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Grade 4 · Social Studies · Unit 3 of 5

Impacts of Exploration

Look at the good and the hard things that came from exploration.

What your child practises

Practises thinking about the positive and negative impacts of exploration, including trade and new maps as well as disease and loss of land for First Nations, and how the same event looks different to different people. It follows the Grade 4 Nova Scotia social studies outcome on the impacts of exploration. Content about First Nations is handled carefully and needs partner review.

Nova Scotia Curriculum learning outcome: Evaluate the impacts of exploration · positive and negative effects and different perspectives

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

    Which is a respectful way for newcomers and Mi’kmaw people to treat each other?

    • take everything
    • share knowledge about the land
    • ignore each other

  2. Question 2

    A ship arrives at a shore. How might the people on the ship see it?

    • as a place they have always known
    • as a new land to learn about
    • as their home

  3. Question 3

    The Peace and Friendship Treaties were agreements made between the Mi’kmaq and the British Crown. They were mostly about…

    • peace and how people would live together
    • building roads
    • naming provinces

  4. Question 4

    Which is a positive result of exploration?

    • better maps of the world
    • new diseases
    • lost homes

  5. Question 5

    Which food was first grown in the Americas by Indigenous peoples?

    • rice
    • corn
    • wheat

  6. Question 6

    Which is the best way to describe the impact of exploration?

    • It had some good results and some serious harms
    • It had only good results
    • It had no effect

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