Grade 2 · Social Studies · Unit 9 of 10
Caring Citizens
Rights and responsibilities
What your child practises
Rights and responsibilities, community helpers, and how small local actions help the planet.
Ontario Curriculum expectation: B1.3 · sustainability and the way people care for the places they share
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
What does a bus driver do?
- 🚌takes people safely where they need to go
- 🦷fixes teeth
- 🚜grows our food
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🚌 takes people safely where they need to go
Hint: Bus drivers help people get to school and work.
Question 2
A person who brings letters and parcels to your home is a…
- 🍞baker
- 🦷dentist
- 📬mail carrier
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📬 mail carrier
Hint: Mail carriers help connect people in the community.
Question 3
What does a doctor or nurse do?
- 🚒puts out fires
- 🚌drives a school bus
- 🩺helps people stay healthy
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🩺 helps people stay healthy
Hint: Doctors and nurses are helpers who look after our health.
Question 4
In your classroom, you can help make a decision by…
- 📢shouting your idea over everyone
- 🙉refusing to listen
- 🗣️listening to others and sharing your idea politely
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🗣️ listening to others and sharing your idea politely
Hint: A good citizen listens and shares ideas respectfully.
Question 5
Adults pay taxes and use the money to pay for things like…
- 🛣️roads, schools and parks
- 🚀a private rocket
- 🍬candy for every child
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🛣️ roads, schools and parks
Hint: Everyone shares the cost of things the whole community uses.
Question 6
If everyone in our town recycles, what happens?
- ♻️less garbage for the whole planet
- 😐nothing changes
- 🗑️more garbage
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♻️ less garbage for the whole planet
Hint: Local actions have global effects. When many people help, it makes a big difference!