Grade 1 · Social Studies · Unit 3 of 4
Our Land
Nature, buildings and caring
What your child practises
Natural and human-made features, how the land shapes how we live, and caring for it by reducing, reusing and recycling.
BC Curriculum learning standard: Natural and human-made features of the local environment; relationships between people and the environment; how the local environment shapes how people live
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
Does it help or harm nature? Tap an item, then tap its basket.
Sort into: 💚 helps nature · 💔 harms nature
- 🥀pick all the wildflowers
- 🚰leave the tap running
- 🧤pick up litter
- 💡leave lights on all day
- 🚶walk to school
- 🛍️reuse a bag
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💚 helps nature: pick up litter, walk to school, reuse a bag · 💔 harms nature: pick all the wildflowers, leave the tap running, leave lights on all day
Hint: Caring for the land, water and animals keeps our community healthy.
Question 2
Is it natural or made by people? Tap an item, then tap its basket.
Sort into: 🌿 natural · 🔨 made by people
- 🪨rock
- 🌳tree
- 🚲bike
- 🏫school
- 🌷flower
- 🛣️road
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🌿 natural: rock, tree, flower · 🔨 made by people: bike, school, road
Hint: Natural things come from nature. People build or make the other things.
Question 3
What can old paper be recycled into?
♻️- 🍎apples
- 📄new paper
- 🪨rocks
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📄 new paper
Hint: Old paper is mashed up and made into new paper. That's recycling!
Question 4
Where should a candy wrapper go?
- 🛣️on the sidewalk
- 🦆in the pond
- 🗑️garbage can
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🗑️ garbage can
Hint: Litter can hurt animals and make places messy. Put it in the garbage.
Question 5
Which one makes less garbage?
- 🍽️paper plates at every meal
- 🛍️a new plastic bag every day
- 🍱a reusable lunch box
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🍱 a reusable lunch box
Hint: Things you can use again and again make less garbage.
Question 6
Where it snows a lot, what do people need?
❄️- 🩱swimsuits
- 👡sandals
- 🧥warm coats and boots
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🧥 warm coats and boots
Hint: The weather where we live changes what we wear.