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1st grade · Social Studies · Unit 2 of 8

Our Land

Nature, buildings and caring

What your child practices

Natural and human-made features, how the land shapes how we live, and caring for it by reducing, reusing and recycling.

Alaska content standards learning standard: SS.1.1.16.1; SS.1.2.19.1 · how weather and the land affect people, and how they use it to meet their needs

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Natural things come from nature: trees, oceans, flowers.
  2. People make things like houses, roads and schools.
  3. We help nature when we recycle and pick up litter.

Example: Where should an empty plastic bottle go? Plastic bottles can be made into new things. So they go in the recycling bin. Answer: recycling bin

Our Land in Alaska

In the Alaska content standards, this is unit 2 of 8 in 1st grade Social Studies, after Maps and before My Community.

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

    How does the land help us live?

    • 🚫it gives us nothing
    • 🧸it only gives us toys
    • 🌾it gives us food, water and wood

  2. Question 2

    Where it snows a lot, what do people need?

    ❄️
    • 👡sandals
    • 🧥warm coats and boots
    • 🩱swimsuits

  3. Question 3

    Is it natural or made by people? Tap an item, then tap its basket.

    Sort into: 🌿 natural · 🔨 made by people

    • 🌳tree
    • 🏢tall building
    • 🚲bike
    • 🌷flower
    • ⛰️mountain
    • 🌉bridge

  4. Question 4

    Which one was made by people?

    • 🌳tree
    • 🛣️road
    • 🌊lake

  5. Question 5

    Does it help or harm nature? Tap an item, then tap its basket.

    Sort into: 💚 helps nature · 💔 harms nature

    • 🛍️reuse a bag
    • 🚶walk to school
    • 🥤drop litter
    • ♻️recycle
    • 💡leave lights on all day
    • 🪵break branches off trees

  6. Question 6

    Which one makes less garbage?

    • 🛍️a new plastic bag every day
    • 🍽️paper plates at every meal
    • 🍱a reusable lunch box

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