Grade 3 · Social Studies · Unit 3 of 5
Cultures of the World
Different cultures, shared experiences
What your child practises
What culture means, how cultures differ (language, food, celebrations) and what people everywhere share, plus the rights and responsibilities of global citizens.
BC Curriculum learning standard: Diversity of world cultures; common experiences of people around the world; rights and responsibilities of global citizens
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
Is it a right or a responsibility? Tap an item, then tap its basket.
Sort into: 📜 a right · 🤝 a responsibility
- 💧to have clean water
- ♻️reduce, reuse and recycle
- 🏡to be safe
- 💛treat others kindly
- 👂listen when others speak
- 🏫to go to school
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📜 a right: to have clean water, to be safe, to go to school · 🤝 a responsibility: reduce, reuse and recycle, treat others kindly, listen when others speak
Hint: A right is something every child should have. A responsibility is something we should do to help others and our world.
Question 2
Naan, tortillas and pita are all kinds of…
🫓- bread
- fruit
- soup
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bread
Hint: Bread is eaten in many cultures, but it is made in many different ways.
Question 3
Which is a right that every child should have?
🏫- to go to school and learn
- to never do chores
- to eat dessert first
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to go to school and learn
Hint: Every child has the right to learn, to be safe, and to have food and clean water.
Question 4
People all over the world share some things in common. Which is one?
👨👩👧- families who care for each other
- everyone speaks the same language
- everyone eats the same breakfast
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families who care for each other
Hint: Families, friends, learning, food and celebrations are part of life everywhere, even if they look different.
Question 5
What is a global citizen?
🌏- someone who has visited every country
- someone who lives in outer space
- someone who cares about people and places all over the world
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someone who cares about people and places all over the world
Hint: You don't have to travel to be a global citizen. You just have to care about the whole world.
Question 6
Who agreed to protect the rights of children around the world?
🌐- a sports team
- one school principal
- countries in the United Nations
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countries in the United Nations
Hint: Almost every country in the world agreed to protect children's rights through the United Nations.