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Kindergarten · Science · Unit 5 of 9

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: 0E.1.1.1.2 · ways a person can use fewer natural resources

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 Minnesota

In the Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards, this is unit 5 of 9 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: 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 does it mean to reduce waste?

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

  2. Question 2

    Which word means using something again?

    ♻️
    • throw
    • reuse
    • break

  3. Question 3

    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

  4. Question 4

    Where does an empty paper box go to be recycled?

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

  5. Question 5

    Which is a way to reuse?

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

  6. Question 6

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

    Sort into: 💚 Helps · 💔 Hurts

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

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