Kindergarten History Chapter 2 | Practice Workbook

Kindergarten History and Social Studies: Practice and Assessment

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Lesson 1: Needs and Wants

Adult: Read each example. Ask the child to explain the choice. If an example depends on the situation, discuss what more you would need to know rather than forcing one answer.

1. Is safe drinking water a need or a want?

2. Is a specific toy a need or a want?

3. Is food a need or a want?

4. Is shelter a need or a want?

5. Someone needs a coat and wants a red one. What is the need?

6. In that example, what is the want?

Advanced extension: Draw one need and one want. Explain that a different person may choose a different example.

Lesson 2: Goods and Services

Adult: Read each example and ask whether the named thing is a good or the named action is a service. Families can draw or speak their answers.

1. A loaf of bread: good or service?

2. A book: good or service?

3. Repairing a bicycle: good or service?

4. A person teaching a lesson: good or service?

5. A chair: good or service?

6. Name one service that helps people in a community.

Advanced extension: Describe one worker who provides a good and one who provides a service. Explain each.

Lesson 3: Places and Simple Maps

Imagine a small park. Its map key says T means tree and B means bench. The bench is beside the tree. An adult may draw the tree and bench as symbols on paper. This is a practice map, not a real park.

1. What can a map help us do?

2. What does a map key explain?

3. In the practice key, what does T mean?

4. In the practice key, what does B mean?

5. Where is the bench?

6. Must the map show every object in the park?

Advanced extension: Draw an imaginary room map with two symbols and a key. Explain where one item is.

Lesson 4: Follow Position Words

Adult: Use a safe empty box and a large block. Ask the child to put the block in, out, above or below the box. Use only safe surfaces and supervise the activity.

1. Put the block inside the box. Where is it?

2. Put it outside the box. Where is it?

3. If a picture is higher than a table, is it above or below the table?

4. If a shoe is lower than a chair, is it above or below the chair?

5. Place a block beside a book. What object is the block beside?

6. Why should someone say what object they are describing a position from?

Advanced extension: Give an adult two safe directions using position words, then check whether the adult followed them.

Lesson 5: Past, Present, and Evidence

With an adult, look at a family-approved photograph or a public historical photograph. Do not post names, addresses or private pictures. Tell what you can actually see and one question you would ask. If no image is available, discuss the model instead.

1. Does last year belong to the past or present?

2. Does right now belong to the past or present?

3. Name one example of evidence from the time of an event.

4. Can a photograph show everything that happened?

5. Tell one thing you actually see in an approved picture, or say you did not view one.

6. Name one question you could ask about a photograph.

Advanced extension: Compare an approved older picture and a current picture of similar places. Give one observed difference and one thing the pictures cannot tell you.

Independent Chapter Check

Teacher: Read questions aloud. Children may answer by speaking, pointing, drawing or writing. Keep family information private.

1. Is safe drinking water a need or a want?

2. Is a particular toy a need or a want?

3. Is a book a good or a service?

4. Is repairing a bicycle a good or a service?

5. What does a map key explain?

6. If a book is higher than a chair, is it above or below the chair?

7. Is last year in the past or the present?

8. Can one photograph tell everything that happened?