This book is unique in that it gives children a "snapshot" view of 43 children from around the world. The children live in places as diverse as New Jersey, Mongolia, and Argentina. Children from industrialized countries, developing nations, busy cities, rural communities, tribal cultures, and more are included. The book is divided roughly by continent (North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Southeast Asia/Australasia), and then unique children from each region get a one or two-page spread to tell about their lives. The children are all shown with their families. Although most have traditional family situations, the book was updated in 2016, and there are now several single-parent families, a divorced couple, a polygamist family (p. 42), and one child's sister is noted as having a wife (p. 14). The book includes tons of photographs and shows and describes their family, home, clothes, prized possessions, food, friends, favorite games, chores, and other aspects of their daily life. Most of the information is given in the captions of the photos and an intro about how old the child is, where they live, and how the family supports itself. The kids are 6-11 years old, and while they have a large variety of backgrounds, beliefs, and cultures, it is interesting to see how much they have in common. 3-11 children are included from every region. 80 pgs, hc. ~ Rachel
Children Just Like Me
Description
A favorite in classrooms, libraries, and homes, Children Just Like Me is a comprehensive view of international cultures, exploring diverse backgrounds from Argentina to New Zealand to China to Israel. With this brand new edition, children will learn about their peers around the world through engaging photographs and understandable text laid out in DK’s distinctive style.
Highlighting 36 different countries, Children Just Like Me profiles 44 children and their daily lives. From rural farms to busy cities to riverboats, this celebration of children around the world shows the many ways children are different and the many ways they are the same, no matter where they live.
Meet Bolat, an eight-year-old from Kazakhstan who likes to cycle, play with his pet dogs, and play the dromba; Joaquin from New Jersey who enjoys reading and spending time with his family, and whose favorite food is bacon; or Yaroslav from Moscow who likes to make robots. Daily routines, stories of friends and family, and dreams for the future are spoken directly from the children themselves, making the content appropriate and interesting to draw in young readers.
To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of this special project, all-new photography, maps, and facts give unique insight to children’s lives in our world today showing their homes, food, outfits, schools, families, and hobbies.
Galloping the Globe is a unit study centered around geography. It encourages a detailed look at a selection of countries from the six populated continents as well as the North and South Poles and Christmas around the world. Using the countries being studied geographically as the basic platform, the authors have included ideas and references, projects and activities for integrating Bible, people/history, science, literature, vocabulary, internet sources, maps & flags, cooking, music/art, games, puzzles, and crafts into the curriculum.
Galloping the Globe uses a student notebook approach, where the child will actually produce a notebook full of art projects, reports, biographies, geographic dictionary pages, and much more. This is intended to be something they can show to other people, reinforcing and reviewing what they have learned as they explain various facts to friends and family. This is a fairly flexible course, with a full study of every topic listed taking between 2-3 years to complete. You can also pick and choose projects to simply make this a year long course. While geography is the main focus of this unit study, it does a good job of including the resources needed to study the other subjects, too. Consumable work pages are reproducible and available digitally using a QR code inside the back of the book. Answers are included. Printable content include forms, activity sheets, maps, and flags. The guide is also available as a digital download. There are several recommended resources, which are used multiple times throughout the course. These resources include:
- Geography from A-Z: A Picture Glossary
- Children Just Like Me: A New Celebration of Children Around the World
- Missionary Stories with the Millers
- Maps & Globes
- Great for God: Missionaries Who Changed the World
- Eat Your Way Around the World
- Junior Classroom Atlas, 4th Edition
| Product Format: | Hardcover Book |
|---|---|
| Grades: | 1-5 |
| Brand: | Dorling Kindersley |
| ISBN: | 9781465453921 |
| Length in Inches: | 12.125 |
| Width in Inches: | 10.125 |
| Height in Inches: | 0.5 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 1.65 |