Grade 9 · Social Studies · Unit 1 of 3
Society & Worldview
What shapes how people see the world
What your child practises
What a society is, what shapes a worldview (time and place, culture, language, religion, gender identity, socio-economic situation and education), and how worldview shows up in buildings, stories, celebrations and decisions in societies of the past.
Saskatchewan Curriculum outcome: IN9.1–IN9.4 · what makes a society, the factors that shape a worldview, and how worldview shows in daily life and decisions
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
A festival that celebrates a successful harvest shows…
🎊- nothing at all
- that no one farms
- a random event
- what the society values
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what the society values
Hint: Celebrations reveal values.
Question 2
Which can shape a society's worldview?
🧠- only the weather
- only age
- religion, language and culture
- only the colour of clothing
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religion, language and culture
Hint: Time and place, culture, language, religion, gender identity, socio-economic situation and education all play a role.
Question 3
Which is the best example of a society's worldview influencing interactions with another society?
🤝- never meeting anyone
- refusing to trade with people who worship different gods
- moving to the sea
- trading without thought
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refusing to trade with people who worship different gods
Hint: Beliefs can bring cooperation or conflict.
Question 4
Is it a factor that shapes a worldview, or an example of worldview in daily life? Tap an item, then tap its basket.
Sort into: 🧠 shapes a worldview · 🏺 shows a worldview in daily life
- 🏛️temples built for the gods
- ⚱️burial customs
- 📚education
- 🎉festivals and celebrations
- 🕊️religion
- 🌍time and place
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🧠 shapes a worldview: education, religion, time and place · 🏺 shows a worldview in daily life: temples built for the gods, burial customs, festivals and celebrations
Hint: Factors are things like time and place, culture, language and religion. Daily-life examples are things people build, wear, eat or celebrate.
Question 5
Why can a worldview make it hard to understand a society of the past?
🔍- we may judge them by our own beliefs instead of theirs
- they spoke too quietly
- there are no differences
- they lived in the same place
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we may judge them by our own beliefs instead of theirs
Hint: Historians try to understand people on their own terms.
Question 6
Which is an example of a society sharing values through stories?
📖- a bus schedule
- a road sign
- a grocery receipt
- myths and legends told across generations
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myths and legends told across generations
Hint: Stories carry values and history.