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Grade 3 · Social Studies · Unit 12 of 12

Think It Through

Fact or opinion, evidence, conclusions and weighing solutions.

What your child practises

Practises telling fact from opinion, drawing conclusions from evidence, supporting an opinion with a reason, changing ideas with new information, and weighing advantages and disadvantages of solutions.

Manitoba Curriculum learning outcome: 3-S-301, 3-S-302, 3-S-303, 3-S-304, 3-S-402 · advantages and disadvantages, conclusions from evidence, revising ideas, fact and opinion and supporting ideas

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

    A fact is something that…

    • is what someone feels
    • can be checked and shown to be true
    • is always a guess

  2. Question 2

    Disadvantages are…

    • the answers
    • the bad points of something
    • the good points

  3. Question 3

    New information can mean you…

    • stop listening
    • must stay the same
    • change your opinion

  4. Question 4

    You thought all birds fly. You then learn that penguins can't fly. You should…

    • ignore the fact
    • revise what you thought
    • say the penguin is wrong

  5. Question 5

    “Pizza is the tastiest food.” is an…

    • opinion
    • date
    • fact

  6. Question 6

    A class can have a quiet reading corner or a big game table, but not both. How do they decide?

    • Let one person choose
    • Talk about the advantages and disadvantages and vote
    • Pick randomly

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