Students learn about their responsibilities as classmates while they explore ways to get along in school. In an Experiential Exercise, they discover the value of cooperating to complete a task.

Students discover the importance of learning from and accepting one another. In a Social Studies Skill Builder, students complete questionnaires that reveal their own interests and special talents. They then practice appropriate ways to talk and listen.

Students discover that they can make valuable contributions at school by helping others, respecting school property, being positive, and solving problems. In Response Group activities, they explore four situations that they might encounter at school and discuss the best ways to be good helpers.

Students learn what maps are and how to use them by listening to a story and creating a map of the story setting. In a Social Studies Skill Builder, they practice reading a classroom map, its key, and a compass rose.

Students compare schools of long ago to schools of today. In a Response Group activity, they view and read about school-related objects from the past, discussing their use.

Students learn about groups to which they may belong: school, family, and community. In a Social Studies Skill Builder, they identify and categorize different types of groups.

Students learn that all families are special in different ways. In a Writing for Understanding activity, students read about different family members, types of homes, and family activities. They then create a book to share how their own families are special.

Students learn what families need and want. In a Problem Solving Groupwork activity, students create triaramas (three-dimensional scenes) that depict what families would need and want on a camping trip, and then explain why selected items are needs or wants.

Students learn about ways family members care for each other. In a Response Group activity, they sort family pictures into three categories of caring for each other—helping each other, sharing knowledge, and spending time together.

Students learn about ways families change over time. In a Visual Discovery activity, they explore what happens when people grow older. They also learn some reasons why families change in size.

Students explore their own family traditions and learn about the traditions of others. The Experiential Exercise has students simulate celebrations from two different cultures.

Students explore their responsibilities as neighbors in a neighborhood. In a Problem Solving Groupwork activity, groups of four illustrate and assemble puzzles that show examples of actions good neighbors take.