Grade 2 Social Studies practice sheet
Saskatchewan Curriculum · from Gradelings · Name: ______________________
Question 1
Where can families buy food in a community?
- 📚a library
- 🚒a fire hall
- 🛒a grocery store
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🛒 a grocery store
Hint: Grocery stores, markets and farms help people get food.
Question 2
In the Arctic, in the far north of Canada, winters are…
- ☀️hot and sunny
- 🌴short and warm
- ❄️very long and cold
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❄️ very long and cold
Hint: The Arctic is near the North Pole. Winter is long, dark and very cold.
Question 3
You can find the place your grandparents came from on…
- a clock
- a map or a globe
- a calendar
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a map or a globe
Hint: Maps and globes help us find places in the world.
Question 4
Put the generations in order, from oldest to youngest.
- 🧓grandparent
- 🧒child
- 👵great-grandparent
- 🧑parent
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great-grandparent → grandparent → parent → child
Hint: Great-grandparent, grandparent, parent, child.
Question 5
Respecting others means…
- 👥only playing with people who look like us
- 🤝treating them kindly, even when they are different from us
- 😝teasing people who are different
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🤝 treating them kindly, even when they are different from us
Hint: Respect is one of the best things we can show in our community.
Question 6
Everyone needs a safe place to live. What is that called?
- 🏠shelter
- 🛝a playground
- 🏪a store
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🏠 shelter
Hint: Shelter keeps us safe, warm and dry.
Question 7
Why do many people in Canada wear warm coats and boots in winter?
- ☀️It is always hot
- 🏊Because they like swimming
- 🧥Winters can be very cold in many places
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🧥 Winters can be very cold in many places
Hint: Our clothes change with the weather. Many parts of Canada have cold, snowy winters.
Question 8
People share food from their culture at a school fair. This shows…
- no one can eat
- everyone must like the same food
- we can learn from each other
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we can learn from each other
Hint: Sharing food is a friendly way to learn about cultures.
Question 9
What can an old photograph tell us?
📷- how people looked and what they wore
- what the weather will be
- what they will eat tomorrow
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how people looked and what they wore
Hint: Photos are a source about the past.
Question 10
Voting is one way adults help decide things for their community. Who gets to vote?
- 🚫nobody
- 🐱only kittens
- 🗳️adult citizens of Canada
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🗳️ adult citizens of Canada
Hint: Adults who are citizens can vote for the people who make decisions for us.
Answer key
- 1. 🛒 a grocery store (Needs & Wants)
- 2. ❄️ very long and cold (Communities in Canada)
- 3. a map or a globe (Groups in Our Community)
- 4. great-grandparent → grandparent → parent → child (Then & Now)
- 5. 🤝 treating them kindly, even when they are different from us (Caring Citizens)
- 6. 🏠 shelter (Needs & Wants)
- 7. 🧥 Winters can be very cold in many places (Communities in Canada)
- 8. we can learn from each other (Groups in Our Community)
- 9. how people looked and what they wore (Then & Now)
- 10. 🗳️ adult citizens of Canada (Caring Citizens)
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