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1st grade · Social Studies · Unit 8 of 15

School & Travel Long Ago

Then and now

What your child practices

How schools and communities worked in the past, and how people traveled by wagon, stagecoach, sailing ship and steam train before cars and airplanes.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 1.15(A); 1.15(B) · how technology changed family life, school and travel

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Long ago, there were no cars or fridges.
  2. People traveled in wagons and on sailing ships.
  3. Grandparents can tell us about long ago.

Example: Long ago, how did people cross oceans? There were no planes. Wind pushed big ships. Answer: on sailing ships

School & Travel Long Ago in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 8 of 15 in 1st grade Social Studies, after Changes in My Life and before Social Studies Detectives.

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

    Long ago, a stagecoach carried…

    • only toys
    • airplanes
    • boats
    • people and mail

  2. Question 2

    Which school item is from long ago?

    • an e-reader
    • a school bell rung by hand
    • a laptop
    • a smartboard

  3. Question 3

    Long ago, many people made their own…

    • cars
    • clothes
    • phones
    • TVs

  4. Question 4

    Long ago, people crossed oceans on…

    • rockets
    • sailing ships
    • airplanes
    • speedboats

  5. Question 5

    What has changed about getting water?

    • Today water comes from a tap
    • Today we use a well
    • Water is not needed
    • Wells are in every kitchen

  6. Question 6

    Which is a reason transportation changed?

    • Roads vanished
    • People invented new machines
    • People stopped moving
    • Horses disappeared

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