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1st grade · Social Studies · Unit 2 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.

Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards benchmark: 1.4.20.1 · how people lived long ago, from historical sources

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 Minnesota

In the Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards, this is unit 2 of 10 in 1st grade Social Studies, after Changes in My Life 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: 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

    What has changed about getting water?

    • Wells are in every kitchen
    • Today we use a well
    • Water is not needed
    • Today water comes from a tap

  2. Question 2

    Which is a way to travel today?

    • a covered wagon
    • a stagecoach
    • a car
    • a horse and buggy

  3. Question 3

    Long ago, people crossed oceans on…

    • airplanes
    • sailing ships
    • rockets
    • speedboats

  4. Question 4

    Which came first?

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

  5. Question 5

    Long ago, people lit their homes with…

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

  6. Question 6

    Which is a reason transportation changed?

    • Horses disappeared
    • People invented new machines
    • People stopped moving
    • Roads vanished

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