Worksheet Grade 1 Health & Consumer Science

The Lund Family's Kitchen Tap on Ivywood Court

A grade 1 health and consumer worksheet on kitchen water habits: seven read-aloud word problems within 20, two choice items, and one writing prompt.

Grade: Grade 1
Subject: Health & Consumer Science
Material: Worksheet
Time: 25 min
Prep: No prep
Materials: None

Standards

1.OA.A.1 Common Core Math

Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

How this material aligns: Items 1 through 7 are add-to, take-from, and compare word problems within 20 set at a kitchen sink, with the unknown in the result position, which is the problem work this standard names.

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W.1.2 Common Core ELA

Write informative/explanatory texts in which they name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide some sense of closure.

How this material aligns: Item 10 asks each student to name saving water as the topic and supply one fact, drawn from a habit on this page, about when water is saved, completing the sentence frame in writing or by dictation.

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Objectives

Students will solve add-to, take-from, and compare problems within 20.
Students will choose the kitchen habit that uses less water and say why.
Students will write or dictate one fact about saving water at home.

Vocabulary

Key words: tap, cup, jug, save

Teacher overview

The Lund family is a made-up family living on Ivywood Court, and every item on this worksheet comes from one afternoon at their kitchen sink. Two habits sit underneath the arithmetic: turning the tap off while scrubbing a plate, and keeping a jug of water in the refrigerator instead of running the tap until it turns cold. Both are ordinary consumer choices a first grader can make or ask a grown-up about at home. Read every item aloud; the numbers stay within 20 so students can solve with counters, drawings, or known sums.

The Lund Family's Kitchen Tap on Ivywood Court — Grade 1 Health & Consumer Science

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Student Worksheet

Read aloud: The Lund family lives on Ivywood Court. This family is made up. Answer each question. You may draw or use counters.

Mom fills 6 cups at the tap. Dad fills 4 more cups. How many cups in all?
The tray holds 12 cups. The family drinks 5 cups. How many cups are left?
Ana lets the tap run to get cold water. It fills 8 cups. The jug in the fridge fills 2 cups. How many more cups did the tap fill?
There are 9 dirty plates. The family washes 9 plates. How many plates are left?
The dog bowl holds 3 cups. Ana fills it two times. How many cups is that?
The family drank 7 cups at lunch. They drank 8 cups at dinner. How many cups in all?
Ana hears a drip. She counts 10 drips. Then she counts 6 more. How many drips in all?
Circle the better plan. Let the tap run while you scrub a plate, or turn the tap off while you scrub.
Circle the better plan. Take cold water from a jug in the fridge, or let the tap run until it is cold.
Write one fact. Start like this. We can save water when we ____.

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Answer Key

Answer: 10 cups. 6 plus 4 equals 10 cups filled at the tap.
Answer: 7 cups. 12 minus 5 equals 7 cups still on the tray.
Answer: 6 cups. 8 minus 2 equals 6 more cups filled by the running tap than by the jug.
Answer: 0 plates. 9 minus 9 equals 0, so no dirty plates are left.
Answer: 6 cups. 3 plus 3 equals 6 cups poured into the dog bowl.
Answer: 15 cups. 7 plus 8 equals 15. Students may make ten from 7 and 3, then add the remaining 5.
Answer: 16 drips. 10 plus 6 equals 16 drips counted in all.
Answer: Turn the tap off while you scrub. Water that runs into the drain during scrubbing is not helping wash the plate.
Answer: Take cold water from a jug in the fridge. Waiting for the tap to turn cold sends cups of water down the drain first.
Answer: Sample response: We can save water when we turn off the tap. Accept any sentence naming one habit from this page, dictated or written, with the frame completed.

Differentiation

Support (below grade level)

Give these students a ten-frame and two colors of counters so each problem can be built before it is written. Read items 1 through 7 one at a time and pause after each sentence, and let students answer items 8 and 9 by pointing to the choice rather than circling it.

Extension (above grade level)

Ask these students to write a new word problem about the Lund kitchen using two numbers that add to a total under 20, then trade with a partner and solve. For item 10 they can add a second sentence that begins with the word because.

ELL supports

Pre-teach tap, cup, jug, and drip with the real objects or clear pictures before the worksheet begins. Keep the read-aloud pace slow and repeat each question once without changing the wording. Accept a dictated response for item 10 in the home language with one English word added during scribing.

Extensions

Send home a one-week tally card with two boxes, one for turning the tap off while scrubbing and one for pouring from a jug in the refrigerator. Students mark a tally each time they see the habit at home, and the class adds the totals together on Friday using the same within-20 strategies from this page.