🚀 Discovery Space · World

Our World in kindergarten to grade 5

Places, history and how people live around the planet. Daily Academy tracks it as its own skill, separately from the 4 others in discovery space, so it can never be averaged away by a subject score.

Check it tonight

“Why do people live there?” about anywhere on a map.

What to watch for

Place names without any sense of why places are the way they are.

Real our world questions from the library

5 activities currently target this skill. These are actual questions, shown at the difficulty they are served at, with the explanation a child sees after answering.

Difficulty 0.5 — mid grade 0
Where does a carrot grow?
Hint shown after a miss: You have to pull a carrot up.
Explanation: In the ground. That is why you pull it up rather than picking it off something.
Difficulty 0.6 — mid grade 0
Where does milk come from?
Hint shown after a miss: It comes from an animal.
Explanation: A cow. Milk is one of the foods that comes from an animal rather than from a plant.
Difficulty 0.9 — mid grade 0
Put these in the order they happen.
Hint shown after a miss: It has to grow before anyone can move it.
Explanation: Grow, travel, buy. The shop is the last step, not the first, even though it is the only one most people see.

The other 4 skills in Discovery Space

Each one is estimated separately, which is what lets the parent dashboard name a specific gap rather than report a subject average.

Living Things“What does this animal need to survive here?”Earth & Space“Why is it dark at night?” Listen for the mechanism, not the vocabulary.How Things Work“Why does a ramp make it easier?”Technology“What is inside that, and what does it actually do?”

Common questions

How do I know if my child has our world secure?

“Why do people live there?” about anywhere on a map. Place names without any sense of why places are the way they are.

Which grade is our world taught in?

It appears in both. Daily Academy does not gate skills by year group — a child is placed on a continuous difficulty scale during a five-minute intake, and our world is then served at whatever level they are actually at, adjusted separately from every other skill.

Practice by grade

Grade 2 scienceShort science readings for 7 and 8 year olds — living things, weather, materials and how everyday objects work — with questions that check understanding, not recall.Grade 3 scienceShort science readings for 8 and 9 year olds — forces, light and sound, the solar system, plants and animals, and how inventions work — with comprehension questions on each.Grade 1 science activities and readingsShort science readings for 6 and 7 year olds — seeds, sleep, magnets and rain — each 150 to 200 words, each leaving a mechanism rather than a fact.Grade 4 science activities and readingsScience readings for 9 and 10 year olds — how soap works, how the body remembers an illness, what a landfill really does — with questions that ask them to apply the mechanism somewhere new.Grade 5 science activities and readingsScience readings for 10 and 11 year olds — why the Arctic warms fastest, why antibiotics stop working, how a voting rule changes the result — each built on a feedback loop rather than a fact.Kindergarten science activities and readingsScience for 4 and 5 year olds — the five senses, what animals need, floating and sinking, day and night — each 70 to 110 words and each ending with something to go and check.

See where your child stands on our world

A five-minute intake places them on a continuous scale, and the skill map shows every skill separately from the first week. The daily mission is free.

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