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Grade 5 · Social Studies · Unit 6 of 6

Be an Informed Citizen

Sources, evidence and good questions

What your child practises

How archaeologists and historians use evidence, telling primary from secondary sources, fact from opinion, spotting bias, and why informed citizens check facts before they vote or act.

Nunavut Curriculum approved guide: Elementary Social Studies (NWT, 1993), History · primary and secondary sources, perspective, bias, and being an informed citizen

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 fact?

    • Roman food was tasty.
    • Rome was the best empire.
    • Rome had an aqueduct that carried water to the city.
    • Everyone should love Rome.

  2. Question 2

    In Athens, citizens could speak at the assembly. What is one way citizens take part in Canada today?

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    • serving as a Roman senator
    • building a pyramid
    • paying tribute to a pharaoh
    • voting in elections

  3. Question 3

    What is a secondary source?

    • something written later about the past, like a textbook
    • a coin from the time
    • a clay tablet from long ago
    • a tomb painting

  4. Question 4

    What does bias mean?

    • being very tall
    • a kind of map
    • an old coin
    • leaning toward one side without being fair to others

  5. Question 5

    A website says, 'Everyone knows Rome was perfect.' What should you do?

    • Ignore all websites
    • Copy it into your project
    • Believe it
    • Check other sources and look for evidence

  6. Question 6

    Two historians disagree about why an empire fell. What does this show?

    • People can read the same evidence and reach different conclusions
    • There was no empire
    • History is made up
    • One is always lying

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