Once upon a time in a small, cozy classroom, a group of fourth-graders sat with their "Okruzhaiushchii Mir" workbooks open to a very special page:

The hero of our story, a boy named Misha, took his compass. He knew that on a map, North is always at the top. He stood by the school gates and oriented his workbook. "Okay," he whispered, "the old oak tree is to the East, and the river is to the South." Step 2: The Language of Symbols

A for the narrow footpath leading to the forest. Step 3: Shrinking the World (The Scale)

The hardest part was the scale. The workbook task said: 1 cm = 100 meters ."If the meadow is 300 meters long," Misha calculated, "I only need to draw a line 3 centimeters long!"Slowly, the giant world outside began to fit perfectly onto the flat, white page of the rabochaia tetrad. The Discovery