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Grade 7 · Social Studies · Unit 15 of 16

Bias & Viewpoints

Fact, opinion, bias and comparing perspectives

What your child practises

Children practise telling fact from opinion, recognizing bias, prejudice and stereotypes in the media, comparing viewpoints and thinking about solutions.

Manitoba Curriculum learning outcome: 7-S-105, 7-S-301, 7-S-303, 7-S-304, 7-S-307, 7-S-308, 7-S-311 · recognizing bias and discrimination, evaluating solutions and assumptions, fact versus opinion, comparing viewpoints and analyzing media bias

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

    Which statement is a fact?

    • Winnipeg has the best parks.
    • Winnipeg is the prettiest city.
    • Winnipeg is the capital of Manitoba.
    • Everyone loves winter in Winnipeg.

  2. Question 2

    To compare viewpoints on a global issue, you should…

    • trust the first result
    • ask one friend
    • use one source only
    • read or listen to several sources with different perspectives

  3. Question 3

    Bias is…

    • a leaning for or against something that can make a view unfair
    • a type of graph
    • a measurement tool
    • a kind of map

  4. Question 4

    Racism is…

    • a type of weather
    • a form of art
    • an economic term
    • treating people unfairly because of their race

  5. Question 5

    Advertising is often biased because it…

    • is always false
    • is designed to persuade you to buy something
    • is always scientific
    • has no pictures

  6. Question 6

    Which sentence combines a fact with an interpretation?

    • Villages are boring.
    • I hate that village.
    • The village is the best.
    • The village shrank by half in ten years, which suggests many people moved to cities.

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