Curio Class
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Shaping Our Week
Follow a family through one week and tap each group that shapes it: the city council's bus routes, the company where a parent works, that parent's union, the food bank, the youth soccer league; remove one and see what changes.
- Play style
- Explorer
- Module
- Shaping Our Week: Government, companies, unions and nonprofits in daily life
- Grade
- Grade 8 · Social Studies
- Standards
D2.Civ.6.6-8D2.Eco.9.6-8
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