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1st grade · Social Studies · Unit 2 of 15

Our Land

Nature, buildings and caring

What your child practices

Natural and human-made features, how the land shapes how we live, and caring for it by reducing, reusing and recycling.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 1.5(A); 1.5(B) · landforms, water, resources and weather, and how place shapes the way people live

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Natural things come from nature: trees, oceans, flowers.
  2. People make things like houses, roads and schools.
  3. We help nature when we recycle and pick up litter.

Example: Where should an empty plastic bottle go? Plastic bottles can be made into new things. So they go in the recycling bin. Answer: recycling bin

Our Land in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 2 of 15 in 1st grade Social Studies, after Maps and before My Community.

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

    Where should a candy wrapper go?

    • 🦆in the pond
    • 🗑️garbage can
    • 🛣️on the sidewalk

  2. Question 2

    Does it help or harm nature? Tap an item, then tap its basket.

    Sort into: 💚 helps nature · 💔 harms nature

    • 🛍️reuse a bag
    • 🧤pick up litter
    • ♻️recycle
    • 🪵break branches off trees
    • 🚰leave the tap running
    • 🥀pick all the wildflowers

  3. Question 3

    Where should an empty plastic bottle go?

    • 🌱on the grass
    • 🌊in the lake
    • ♻️recycling bin

  4. Question 4

    Your town is next to a lake. What can you do there in summer?

    • ⛄build a snowman
    • 🛷go sledding
    • 🏊swim

  5. Question 5

    What can old paper be recycled into?

    ♻️
    • 🪨rocks
    • 🍎apples
    • 📄new paper

  6. Question 6

    People cut down some trees to make…

    🌲
    • 🪨rocks
    • 🪵wood for houses
    • 💧water

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