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Grade 4 · Social Studies · Unit 3 of 6

Explorers’ Stories

Explorers of land, sea and space, long ago and today.

What your child practises

Grade 4 social studies meets explorers from many places and times, from Marco Polo to Canadian astronauts. Ask your child which explorer they would like to have travelled with, and why.

Newfoundland and Labrador Curriculum curriculum outcome: Time, continuity and change (by Grade 6) · explorers of land, sea and space, long ago and today, and what they found

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

    Who was the first person to travel into space, in 1961?

    • Neil Armstrong
    • Yuri Gagarin
    • Bob Bartlett
    • Marc Garneau

  2. Question 2

    In 1985, a team of ocean explorers found the wreck of which famous ship, south of Newfoundland?

    • the Mayflower
    • the Matthew
    • the Titanic
    • the Santa María

  3. Question 3

    What were explorers like Hudson searching for in the Arctic?

    • the South Pole
    • the Northwest Passage, a sea route to Asia
    • gold mines
    • a lost city

  4. Question 4

    Bob Bartlett, a famous Arctic ship captain, grew up in which Newfoundland community?

    • Labrador City
    • Brigus
    • Gander
    • Corner Brook

  5. Question 5

    Which explorer was the first to reach the South Pole, in 1911?

    • Marco Polo
    • Christopher Columbus
    • Samuel de Champlain
    • Roald Amundsen

  6. Question 6

    How was Zheng He’s fleet different from Columbus’s?

    • It had no ships
    • It used aeroplanes
    • It sailed only on rivers
    • It had many more and much bigger ships

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