What is the first thing you must do before you can play a new game? You
must learn the rules. Rules let the players know what to do. If all the
players played the game their own way, the game would be all mixed up.
Rules are a way to keep things from getting mixed up. We need rules for
games. We also need rules to live by. Families have rules. Clubs have
rules. Sports teams have rules.
Very strong rules are called laws. Laws are made by the leaders of a
tribe, city, state, or country. We have police officers, judges, and
other people who see that laws are obeyed.
Some rules are not really rules. They are polite customs or ways of
behaving. Going to the end of a line, instead of cutting in, is a polite
custom.
Everywhere in the world, people have rules, laws, and polite customs
that work best for them. These rules, laws, and customs make it easier
to work and play and live together.
People making the laws in England more than 150 years ago.
Living Together
> A monarch butterfly caterpillar can live wherever there are milkweed > plants. Everywhere in the world, different kinds of plants and animals live together. Some animals eat plants they live…
Plants and animals need each other
Plants and animals trade with each other. They trade for things they both need to stay alive. Animals breathe air. The air gets changed inside their bodies. When they breathe the air out again…
Why animals live where they do
You eat bacon and cereal for breakfast. A bear eats fish and berries. Some kinds of animals eat only food from plants. Some kinds eat only other animals. Some animals eat both kinds of food. But each…
Nature’s clean-up crew
What becomes of the leaves that fall in the forest every autumn? What keeps them from piling up each year and covering the world with leaves? Each spring, millions of baby insects eat into the…
