Grade 1 Social Studies practice sheet
NWT Curriculum · from Gradelings · Name: ______________________
Question 1
Who brings letters to your home?
- 🚒firefighter
- 🚜farmer
- 📬mail carrier
📬 mail carrier
Hint: A mail carrier delivers letters and packages to homes.
Question 2
How are all people alike?
- ❤️we all need love and care
- 🏷️we all have the same name
- 🍕we all like the same food
❤️ we all need love and care
Hint: We are all different, but everyone needs love, care, food and a safe home.
Question 3
Where it snows a lot, what do people need?
❄️- 🧥warm coats and boots
- 👡sandals
- 🩱swimsuits
🧥 warm coats and boots
Hint: The weather where we live changes what we wear.
Question 4
What tells you what the symbols on a map mean?
🗺️- 🔑the legend (or key)
- 🎨the colours
- 🏷️the title
🔑 the legend (or key)
Hint: The legend, or key, is a little box that tells what each symbol means.
Question 5
How can you help your community?
- 📢be noisy in the library
- 🧤pick up litter at the park
- 🥤leave garbage on the grass
🧤 pick up litter at the park
Hint: Small helpful jobs, like picking up litter, make our community a better place.
Question 6
Lena's family speaks two languages at home. That is…
- 🚫not allowed
- ⭐a great skill!
- 🙈something to hide
⭐ a great skill!
Hint: Speaking more than one language is a wonderful thing to share.
Question 7
Does it help or harm nature? Tap an item, then tap its basket.
Sort into: 💚 helps nature · 💔 harms nature
- 🚰leave the tap running
- ♻️recycle
- 🥀pick all the wildflowers
- 🪵break branches off trees
- 🚶walk to school
- 🌱plant a tree
💚 helps nature: recycle, walk to school, plant a tree · 💔 harms nature: leave the tap running, pick all the wildflowers, break branches off trees
Hint: Caring for the land, water and animals keeps our community healthy.
Question 8
Look at the map. What is east of the house?
⬆️ North is up
🟩 🏊 🟩
🏪 🏠 🏫
🟩 🏥 🟩
- 🏪store
- 🏫school
- 🏊pool
🏫 school
Hint: On this map, east is on the right. Look just right of the house.
Question 9
Who helps you learn at school?
- 🚜farmer
- 🦷dentist
- 🏫teacher
🏫 teacher
Hint: Teachers help children learn to read, write, count and more.
Question 10
Do we all need it, or can it be different?
Sort into: 🤝 everyone needs it · 🌈 can be different
- 🎉how we celebrate
- 🥕healthy food
- ❤️love and care
- ⚽favourite sport
- 🏠a safe home
- 💬language we speak
🤝 everyone needs it: healthy food, love and care, a safe home · 🌈 can be different: how we celebrate, favourite sport, language we speak
Hint: We all need the same things to live, like water and love. Our favourite things can be different!
Answer key
- 1. 📬 mail carrier (My Community)
- 2. ❤️ we all need love and care (Different & Alike)
- 3. 🧥 warm coats and boots (Our Land)
- 4. 🔑 the legend (or key) (Maps)
- 5. 🧤 pick up litter at the park (My Community)
- 6. ⭐ a great skill! (Different & Alike)
- 7. 💚 helps nature: recycle, walk to school, plant a tree · 💔 harms nature: leave the tap running, pick all the wildflowers, break branches off trees (Our Land)
- 8. 🏫 school (Maps)
- 9. 🏫 teacher (My Community)
- 10. 🤝 everyone needs it: healthy food, love and care, a safe home · 🌈 can be different: how we celebrate, favourite sport, language we speak (Different & Alike)
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