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Kindergarten · Social Studies · Unit 4 of 9

Places Near Me

Buildings, nature and what they are for

What your child practices

Naming places in the community (library, park, school, hospital), what they are used for, and whether they are natural or built.

Alaska content standards learning standard: SS.K.1.18.1; SS.K.3.16.1 · simple maps of familiar places and the land around the school

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Some places are nature: hills, lakes, meadows.
  2. Some places are built by people: stores, bridges, libraries.
  3. Each place has a job, like a store for food.

Example: Is a bridge nature or built? People made the bridge. Things people make are built. Answer: built

Places Near Me in Alaska

In the Alaska content standards, this is unit 4 of 9 in Kindergarten Social Studies, after Needs & Wants and before Fair & Kind.

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

    Who works at a school?

    🧑‍🏫
    • teachers
    • only farmers
    • only pilots

  2. Question 2

    Where do people go when they are sick or hurt?

    • 🏥hospital
    • 🌳park
    • 🥖bakery

  3. Question 3

    Where can you slide and swing?

    • 🛒grocery store
    • 🏥hospital
    • 🛝park

  4. Question 4

    A place in your community has ice, and people skate. It is a…

    • ⛸️rink
    • 🏦bank
    • 🥖bakery

  5. Question 5

    Where can you go to learn?

    • 🏦bank
    • 🏫school
    • 🏊pool

  6. Question 6

    Which one is a built place in a community?

    • 🏞️a lake
    • 📮a post office
    • 🌲a forest

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