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happen if
you didn't water the plants?
* Walk your children around your neighborhood or a park area
and have them clean up litter. How to dispose of waste is
a problem with a geographic dimension.
* Take your children to see some examples of how people have
shaped their environment: bonsai gardens, reservoirs,
terracing, or houses built into hills. Be sure to talk
with them about how and why these phenomena came to be.
* If you don't live on a farm, try to visit one. Many cities
and States maintain farm parks for just this purpose. Call
the division of parks in your area to find out where there
is one near you. Farmers use soil, water, and sun to grow
crops. They use ponds or streams for water, and build
fences to keep animals from running away.
Notice How You Adapt to Your Surroundings
People don't always change their environment. Sometimes
they are shaped by it. Often people must build roads around
mountains. They must build bridges over rivers. They construct
storm walls to keep the ocean from sweeping over beaches. In
some countries, people near coasts build their houses on stilts
to protect them from storm tides or periodic floods.
* Go camping. It is easy to understand why we wear long
pants and shoes when there are rocks and brambles on the
ground, and to realize the importance to early settlers of
being near water when you no longer have the convenience
of a faucet.
* If you go to a park, try to attend the nature shows that
many parks provide. You and your children may learn about
the local plants and wildlife and how the natural features
have changed over time.
Movement:
People Interacting on the Earth
People are scattered unevenly over the Earth. How do they
get from one place to another? What are the patterns of
movement of people, products, and information ? Regardless of
where we live, we rely upon each other for goods, services, and
information. In fact, most people interact with other places
almost every day. We depend on other places for the food,
clothes, and even items like the pencil and paper our children
use in school. We also share information with each other using
telephones, newspapers, radio, and television to bridge the
distances.
Travel in Different Ways
* Give your children opportunities to travel by car, bus,
bicycle, or on foot. Where you can, take other forms of
transportation such as airplanes, trains, subways,
ferries, barges, and horses and carriages.
* Use a map to look at various routes you can take when you
try different methods of transportation.
* Watch travel programs on television.
Follow the Movement of People and Things
* Play the license plate game. How many different States'
plates can you identify, and what, if anything, does the
license
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