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1st grade · Social Studies · Unit 7 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.

Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards benchmark: 1.3.14.1 · the features that make a place a region

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 Minnesota

In the Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards, this is unit 7 of 10 in 1st grade Social Studies, after Maps and before Needs and Wants.

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

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

    Sort into: 🌿 natural · 🔨 made by people

    • 🚲bike
    • 🌷flower
    • 🏫school
    • 🛣️road
    • 🪨rock
    • 🌊ocean

  2. Question 2

    People cut down some trees to make…

    🌲
    • 💧water
    • 🪵wood for houses
    • 🪨rocks

  3. Question 3

    Does it help or harm nature? Tap an item, then tap its basket.

    Sort into: 💚 helps nature · 💔 harms nature

    • 🚰leave the tap running
    • 🧤pick up litter
    • 🪵break branches off trees
    • 🛍️reuse a bag
    • 🌱plant a tree
    • 🥀pick all the wildflowers

  4. Question 4

    Where should an empty plastic bottle go?

    • 🌱on the grass
    • ♻️recycling bin
    • 🌊in the lake

  5. Question 5

    What does reuse mean?

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

  6. Question 6

    Why should we leave wildflowers growing?

    🌼
    • 🏋️flowers are too heavy to pick
    • 🐝bees and other animals need them
    • ⏱️flowers grow back in one minute

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