Describes the different ways that people get around, including on foot, by train, and by boat, and discusses why people travel.

This lesson integrates academic vocabulary instruction into content-area lessons. Two easy-to-implement strategies for teaching academic vocabulary are integrated within the step-by-step, standards-based social studies lesson.

How We Get Around Town is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.K.9 and Literacy.L.K.1. Large color photographs of transportation methods such as walking, biking, and driving are paired with descriptive text to demonstrate the many different ways that movement around a town can be accomplished. A graphic organizer in the back of the book reinforces the concept of walking, bicycling, driving a car, and driving a bus as civic transportation modes. This book should be paired with “Getting Around Our City” (9781448887224) from the Rosen Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.

How We Get Around Town is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.K.9 and Literacy.L.K.1. Large color photographs of transportation methods such as walking, biking, and driving are paired with descriptive text to demonstrate the many different ways that movement around a town can be accomplished. A graphic organizer in the back of the book reinforces the concept of walking, bicycling, driving a car, and driving a bus as civic transportation modes. This book should be paired with “Getting Around Our City” (9781448887224) from the Rosen Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.

Driving is a fact of life. We are all spending more and more time on the road, and traffic is an issue we face everyday. This book will make you think about it in a whole new light. We have always had a passion for cars and driving. Now Traffic offers us an exceptionally rich understanding of that passion. Vanderbilt explains why traffic jams form, outlines the unintended consequences of our attempts to engineer safety and even identifies the most common mistakes drivers make in parking lots. Based on exhaustive research and interviews with driving experts and traffic officials around the globe, Traffic gets under the hood of the quotidian activity of driving to uncover the surprisingly complex web of physical, psychological and technical factors that explain how traffic works.

How to build a transportation system to provide mobility for all Road to Nowhere exposes the flaws in Silicon Valley’s vision of the future: ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft to take us anywhere; electric cars to make them ‘green’; and automation to ensure transport is cheap and ubiquitous. Such promises are implausible and potentially dangerous. As Paris Marx shows, these technological visions are a threat to our ideas of what a society should be. Electric cars are not a silver bullet for sustainability, and autonomous vehicles won’t guarantee road safety. There will not be underground tunnels to eliminate traffic congestion, and micromobility services will not replace car travel any sooner than we will see the arrival of the long-awaited flying car. In response, Marx offers a vision for a more collective way of organizing transportation systems that considers the needs of poor, marginalized, and vulnerable people. The book argues that rethinking mobility can be the first step in a broader reimagining of how we design and live in our future cities. We must create streets that allow for social interaction and conviviality. We need reasons to get out of our cars and to use public means of transit determined by community needs rather than algorithmic control. Such decisions should be guided by the search for quality of life rather than for profit.

This series introduces young readers to the lives of children from many different countries and cultures. The topics included in each book are thought provoking and often challenging, and young readers will love finding out about the many different ways in which children around the world live their lives.