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Kindergarten · Science · Unit 4 of 8

Care for Our Earth

Reduce, reuse, recycle and respect nature

What your child practices

Show how your family reuses and recycles. Spend time outside, and talk about taking only what you need and leaving nature as you found it.

Alaska content standards learning standard: K-ESS3-3 · ways people can reduce their impact on the land, water, air and living things nearby

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Reuse things, like a jar, and recycle cans.
  2. Pick up litter and turn off the tap.
  3. Take only what you need from nature.

Example: Does dropping litter help or hurt nature? Litter makes the land dirty. That hurts nature. Answer: hurt

Care for Our Earth in Alaska

In the Alaska content standards, this is unit 4 of 8 in Kindergarten Science, after Weather & Seasons and before Sun & Shade.

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

    You see a plant bending. What is a kind thing to do?

    🪴
    • step on it
    • water it gently
    • pull it out

  2. Question 2

    Which word means using something again?

    ♻️
    • reuse
    • break
    • throw

  3. Question 3

    Which is a way to show respect for animals outside?

    🦌
    • feed them junk food
    • chase them
    • watch them from far away

  4. Question 4

    Which helps reduce waste at lunch?

    🥪
    • a wrapper for every item
    • a lunch box you can use again
    • a new plastic bag each day

  5. Question 5

    You finish a snack. What do you do with the wrapper?

    • put it in the bin
    • drop it on the grass
    • toss it in a puddle

  6. Question 6

    Helps nature or hurts nature? Tap a picture, then its basket.

    Sort into: 💚 Helps · 💔 Hurts

    • 🧹pick up litter
    • 📄waste paper
    • 🫙reuse a jar
    • 🗑️drop litter
    • ♻️recycle a can
    • 🌿break a branch

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