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Kindergarten · Social Studies · Unit 8 of 13

Places Near Me

Buildings, nature and what they are for

What your child practices

Naming places in the community (library, park, school, hospital), what they are used for, and whether they are natural or built.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: K.8 · land and water features in the places around us

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Some places are nature: hills, lakes, meadows.
  2. Some places are built by people: stores, bridges, libraries.
  3. Each place has a job, like a store for food.

Example: Is a bridge nature or built? People made the bridge. Things people make are built. Answer: built

Places Near Me in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 8 of 13 in Kindergarten Social Studies, after My First Maps and before Days, Weeks & Months.

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

    Who keeps our teeth healthy?

    🦷
    • a bus driver
    • a pilot
    • a dentist

  2. Question 2

    Where can you borrow books?

    • 📚library
    • 🚒fire station
    • 🥖bakery

  3. Question 3

    Where can you slide and swing?

    • 🛝park
    • 🏥hospital
    • 🛒grocery store

  4. Question 4

    Where does a fire truck come from?

    • 🚒fire station
    • 📚library
    • 🏫school

  5. Question 5

    Who delivers letters and packages?

    📬
    • a baker
    • a mail carrier
    • a dentist

  6. Question 6

    A place in your community has ice, and people skate. It is a…

    • ⛸️rink
    • 🥖bakery
    • 🏦bank

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