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Kindergarten · Science · Unit 13 of 13

Care for Our Earth

Reduce, reuse, recycle and respect nature

What your child practices

Show how your family reuses and recycles. Spend time outside, and talk about taking only what you need and leaving nature as you found it.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: K.11 · ways people can lessen their impact on the land, water and living things nearby

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Reuse things, like a jar, and recycle cans.
  2. Pick up litter and turn off the tap.
  3. Take only what you need from nature.

Example: Does dropping litter help or hurt nature? Litter makes the land dirty. That hurts nature. Answer: hurt

Care for Our Earth in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 13 of 13 in Kindergarten Science, after Stormy Weather.

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

    Which helps reduce waste at lunch?

    🥪
    • a new plastic bag each day
    • a lunch box you can use again
    • a wrapper for every item

  2. Question 2

    Which one can go in a recycling bin?

    • 🥫a clean can
    • 🍌a banana peel
    • 🤧a dirty tissue

  3. Question 3

    Where does litter belong?

    🧹
    • in a river
    • in a garbage bin
    • on the ground

  4. Question 4

    You see a plant bending. What is a kind thing to do?

    🪴
    • step on it
    • pull it out
    • water it gently

  5. Question 5

    What does it mean to reduce waste?

    🗑️
    • paint the garbage
    • make less garbage
    • make more garbage

  6. Question 6

    Why should we protect nature?

    • nobody lives there
    • it is boring
    • plants, animals and people need it

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