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Review: Places Around Us

Distinguish familiar places and natural features.

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Unit review questions
1. Use the notes and this card. Visitors sit beside a public walking path. Which choice best fits?
Need a hint?
  • Look at what people do in the place: live there, borrow books, play outdoors or learn with a teacher.
  • Find the note for Park. Check which words in this card match it.
2. Use the notes and this card. A boat is on inland water enclosed by land. Which choice best fits?
Need a hint?
  • Look for raised land, flowing water, water surrounded by land or a very large salt-water body in the words on the card.
  • Find the note for Lake. Check which words in this card match it.
3. Use the notes and this card. A pond sits with a house on one side and a barn on the other. Which choice best fits?
Need a hint?
  • Find the two places named on the card. Notice whether one is close, far away, between two places or inside a boundary.
  • Find the note for Between. Check which words in this card match it.
4. Use the notes and this card. A camera records a mountain from the roadside. Which choice best fits?
Need a hint?
  • Look for how the picture was made: a round Earth model, a flat map, a camera picture or an invented drawing.
  • Find the note for Photograph. Check which words in this card match it.

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Use the skills in a new task

Make four small boxes for Places Around Us, one for each lesson: Homes and Public Places; Land and Water; Near Far and Between; A Globe and a Picture Map. In each box, choose one supplied card and explain its match using the notes. Compare two of your cards: what makes their matches different? You may draw or tell an adult your answers; the adult can write them for you. Use the lesson cards; you do not need a purchase, interview, personal record or trip. For the adult helping: keep the fictional examples and historical notes distinct; these short cards do not tell every detail about a person or place.

Work on paper or in your own document. Explain the choices you made.

  • Choose one supplied card from each lesson: Homes and Public Places; Land and Water; Near Far and Between; A Globe and a Picture Map.
  • Use the notes to name each match and explain its clue.
  • Compare two cards and say or show how their clues differ.
  • Keep the events and details as written; do not make up a quotation or new event.
  • With an adult, name one question the cards do not answer.
Compare with a model response

Homes and Public Places: The card says: “A fictional family lives in an apartment.” That matches Home. Home is a place where people live. Compare: The card says: “A fictional visitor borrows a storybook.” That matches Library. Library is a place with books and learning resources. Land and Water: The card says: “A drawing shows a rounded rise above nearby ground.” That matches Hill. Hill is raised land lower than a mountain in ordinary descriptions. Compare: The card says: “A drawing shows water moving through a long channel.” That matches River. River is water flowing along a channel. Near Far and Between: The card says: “Fictional drawing: the tree touches the house’s yard.” That matches Near. Near is close to the stated reference place. Compare: The card says: “Fictional drawing: the mountain is many miles from the house.” That matches Far. Far is a long way from the stated reference place. A Globe and a Picture Map: The card says: “A round object shows continents and oceans.” That matches Globe. Globe is a round model of Earth. Compare: The card says: “A flat page shows labeled streets from above.” That matches Map. Map is a flat representation of a place. Adult checking note: This model uses the supplied lesson cards and notes. It does not describe every person, community or place. Answering a new question would need a matching source or a new observation.

A different response can also meet the criteria. Compare the evidence and reasoning, rather than copying the wording.