Unit 4 ~~ People Working Together ~ This unit analyzes how and why people in different communities work alone and together. 

Main Ideas:                                        

1. People work together to make products and provide services
2. People choose the products and services they will buy.
3. People trade with each other.
4. Products and services get to market in different ways.

Vocabulary Games

Suggested Independent Reading

Amish Home by Raymond Bial
Eyewitness Books: Money by Joe Cribb
Marge's Diner  by Gail Gibbons
Market Days: From Marked to Market Around the World  by Madhur Jaffrey
How a Shirt Grew in a Field by Marguerita Rudolph
Brainstorm! The Stories of Twenty American Kid Inventors by Tom Tucker

Suggestions to Extend and Enrich this Unit 

Discover how a camel's adaptations help it survive.
Find out how silk is formed and how it is used.
Write a few sentences to convince people to buy a new product or a new service. Think about a familiar tune to use with your jingle.

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