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Grade 6 · Social Studies · Unit 4 of 6

Governments & Rights

Who decides, and whose rights?

What your child practises

Democracy, constitutional monarchy, dictatorship and other systems; how Canada's government works; and rights in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Canadian Charter.

BC Curriculum learning standard: Different systems of government; human rights and responses to human rights violations

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007) recognizes rights such as…

    • practising and revitalizing their cultures and languages
    • owning all the world's oceans
    • ignoring all laws
    • running every country's army
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    practising and revitalizing their cultures and languages

    Hint: The declaration protects Indigenous peoples' cultures, languages, lands and self-determination.

  2. Question 2

    A Canadian, John Humphrey, wrote the first draft of which important document?

    • the Charter of Rights and Freedoms
    • the Paris Agreement
    • the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
    • the Montreal Protocol
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    the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

    Hint: He was a law professor who worked at the United Nations in the 1940s.

  3. Question 3

    Is it more typical of a democracy or a dictatorship? Tap an item, then tap its basket.

    Sort into: 🗳️ democracy · 👤 dictatorship

    • 🗳️citizens vote in free and fair elections
    • ⚖️leaders must follow the same laws as everyone
    • ♾️the leader can rule for life with no limits
    • 📜laws change whenever the ruler wants
    • 🚫one leader holds power with no real elections
    • 🤝power changes hands peacefully after elections
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    🗳️ democracy: citizens vote in free and fair elections, leaders must follow the same laws as everyone, power changes hands peacefully after elections · 👤 dictatorship: the leader can rule for life with no limits, laws change whenever the ruler wants, one leader holds power with no real elections

    Hint: In a democracy, citizens choose leaders and their rights are protected by law. In a dictatorship, one ruler holds power without free elections and can limit people's rights.

  4. Question 4

    The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child protects everyone under what age?

    🧒
    • 16
    • 12
    • 21
    • 18
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    18

    Hint: The Convention defines a child as anyone below the age of adulthood used in most countries.

  5. Question 5

    Who is the head of government in Canada?

    🍁
    • the Chief Justice
    • the Governor General
    • the Prime Minister
    • the King
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    the Prime Minister

    Hint: The King is head of state, but the leader who runs the government day to day is the Prime Minister.

  6. Question 6

    Canada is a constitutional monarchy and a…

    🍁
    • absolute monarchy
    • parliamentary democracy
    • dictatorship
    • direct democracy
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    parliamentary democracy

    Hint: Canadians elect Members of Parliament, and the party that can win votes in Parliament forms the government.

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