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1st grade · Social Studies · Unit 10 of 15

School & Travel Long Ago

Then and now

What your child practices

How schools and communities worked in the past, and how people traveled by wagon, stagecoach, sailing ship and steam train before cars and airplanes.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: 1.13 · comparing school, travel and technology long ago and today

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Long ago, there were no cars or fridges.
  2. People traveled in wagons and on sailing ships.
  3. Grandparents can tell us about long ago.

Example: Long ago, how did people cross oceans? There were no planes. Wind pushed big ships. Answer: on sailing ships

School & Travel Long Ago in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 10 of 15 in 1st grade Social Studies, after Social Studies Detectives and before Alabama on the Map.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Long ago, many towns had a well for…

    • phones
    • games
    • water
    • movies

  2. Question 2

    Long ago, many people made their own…

    • TVs
    • clothes
    • cars
    • phones

  3. Question 3

    Who can tell you about school long ago?

    • a robot toy
    • a puppy
    • a baby
    • a grandparent

  4. Question 4

    Long ago, a stagecoach carried…

    • people and mail
    • airplanes
    • boats
    • only toys

  5. Question 5

    Steam trains carried people across the country after…

    • cars were made
    • airports opened
    • railroads were built
    • rockets launched

  6. Question 6

    Why did people build roads and railroads?

    • To travel and trade faster
    • To slow down
    • To stop farming
    • To hide

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