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1st grade · Social Studies · Unit 4 of 8

Changes in My Life

Big events and putting them in order

What your child practices

Big life events (a new sibling, a move, starting school), how people's experiences are alike and different, and ordering events as a simple timeline.

Alaska content standards learning standard: SS.1.1.23.1 · making a personal timeline of events in order

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Your life has big events, like learning to walk.
  2. Put events in order: what came first, next, last?
  3. Changes can feel big. Friends and family can help.

Example: Which came first: walking or crawling? Babies crawl before they can stand. Then they learn to walk. Answer: crawling

Changes in My Life in Alaska

In the Alaska content standards, this is unit 4 of 8 in 1st grade Social Studies, after My Community and before Respect & Inclusion.

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

    Which event might be special for your family?

    • a rainy afternoon
    • a birthday party
    • a nap

  2. Question 2

    A photo album helps a family…

    • stop time
    • lose things
    • remember special days

  3. Question 3

    Ana started swimming lessons. What did she start to learn?

    🏊
    • a new street
    • a new color
    • a new skill

  4. Question 4

    We keep photos of big events. What do they help us do?

    • forget everything
    • remember what happened
    • fly

  5. Question 5

    Put these events from your life in order. What came first?

    • 🎒Kindergarten
    • 🚶Learn to walk
    • 👶Baby
    • 📚Grade 1

  6. Question 6

    A new baby comes home. What changes for the family?

    • Nobody changes
    • Everyone helps care for the baby
    • The house disappears

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