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Grade 3 · Social Studies · Unit 6 of 6

Technology & Connected Communities

How inventions change life and link communities

What your child practises

How inventions such as the telephone, refrigerator and tractor changed daily life, good and not-so-good effects of technology, and how trade and helping link communities.

Saskatchewan Curriculum outcome: RW3.3, IN3.3 · how technologies have changed daily life, and how communities depend on each other

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

    Put these ways of talking to someone far away in order, from oldest to newest.

    • 📱smartphone
    • 📺television
    • 📻radio
    • ☎️telephone

  2. Question 2

    What is technology?

    🔧
    • only computers
    • tools and inventions people make to solve problems
    • the weather
    • plants and animals

  3. Question 3

    How did tractors change farming?

    🚜
    • farms got smaller and slower
    • farmers can work much more land with fewer people
    • crops grow without seeds
    • farmers need more horses

  4. Question 4

    How did the telephone change how communities work together?

    ☎️
    • people stopped talking
    • people could talk right away instead of waiting for letters
    • it only worked inside one house
    • letters became faster than phones

  5. Question 5

    Is it a technology that people made, or something from nature? Tap an item, then tap its basket.

    Sort into: 🔧 made by people · 🌿 from nature

    • 🚜tractor
    • 🚲bicycle
    • 🪨rock
    • 🌧️rain
    • 🏞️river
    • ☎️telephone

  6. Question 6

    How did refrigerators change daily life?

    🧊
    • people cook outside
    • food goes bad faster
    • food gets hotter
    • food stays fresh longer

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