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1st grade · Social Studies · Unit 10 of 10

School & Travel Long Ago

Then and now

What your child practices

How schools and communities worked in the past, and how people traveled by wagon, stagecoach, sailing ship and steam train before cars and airplanes.

California Content Standards learning standard: 1.4.1; 1.4.2 · the structure of schools and communities in the past and transportation methods of earlier days

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 is faster?

    • a horse
    • walking
    • a sailboat
    • an airplane

  2. Question 2

    What is the same about school long ago and today?

    • Children learn to read
    • There are no books
    • There is one room
    • Kids use slates

  3. Question 3

    Which came first?

    • the horse and wagon
    • the electric car
    • the car
    • the airplane

  4. Question 4

    Long ago, people lit their homes with…

    • phone lights
    • neon signs
    • candles and oil lamps
    • light bulbs

  5. Question 5

    A photo from long ago shows a horse on Main Street. What has changed?

    • Main Street is gone
    • Cars drive there now
    • Horses fly
    • Nothing

  6. Question 6

    Long ago, a mail carrier on horseback rode for the…

    • Pony Express
    • Space Station
    • fire truck
    • school bus

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