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1st grade · Social Studies · Unit 8 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.

Maine Learning Results learning standard: History 1 · school, travel and daily life long ago compared with today

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Long ago, there were no cars or fridges.
  2. People traveled in wagons and on sailing ships.
  3. Grandparents can tell us about long ago.

Example: Long ago, how did people cross oceans? There were no planes. Wind pushed big ships. Answer: on sailing ships

School & Travel Long Ago in Maine

In the Maine Learning Results, this is unit 8 of 10 in 1st grade Social Studies, after Earning, Saving & Sharing and before Maine's Symbols & Leaders.

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: Maine Department of Education

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

    What is the same about school long ago and today?

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

  2. Question 2

    Long ago, many people made their own…

    • clothes
    • cars
    • phones
    • TVs

  3. Question 3

    Long ago, children wrote on small…

    • slates
    • laptops
    • tablets with screens
    • whiteboards

  4. Question 4

    Steam trains carried people across the country after…

    • rockets launched
    • cars were made
    • airports opened
    • railroads were built

  5. Question 5

    Long ago, people lit their homes with…

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

  6. Question 6

    Which came last?

    • the steam train
    • the sailing ship
    • the airplane
    • the wagon

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