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Kindergarten · Social Studies · Unit 5 of 14

Places Near Me

Buildings, nature and what they are for

What your child practices

Naming places in the community (library, park, school, hospital), what they are used for, and whether they are natural or built.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: K.4(A); K.6(A) · natural and built places in the community and the people who work there

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Some places are nature: hills, lakes, meadows.
  2. Some places are built by people: stores, bridges, libraries.
  3. Each place has a job, like a store for food.

Example: Is a bridge nature or built? People made the bridge. Things people make are built. Answer: built

Places Near Me in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 5 of 14 in Kindergarten Social Studies, after My Jobs, Rules & Leaders and before Fair & Kind.

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

    Who keeps our teeth healthy?

    🦷
    • a dentist
    • a pilot
    • a bus driver

  2. Question 2

    Where can you go to learn?

    • 🏦bank
    • 🏊pool
    • 🏫school

  3. Question 3

    Who works at a school?

    🧑‍🏫
    • only farmers
    • only pilots
    • teachers

  4. Question 4

    Where do people go when they are sick or hurt?

    • 🌳park
    • 🥖bakery
    • 🏥hospital

  5. Question 5

    Which one is a built place in a community?

    • 📮a post office
    • 🏞️a lake
    • 🌲a forest

  6. Question 6

    A place in your community has ice, and people skate. It is a…

    • ⛸️rink
    • 🥖bakery
    • 🏦bank

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