Grade 1 · Science · Unit 4 of 6
A Healthy Environment
Clean air, clean water, less waste
What your child practises
Living and non-living things in a natural place, why clean air, water and food matter, and simple ways to reduce, reuse and recycle.
Nova Scotia Curriculum learning outcome: Life Science: Needs of living things · how living things and the environment depend on each other
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
If all the trees in a forest were gone, what would happen?
🌲- Nothing
- Many animals would lose their homes
- More snow
Many animals would lose their homes
Hint: Many living things depend on trees.
Question 2
Living or non-living in a pond? Tap, then tap a basket.
Sort into: 🌱 Living · 🪨 Non-living
- 🦆duck
- 🏖️sand
- 🪨rock
- 🪷water lily
- 🫧air bubbles
- 🐟fish
🌱 Living: duck, water lily, fish · 🪨 Non-living: sand, rock, air bubbles
Hint: Living things grow, need food and air, and have young.
Question 3
Which one makes a healthy environment?
- clean air and water
- lots of litter
- dirty water
clean air and water
Hint: Living things need clean air and water.
Question 4
What does reduce mean?
- Hide it
- Use more
- Use less
Use less
Hint: Reducing means making less waste.
Question 5
In a garden, bees help flowers by…
🐝- carrying pollen
- eating them all
- making the soil hot
carrying pollen
Hint: Living things help each other in nature.
Question 6
What does reuse mean?
🔄- Throw it away
- Use it again
- Break it
Use it again
Hint: Reusing means using something more than once.