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Kindergarten · Science · Unit 10 of 11

Rocks, Soil, Water & Air

Sort rocks, feel the wind, and see how we use earth materials.

What your child practices

Practices sorting rocks by size, shape, color and texture, noticing that air is all around us and that wind is moving air, and naming ways people use rocks, soil and water.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: K.10(A); K.10(C); K.11 · sorting rocks, noticing air and wind, and how we use rocks, soil and water

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Rocks can be big or small, round or rough.
  2. Wind is moving air. Air is all around us.
  3. We use soil to grow plants and water to drink.

Example: Why do gardens need soil? Plant roots grow in soil. Soil helps plants grow. Answer: so plants can grow

Rocks, Soil, Water & Air in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 10 of 11 in Kindergarten Science, after Magnets & Light and before From Seed to Plant.

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

    Worms live in…

    • glass
    • the sky
    • soil
    • rocks

  2. Question 2

    Which word tells a rock's shape?

    • Shiny
    • Rough
    • Round
    • Gray

  3. Question 3

    You sort rocks into big and small. You are sorting by…

    • taste
    • size
    • color
    • smell

  4. Question 4

    A windsock points out straight. It is…

    • windy
    • snowing
    • nighttime
    • very calm

  5. Question 5

    Wind is…

    • moving soil
    • moving air
    • moving rocks
    • moving water

  6. Question 6

    Smooth rocks can make a path in a garden. That is a way we…

    • drink rocks
    • grow rocks
    • eat rocks
    • use rocks

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