Grade 4 · Social Studies · Unit 9 of 9
Citizenship
Rights and responsibilities in Canada
What your child practises
Citizens have rights, such as voting and being treated fairly, and responsibilities, such as following laws and helping others. Children learn about the Charter, treaty rights, voting in Alberta, and ways to take part.
Alberta Curriculum learning outcome: citizenship rights and responsibilities · the rights of citizens, how rights come with responsibilities, and taking part in your community
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
Citizens may be called to serve on a jury. This is…
⚖️- a sport
- a prize
- a holiday
- a responsibility that helps the justice system
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a responsibility that helps the justice system
Hint: A jury listens to a case and helps decide it.
Question 2
What is a right?
🛡️- a homework page
- a chore
- something every person is entitled to
- a kind of game
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something every person is entitled to
Hint: Rights are freedoms and protections.
Question 3
Is it a right or a responsibility? Tap an item, then tap its basket.
Sort into: 🛡️ a right · 🤝 a responsibility
- ⚖️being treated fairly under the law
- 🕊️practising your own religion
- 🤝respecting other people's rights
- 🌳caring for parks and shared places
- 🚦obeying the law
- 🏫going to school
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🛡️ a right: being treated fairly under the law, practising your own religion, going to school · 🤝 a responsibility: respecting other people's rights, caring for parks and shared places, obeying the law
Hint: A right is something you are entitled to. A responsibility is something you should do to help others and your community.
Question 4
What does freedom of expression mean?
💬- you must never talk
- you can share your ideas in respectful ways
- you must agree with everyone
- you can say anything to hurt others
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you can share your ideas in respectful ways
Hint: Rights come with responsibilities.
Question 5
You disagree with a rule in your community. What is a good way to respond?
📣- break the rule on purpose
- bully the person who made it
- say nothing and pretend
- share your view respectfully, or write to an elected leader
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share your view respectfully, or write to an elected leader
Hint: Citizens can work for change in peaceful ways.
Question 6
Which document protects rights and freedoms in Canada?
📜- the Quebec Act
- the Treaty of Paris
- the Durham Report
- the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
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the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Hint: It became part of the Constitution in 1982.