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1st grade · Social Studies · Unit 2 of 10

Our Land

Nature, buildings and caring

What your child practices

Natural and human-made features, how the land shapes how we live, and caring for it by reducing, reusing and recycling.

Maine Learning Results learning standard: Geography 2 · how the land, water and weather around a community affect the people who live there

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Natural things come from nature: trees, oceans, flowers.
  2. People make things like houses, roads and schools.
  3. We help nature when we recycle and pick up litter.

Example: Where should an empty plastic bottle go? Plastic bottles can be made into new things. So they go in the recycling bin. Answer: recycling bin

Our Land in Maine

In the Maine Learning Results, this is unit 2 of 10 in 1st grade Social Studies, after Maps and before My Community.

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

    Is it natural or made by people? Tap an item, then tap its basket.

    Sort into: 🌿 natural · 🔨 made by people

    • 🪨rock
    • 🌳tree
    • 🏠house
    • 🌉bridge
    • 🌊ocean
    • 🏫school

  2. Question 2

    Where should a candy wrapper go?

    • 🗑️garbage can
    • 🛣️on the sidewalk
    • 🦆in the pond

  3. Question 3

    What does reuse mean?

    • 🔁use something again
    • 🗑️throw it away
    • 💥break it

  4. Question 4

    Where it snows a lot, what do people need?

    ❄️
    • 🩱swimsuits
    • 👡sandals
    • 🧥warm coats and boots

  5. Question 5

    What can old paper be recycled into?

    ♻️
    • 🍎apples
    • 🪨rocks
    • 📄new paper

  6. Question 6

    What does reduce mean?

    • 🗑️use it once and toss it
    • ⬆️use more
    • ⬇️use less

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