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Kindergarten · Science · Unit 4 of 8

Care for Our Earth

Reduce, reuse, recycle and respect nature

What your child practices

Show how your family reuses and recycles. Spend time outside, and talk about taking only what you need and leaving nature as you found it.

Maine Learning Results learning standard: K-ESS3-3 · ways people can reduce their impact on the land, water, air and living things nearby

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Reuse things, like a jar, and recycle cans.
  2. Pick up litter and turn off the tap.
  3. Take only what you need from nature.

Example: Does dropping litter help or hurt nature? Litter makes the land dirty. That hurts nature. Answer: hurt

Care for Our Earth in Maine

In the Maine Learning Results, this is unit 4 of 8 in Kindergarten Science, after Weather & Seasons and before Sun & Shade.

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

    Which helps reduce waste at lunch?

    🥪
    • a lunch box you can use again
    • a wrapper for every item
    • a new plastic bag each day

  2. Question 2

    Where does an empty paper box go to be recycled?

    • 🕳️a hole in the ground
    • ♻️recycling bin
    • 🛝the playground

  3. Question 3

    Which word means using something again?

    ♻️
    • throw
    • reuse
    • break

  4. Question 4

    You finish a snack. What do you do with the wrapper?

    • toss it in a puddle
    • put it in the bin
    • drop it on the grass

  5. Question 5

    What does it mean to reduce waste?

    🗑️
    • make more garbage
    • make less garbage
    • paint the garbage

  6. Question 6

    Helps nature or hurts nature? Tap a picture, then its basket.

    Sort into: 💚 Helps · 💔 Hurts

    • 🗑️drop litter
    • 🚰leave the tap on
    • 🧹pick up litter
    • 📄waste paper
    • ♻️recycle a can
    • 🫙reuse a jar

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