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Note teacher instructional "Connection" boxes continue at the bottom of the Milestones Introductory California Teacher's Edition pages.

These offer explicit links from the page's content to content area curriculum—math, science, social studies, the arts, technology.

Connections are also made to home, to community, or to cultural topics, to connect the Unit and Chapter themes and topics to the students' lives.

The rationale is to make learning relevant to students' lives outside the classroom.