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Sound Solutions at Redwood Crest School

Read how Redwood Crest School responds to train noise, then use a graph to explain adaptations, environmental changes, and their effects.

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Aligned toGEO.3.4

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Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 3
Subject
Social Studies
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students identify ways people adapt to and change their environment.
  • Students explain effects of adaptations and environmental changes using text and graph evidence.
  • Students apply human-environment ideas to a new school situation.

How to use

Read the passage together and have students point to evidence before answering. Use the graph to discuss how a change to a place can have helpful and trade-off effects.

Curriculum

C3 Framework standard covered

GEO.3.4

Explain how people adapt to and change their environment and the effects of those changes.

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Sound Solutions at Redwood Crest School

Study how a school adapts to noise and changes its surroundings.

Read the school notes

Read about Redwood Crest School. Then answer the questions.

A Quieter School Day

Redwood Crest School stands beside a set of train tracks. Trains pass the east side of the school several times each day. When a train sounds its horn, students outside have trouble hearing one another. A teacher also noticed that sound from the tracks echoed through open classroom windows.

The school made some changes to help. Workers built a sound wall along the edge of the play yard. The wall used part of the yard, but it blocked some sound from reaching students outdoors. Workers also put sound-absorbing panels on two classroom walls. The panels changed the rooms so less sound bounced around inside.

People at the school made adaptations, too. Teachers closed windows during the loudest train times. They moved quiet reading and small-group lessons indoors when a train was passing near an outdoor class. These choices helped students continue learning even though the trains still used the tracks.

After the work, students could talk more easily in the play yard and hear one another better in the two classrooms. The school still had to care for the wall and panels. The wall also meant that a smaller part of the yard was open for play. The school weighed these effects as it planned the project.

1.
What environmental problem is the school trying to solve?
  • A. Trains make some school areas too noisy.
  • B. Rain makes the play yard too muddy.
  • C. Trees block sunlight from the classrooms.
  • D. The school does not have enough space for trains.
2.
Circle the TWO details that show people adapted their actions to the train noise.

Workers built a sound wall along the play yard.Teachers closed windows during loud train times.Teachers moved quiet lessons indoors when a train passed.Workers put panels on two classroom walls.

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