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Grade 9 · Social Studies · Unit 6 of 7

Service Learning Projects

Plan a project that helps your community.

What your child practises

Practises choosing a real community need, setting goals, planning roles and timelines, working with community partners and reflecting on citizenship, as in the Engaged Citizenship strand of Nova Scotia's Citizenship 9 course.

New Brunswick Curriculum skill descriptor: Civics: Civic Engagement · actions that show the rights and responsibilities of citizenship

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 team aims to raise $500 and raises $400. What fraction of the goal did they reach?

    • 40%
    • 80%
    • 125%

  2. Question 2

    Which is a barrier to participation?

    • a snack
    • a clear agenda
    • a meeting held where some members cannot get a ride

  3. Question 3

    Before choosing a need, a team should first…

    • ask community members what they need
    • decide on a solution and then find a need
    • pick the idea that costs the least

  4. Question 4

    Alex is good at drawing and shy about speaking. Which team role fits Alex well?

    • doing every job alone
    • leading every phone call
    • designing posters for the project

  5. Question 5

    Which goal is clear and measurable?

    • Help hungry people somehow
    • Do something good soon
    • Collect 100 jars of food for the food bank by 15 March

  6. Question 6

    A team's idea needs $2000 and they only have six weeks. What is the wisest response?

    • adjust the goal to fit the time and money they can reach
    • keep the plan and hope it works out
    • give up on the idea completely

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