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1st grade · Social Studies · Unit 7 of 13

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.

New York State Learning Standards learning standard: 1.6a; 1.6b · the natural resources people depend on and how they change the land to meet their needs

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 New York

In the New York State Learning Standards, this is unit 7 of 13 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: New York State Education Department (NYSED)

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

    How did people change the land to grow food?

    • 🚜they made farms
    • 🌉they built bridges
    • ❄️they made it snow

  2. Question 2

    What does reuse mean?

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

  3. Question 3

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

    Sort into: 💚 helps nature · 💔 harms nature

    • 🚶walk to school
    • 🚰leave the tap running
    • 🌱plant a tree
    • ♻️recycle
    • 💡leave lights on all day
    • 🪵break branches off trees

  4. Question 4

    Where should a candy wrapper go?

    • 🗑️garbage can
    • 🦆in the pond
    • 🛣️on the sidewalk

  5. Question 5

    Which one was made by people?

    • 🌊lake
    • 🛣️road
    • 🌳tree

  6. Question 6

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

    Sort into: 🌿 natural · 🔨 made by people

    • 🏢tall building
    • 🪨rock
    • 🌷flower
    • 🚲bike
    • ⛰️mountain
    • 🏠house

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