Grade 4 · Social Studies · Unit 2 of 10
Daily Life Long Ago
Homes, food, clothing and childhood in early societies
What your child practises
What people ate, wore and lived in, how children learned, and how life differed for different people (a Roman senator and an enslaved person, a noble and a peasant), compared with life today.
Ontario Curriculum expectation: A1.2, A1.3, A3.3 · daily life in early societies and how it compares with a young person's life today
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
Which early society is this part of daily life from? Tap an item, then tap its basket.
Sort into: 🌽 Haudenosaunee · ❄️ Inuit · 🏺 ancient Egypt
- 🧊a snow house in winter
- 🌽corn, beans and squash
- 🏘️a longhouse covered in bark
- 🧥clothing made of caribou and sealskin
- 🧱a mud-brick house
- 🍞bread and onions with fish from the Nile
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🌽 Haudenosaunee: corn, beans and squash, a longhouse covered in bark · ❄️ Inuit: a snow house in winter, clothing made of caribou and sealskin · 🏺 ancient Egypt: a mud-brick house, bread and onions with fish from the Nile
Hint: Longhouses are Haudenosaunee homes. Tents, snow houses and sod houses are Inuit homes. Mud-brick houses were common in ancient Egypt.
Question 2
In ancient Egypt, most people were…
🌾- knights
- pirates
- farmers
- ship captains
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farmers
Hint: Farmers fed the kingdom with crops grown near the Nile.
Question 3
What did ancient Roman children often use to play a game?
🎲- tablet games
- knucklebones or small stones
- video consoles
- trading cards
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knucklebones or small stones
Hint: Children played simple games with objects they could find.
Question 4
Inuit children learn from their families and Elders. This is true…
👵- in the past and today
- only in the past
- never
- only in cities
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in the past and today
Hint: Inuit knowledge is shared across generations.
Question 5
How did most food reach a medieval peasant family?
🌾- they ordered it by phone
- it was delivered by trucks
- they grew it on the land they worked
- they bought it in a supermarket
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they grew it on the land they worked
Hint: Most people farmed.
Question 6
Why were the lives of a noble and a peasant so different in medieval Europe?
👑- they had no work
- they lived in the same house
- they had no differences
- their rank decided their rights, work and home
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their rank decided their rights, work and home
Hint: Social class decided much of daily life.