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1st grade · Social Studies · Unit 8 of 8

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.

Alaska content standards learning standard: SS.1.2.23.1 · how communities and daily life change over time

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 Alaska

In the Alaska content standards, this is unit 8 of 8 in 1st grade Social Studies, after Earning, Saving & Sharing.

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: Alaska Department of Education and Early Development

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

    Steam trains carried people across the country after…

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

  2. Question 2

    Long ago, people kept food cold with…

    • a freezer
    • ice
    • an air conditioner
    • a refrigerator

  3. Question 3

    Long ago, people traveled across land in…

    • wagons pulled by horses
    • jets
    • cars
    • electric buses

  4. Question 4

    Long ago, many schools had only…

    • computers in every room
    • one room
    • a gym and a pool
    • ten floors

  5. Question 5

    Long ago, a stagecoach carried…

    • boats
    • people and mail
    • only toys
    • airplanes

  6. Question 6

    Which is a reason transportation changed?

    • People stopped moving
    • Roads vanished
    • People invented new machines
    • Horses disappeared

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