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3rd grade · Social Studies · Unit 1 of 11

Needs Around the World

Homes, food and clothes everywhere

What your child practices

Everyone needs food, water, shelter and clothing. How people in different places meet these needs using what the land and climate offer, and why caring for the land matters.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 3.3(B) · how people in different places adapt to their environment to meet their needs

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Everyone needs food, water, shelter and clothing.
  2. People meet their needs with what their land and weather give them.
  3. When people can't grow or make something, they trade for it.

Example: Why do people in very hot places often wear loose, light clothes? Clothing is a need, and it has to suit the weather. Loose, light clothes let air move and keep people cool. Answer: to stay cool in the heat

Needs Around the World in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 1 of 11 in 3rd grade Social Studies, before Working Together Fairly.

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 are basic needs for every person in the world?

    🌍
    • food, water, shelter and clothing
    • candy, bikes and TV
    • toys, games and phones

  2. Question 2

    Why do many towns and cities grow beside rivers?

    🏞️
    • rivers give water for drinking, farming and travel
    • rivers keep all the rain away
    • rivers make the land hotter

  3. Question 3

    Would you need it more in a hot place or a cold place?

    Sort into: ☀️ hot, sunny place · ❄️ cold, snowy place

    • 🧥warm parka
    • 🩳shorts
    • 🧣scarf
    • 🧤mittens
    • 🩴sandals
    • 👒sun hat

  4. Question 4

    Which is a natural resource from the land?

    • 🎮a video game
    • 🧸a plastic toy
    • 🌲trees for wood

  5. Question 5

    In a hot, sunny place, what helps people stay cool?

    ☀️
    • light, loose clothes and shade
    • fur-lined boots
    • thick wool coats

  6. Question 6

    Which of these uses the land to meet a basic need?

    • 🎬watching a movie
    • 🥕growing vegetables on a farm
    • 🎮playing a video game

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