1st grade Social Studies practice sheet
Alabama Course of Study · from Gradelings · Name: ______________________
Question 1
What is a crossing guard's job?
- 🔧fix cars
- 🛑help kids cross the street safely
- 🛒sell food
🛑 help kids cross the street safely
Hint: A crossing guard holds up a stop sign so cars wait while children cross.
Question 2
Which way of caring for the school garden is respectful?
🌻- Water the plants gently
- Walk across the beds
- Pull up the flowers
Water the plants gently
Hint: We show respect for plants and the environment too.
Question 3
Who gives check-ups and shots at a clinic?
💉- a nurse
- a plumber
- a baker
a nurse
Hint: Nurses help keep us healthy.
Question 4
Zoe trades her apple for Noah's orange. That is…
- saving
- bartering
- voting
bartering
Hint: Bartering is trading one thing for another.
Question 5
A dentist gives a…
- good
- shoe
- service
- toy
service
Hint: A dentist helps with teeth.
Question 6
Look at the map. What is east of the house?
⬆️ North is up
🟩 📚 🟩
🏥 🏠 🏪
🟩 🌳 🟩
- 📚library
- 🏪store
- 🌳park
🏪 store
Hint: On this map, east is on the right. Look just right of the house.
Question 7
People cut down some trees to make…
🌲- 🪨rocks
- 🪵wood for houses
- 💧water
🪵 wood for houses
Hint: Wood from trees is used to build houses and make paper.
Question 8
Put these events from your life in order. What came first?
- 🚶Learn to walk
- 🎒Kindergarten
- 👶Baby
- 📚Grade 1
Baby → Learn to walk → Kindergarten → Grade 1
Hint: A baby is born, learns to walk, goes to Kindergarten, then Grade 1.
Question 9
A graph shows 5 kids walk and 3 ride. Which is more?
- They are the same
- walk
- ride
walk
Hint: 5 is more than 3.
Question 10
Long ago, people crossed oceans on…
- rockets
- sailing ships
- airplanes
- speedboats
sailing ships
Hint: Wind filled the sails.
Answer key
- 1. 🛑 help kids cross the street safely (My Community)
- 2. Water the plants gently (Respect & Inclusion)
- 3. a nurse (Community Services)
- 4. bartering (Earning, Saving & Sharing)
- 5. service (Goods and Services)
- 6. 🏪 store (Maps)
- 7. 🪵 wood for houses (Our Land)
- 8. Baby → Learn to walk → Kindergarten → Grade 1 (Changes in My Life)
- 9. walk (Social Studies Detectives)
- 10. sailing ships (School & Travel Long Ago)
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