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2nd grade · Science · Unit 11 of 14

Care for Our Earth

Reduce, reuse, recycle and respect nature

What your child practices

Show how your family reuses and recycles. Spend time outside, and talk about taking only what you need and leaving nature as you found it.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 2.11(B) · reducing, reusing and recycling to limit human impact

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Reduce waste with things you can use again, like a lunch box.
  2. Put litter in a garbage bin and recycle.
  3. Spending time in nature can make us feel calm.

Example: Which reduces waste at lunch: a plastic bag or a lunch box? A plastic bag is thrown away. A lunch box is used again. Answer: a lunch box

Care for Our Earth in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 11 of 14 in 2nd grade Science, after Animal Adaptations and before Producers & Consumers.

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

    You finish a snack. What do you do with the wrapper?

    • toss it in a puddle
    • drop it on the grass
    • put it in the bin

  2. Question 2

    Which helps reduce waste at lunch?

    🥪
    • a lunch box you can use again
    • a wrapper for every item
    • a new plastic bag each day

  3. Question 3

    Where does an empty paper box go to be recycled?

    • ♻️recycling bin
    • 🕳️a hole in the ground
    • 🛝the playground

  4. Question 4

    Why should we protect nature?

    • plants, animals and people need it
    • nobody lives there
    • it is boring

  5. Question 5

    Helps nature or hurts nature? Tap a picture, then its basket.

    Sort into: 💚 Helps · 💔 Hurts

    • 🗑️drop litter
    • 🚰leave the tap on
    • 🌳plant a tree
    • 🌿break a branch
    • 🫙reuse a jar
    • 🧹pick up litter

  6. Question 6

    Which word means using something again?

    ♻️
    • break
    • reuse
    • throw

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