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Kindergarten · Social Studies · Unit 7 of 10

Places Near Me

Buildings, nature and what they are for

What your child practices

Naming places in the community (library, park, school, hospital), what they are used for, and whether they are natural or built.

Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards benchmark: K.3.14.1; K.3.17.1 · physical and human features in the community, and a favorite place

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Some places are nature: hills, lakes, meadows.
  2. Some places are built by people: stores, bridges, libraries.
  3. Each place has a job, like a store for food.

Example: Is a bridge nature or built? People made the bridge. Things people make are built. Answer: built

Places Near Me in Minnesota

In the Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards, this is unit 7 of 10 in Kindergarten Social Studies, after My First Maps and before Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow.

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

    Who works at a school?

    🧑‍🏫
    • only farmers
    • teachers
    • only pilots

  2. Question 2

    Who delivers letters and packages?

    📬
    • a dentist
    • a mail carrier
    • a baker

  3. Question 3

    Where do people go when they are sick or hurt?

    • 🌳park
    • 🏥hospital
    • 🥖bakery

  4. Question 4

    Nature or built? Tap a place, then its basket.

    Sort into: 🌿 Nature · 🏗️ Built

    • 🏞️lake
    • 🏪store
    • 🌉bridge
    • 🌲forest
    • 📚library
    • ⛰️hill

  5. Question 5

    Which one is a natural place in a community?

    • 🏞️a river
    • 🚏a bus stop
    • 🏪a store

  6. Question 6

    Which one is a built place in a community?

    • 📮a post office
    • 🏞️a lake
    • 🌲a forest

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