Subscribe

Grade 4 · Social Studies · Unit 2 of 6

Why People Explore

What exploration is, why people do it and what it changes.

What your child practises

Grade 4 social studies asks what exploration is, why people have explored and what happened because of it. Ask your child what place they would most like to explore, and what they would need to bring.

Newfoundland and Labrador Curriculum curriculum outcome: Time, continuity and change (by Grade 6) · what exploration is, why people explore, and its positive and negative results

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

    How can you be an explorer in your own community?

    • by visiting new places and asking questions
    • by closing your eyes
    • by ignoring what you see
    • by never going outside

  2. Question 2

    What is a crew?

    • a map of the stars
    • the food on a ship
    • the captain’s hat
    • the people who work together on a ship or spacecraft

  3. Question 3

    Who often paid for explorers’ voyages long ago?

    • the explorers’ pets
    • children
    • kings, queens and merchants
    • nobody

  4. Question 4

    Which is a reason people explore today?

    • to look for dinosaurs alive
    • to sail to the Sun
    • to find the edge of a flat Earth
    • to learn about deep oceans and outer space

  5. Question 5

    Which is an example of ocean exploration?

    • a robot submarine mapping the sea floor
    • a hike in the woods
    • a rover on Mars
    • a plane flying over a city

  6. Question 6

    What is one negative result that exploration has sometimes had?

    • new foods to try
    • more knowledge about the stars
    • spreading diseases to people who had no protection from them
    • better maps for everyone

More Grade 4