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Grade 1 · Social Studies · Unit 2 of 5

Our Land

Nature, buildings and caring

What your child practises

Natural and human-made features, how the land shapes how we live, and caring for it by reducing, reusing and recycling.

Nova Scotia Curriculum learning outcome: Implement age-appropriate actions for responsible behaviour in caring for the environment · how people depend on the environment and care for it

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

    Does it help or harm nature? Tap an item, then tap its basket.

    Sort into: 💚 helps nature · 💔 harms nature

    • 🥀pick all the wildflowers
    • 🚰leave the tap running
    • 🧤pick up litter
    • 💡leave lights on all day
    • 🚶walk to school
    • 🛍️reuse a bag

  2. Question 2

    Is it natural or made by people? Tap an item, then tap its basket.

    Sort into: 🌿 natural · 🔨 made by people

    • 🪨rock
    • 🌳tree
    • 🚲bike
    • 🏫school
    • 🌷flower
    • 🛣️road

  3. Question 3

    What can old paper be recycled into?

    ♻️
    • 🍎apples
    • 📄new paper
    • 🪨rocks

  4. Question 4

    Where should a candy wrapper go?

    • 🛣️on the sidewalk
    • 🦆in the pond
    • 🗑️garbage can

  5. Question 5

    Which one makes less garbage?

    • 🍽️paper plates at every meal
    • 🛍️a new plastic bag every day
    • 🍱a reusable lunch box

  6. Question 6

    Where it snows a lot, what do people need?

    ❄️
    • 🩱swimsuits
    • 👡sandals
    • 🧥warm coats and boots

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