Kindergarten · Social Studies · Unit 4 of 4
Caring for Nature
What would happen if it changed?
What your child practises
Thinking about what happens when a local place changes, and simple ways to care for plants, animals, water and the land.
Saskatchewan Curriculum outcome: RWK.2 · caring for the environment through daily actions
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
Which is a way to show respect for animals outside?
- Throw stones at them
- Chase them
- Watch them quietly
Show answer
Watch them quietly
Hint: We can look at wildlife from a distance and be gentle.
Question 2
Helps nature or hurts nature? Tap, then tap a basket.
Sort into: 💚 Helps · 💔 Hurts
- 🌱planting a tree
- ♻️recycling paper
- 💦leaving the water on
- 🪵breaking tree branches
- 🚰turning off the tap
- 🎨pouring paint in a pond
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💚 Helps: planting a tree, recycling paper, turning off the tap · 💔 Hurts: leaving the water on, breaking tree branches, pouring paint in a pond
Hint: Think: is it kind to plants, animals and water?
Question 3
What can you do with a plastic bottle you finish?
- Put it in the recycling bin
- Hide it in a bush
- Leave it at the beach
Show answer
Put it in the recycling bin
Hint: Recycling helps keep nature clean.
Question 4
Put the plant's growing in order.
- 🌸A flower blooms
- 🪴A plant grows
- 🌱A sprout grows
- 🌰Plant a seed
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Plant a seed → A sprout grows → A plant grows → A flower blooms
Hint: A seed is planted, a sprout comes up, then a plant grows and makes flowers.
Question 5
What can you do with a paper you do not need?
♻️- Bury it in a garden
- Throw it in a river
- Put it in the recycling bin
Show answer
Put it in the recycling bin
Hint: Recycling paper helps trees.
Question 6
What can you do when you brush your teeth to save water?
🚰- Fill the sink with soap
- Leave the water running
- Turn off the tap
Show answer
Turn off the tap
Hint: Saving water helps the Earth.