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1st grade · Science · Unit 2 of 11

Objects & Structures

Jobs, materials and fasteners

What your child practices

Structures that hold up a load, what everyday objects are for, how fasteners join things, and where materials such as wood and wool come from.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 1.6(C) · objects as systems of parts, and the materials they are made from

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. A structure holds things up, like a house or a bridge.
  2. Objects have jobs. Boots protect your feet.
  3. Glue, tape and buttons hold things together.

Example: Which one is a structure: a house or a sock? A house stands up and holds a roof. Answer: a house

Objects & Structures in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 2 of 11 in 1st grade Science, after Length, Area & Weight and before Living Things.

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: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

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

    Which one can hold your shoe closed?

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    • a straw
    • laces
    • a sponge

  2. Question 2

    Which one fastens a button on a coat?

    • a rock
    • a magnet
    • a thread

  3. Question 3

    A tent has a frame. What does the frame do?

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    • makes it sing
    • holds it up
    • keeps it cold

  4. Question 4

    What are boots made to do?

    • tell time
    • protect your feet
    • give light

  5. Question 5

    Where does wood come from?

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    • trees
    • oceans
    • clouds

  6. Question 6

    Where does wool come from?

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    • sheep
    • trees
    • fish

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