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1st grade · Social Studies · Unit 7 of 15

Changes in My Life

Big events and putting them in order

What your child practices

Big life events (a new sibling, a move, starting school), how people's experiences are alike and different, and ordering events as a simple timeline.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 1.17(A) · putting the events of a child's life in order on a timeline of past, present and future

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Your life has big events, like learning to walk.
  2. Put events in order: what came first, next, last?
  3. Changes can feel big. Friends and family can help.

Example: Which came first: walking or crawling? Babies crawl before they can stand. Then they learn to walk. Answer: crawling

Changes in My Life in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 7 of 15 in 1st grade Social Studies, after Respect & Inclusion and before School & Travel Long Ago.

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

    Amir's family moved to a new town. What is new?

    🚚
    • his home and neighbors
    • his birth date
    • his name

  2. Question 2

    Sam is 6 now. How old was he last year?

    • 5
    • 7
    • 4

  3. Question 3

    Which came first?

    👶
    • crawling
    • walking
    • running a race

  4. Question 4

    Zoe and Kenji both started school this year. What is the same?

    • They sit in the same chair
    • They are the same age exactly
    • They both began something new

  5. Question 5

    Starting school is a big change. What can help?

    • hiding
    • meeting your teacher and new friends
    • staying home forever

  6. Question 6

    Which is a big event in a family?

    • breakfast
    • a Tuesday
    • a new baby is born

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