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1st grade · Social Studies · Unit 5 of 8

Respect & Inclusion

Sharing, turns and caring for places

What your child practices

Sharing, taking turns, listening, including others, and showing respect for people, belongings and the places we share.

Alaska content standards learning standard: SS.1.2.7.1; SS.1.4.7.1 · equality and fairness, and comparing different points of view

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Sharing means letting others use something too.
  2. Include everyone. Ask a new friend to teach you a word.
  3. Respect places: pick up litter, be gentle with plants.

Example: Everyone in class helps tidy up. What is this called? Everyone works together. Working together is cooperating. Answer: cooperating

Respect & Inclusion in Alaska

In the Alaska content standards, this is unit 5 of 8 in 1st grade Social Studies, after Changes in My Life and before Community Services.

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 way of caring for the school garden is respectful?

    🌻
    • Walk across the beds
    • Water the plants gently
    • Pull up the flowers

  2. Question 2

    Which one is a way to be kind to a new classmate?

    🤝
    • Laugh at them
    • Invite them to play
    • Ignore them

  3. Question 3

    You both want the computer. Which is inclusive?

    • Push them away
    • Hide the mouse
    • Take turns or work together

  4. Question 4

    A friend's lunch is new to you. What can you say?

    🍱
    • Yuck!
    • That is gross.
    • That looks interesting. What is it?

  5. Question 5

    Why do we ask before touching someone's art?

    🎨
    • It is magic
    • It belongs to them
    • It is boring

  6. Question 6

    Everyone in class helps tidy up. What is this called?

    • cooperating
    • fighting
    • sleeping

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