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1st grade · Science · Unit 8 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.

Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards benchmark: 1E.4.2.1.1; 1E.4.1.1.1 · how people change the land, water and air, and ways to lessen that impact

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Reuse things, like drawing on both sides of paper.
  2. Recycle cans. Pick up litter.
  3. Watch wild animals from far away.

Example: Is breaking a branch helping or hurting nature? The tree gets hurt. Answer: hurting

Care for Our Earth in Minnesota

In the Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards, this is unit 8 of 8 in 1st grade Science, after Signals Far Away.

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: Minnesota Department of Education (MDE)

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

    Where does litter belong?

    🧹
    • in a river
    • on the ground
    • in a garbage bin

  2. Question 2

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

    Sort into: 💚 Helps · 💔 Hurts

    • 🌿break a branch
    • 📄waste paper
    • ♻️recycle a can
    • 🚰leave the tap on
    • 🌳plant a tree
    • 🧹pick up litter

  3. Question 3

    Which is a way to reuse?

    📄
    • tear paper into bits and drop it
    • draw on both sides of paper
    • throw the paper away right away

  4. Question 4

    Which one can go in a recycling bin?

    • 🍌a banana peel
    • 🤧a dirty tissue
    • 🥫a clean can

  5. Question 5

    You see a plant bending. What is a kind thing to do?

    🪴
    • water it gently
    • step on it
    • pull it out

  6. Question 6

    Why should we protect nature?

    • it is boring
    • nobody lives there
    • plants, animals and people need it

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