Grade 3 · Social Studies · Unit 5 of 6
Decisions, Conflicts & Rights
How communities decide and children's rights
What your child practises
How decisions are made in towns, rural municipalities and First Nations communities, voting and consensus, peaceful ways to work through disagreements, and children's rights and responsibilities.
Saskatchewan Curriculum outcome: PA3.1–PA3.3 · how decisions are made in communities, peaceful ways to solve conflicts, and documents that protect the rights of children
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
Why do communities have rules and laws?
📜- to stop people from talking
- to keep people safe and treat everyone fairly
- so that nobody can play
- to make life boring
to keep people safe and treat everyone fairly
Hint: Rules help people live together.
Question 2
Does it help solve a disagreement, or make it worse? Tap an action, then tap its basket.
Sort into: 🤝 helps solve it · 💥 makes it worse
- ⚖️find a fair compromise
- 🚫leave someone out on purpose
- 😠call each other names
- 🧘take a deep breath first
- ✊grab the toy away
- 👂listen to each other
🤝 helps solve it: find a fair compromise, take a deep breath first, listen to each other · 💥 makes it worse: leave someone out on purpose, call each other names, grab the toy away
Hint: Calm words, listening and taking turns help. Yelling, grabbing and leaving people out make things worse.
Question 3
Which sentence uses an “I message” to share a feeling?
💬- Go away!
- You never share!
- You are mean.
- I feel upset when I am not given a turn.
I feel upset when I am not given a turn.
Hint: An I message starts with “I feel…” and says why.
Question 4
A community wants to build a new road through a park. Why should the council listen to many people first?
🛣️- roads never affect anyone
- listening is against the law
- only one person uses a park
- the decision affects different people in different ways
the decision affects different people in different ways
Hint: Good decisions consider many points of view.
Question 5
Why might people in a small town and a big city make decisions in different ways?
🏙️- big cities have no leaders
- every community must use the same rules
- communities have different sizes, needs and leaders
- small towns never decide anything
communities have different sizes, needs and leaders
Hint: Compare how decisions are made in different places.
Question 6
Which is a right that all children have?
🛡️- the right to be safe
- the right to have the newest toy
- the right to a pet
- the right to skip school
the right to be safe
Hint: Every child has the right to be safe and cared for.