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Kindergarten · Social Studies · Unit 13 of 14

Tools & Technology

Helpful tools at home and school

What your child practices

Technology at home and school, the jobs it helps with, and how life was different before modern tools such as electric lights, cars and refrigerators.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: K.12(A); K.12(B); K.12(C) · technology at home and school, how it helps, and life without modern technology

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Technology is a tool that helps people do jobs.
  2. A fridge keeps food cold. A bus takes kids to school.
  3. Things from nature, like flowers, are not technology.

Example: Which one is not technology: a tablet or a flower? People made the tablet. A flower grows in nature. Answer: a flower

Tools & Technology in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 13 of 14 in Kindergarten Social Studies, after Near, Far & Maps and before Weather, Land & Me.

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

    Long ago, before electric lights, people used…

    • TV
    • candles
    • flashlights
    • tablets

  2. Question 2

    Long ago, before washing machines, people washed clothes…

    • with a TV
    • with a computer
    • by hand
    • with a phone

  3. Question 3

    Long ago, people kept food cold with…

    • a microwave
    • an oven
    • ice
    • a heater

  4. Question 4

    Without a stove, how could people cook?

    • in a mailbox
    • in a bathtub
    • under a desk
    • over a fire

  5. Question 5

    Which is technology used at school?

    • a computer
    • a shell
    • a puddle
    • a pinecone

  6. Question 6

    How would your day change without a car or bus?

    • you would not move
    • you would fly
    • nothing would change
    • you would walk farther

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