The unit's instructional and assessment activities focus on the community. Specific attention is given to four spiraling questions pertaining to the individual, his alternatives, his initiation of change, and the results of change. Focus, materials, and objective for each activity are in Spanish and English; teacher instructions are in Spanish only. Content sources are stories, field trips, role playing, interviews, newspapers, pictures, small group presentations, and the child's own experiences and observations. Activities deal with the concepts of interdependence, cooperation, values, societal control, tradition, causality, power, conflict, differences, cultural change and modification. The child is made aware of the different skills needed to perform certain jobs in the community; how money is spent within his own community; the significance of written and unwritten laws; the changes (i.e., customs, people's roles, and physical changes) occurring in a community within a period of 50 years; the different groups that exert power in the community; how to exert influence in these groups; the different methods existing to influence and bring about favorable changes for the community; the modifications a person has to make when moving to a community where a different culture exists; the necessary skills to bring about certain changes; and the important role which values play in people's lives. (NQ)