groups, & Institutions: V - Identify examples of institutions and describe the interactions of people with institutions - Identify examples of tension between individuals and institutions - Give examples of the role of institutions in furthering both continuity and change - Show how groups and institutions work to meet individual needs and promote the common goodSweeney, Alyse is the author of 'Very Busy Firehouse', published 2006 under ISBN 9780531168400 and ISBN 0531168409.