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Grade 5 · Social Studies · Unit 4 of 4

Worldviews & Deciding Together

How what we believe shapes how we trade and share.

What your child practises

Practises how different worldviews lead to different approaches to economic decisions, with examples such as barter, the fur trade and Netukulimk. It follows the Grade 5 social studies skill descriptors on economic decision-making in the New Brunswick curriculum.

New Brunswick Curriculum skill descriptor: Economics: Decision-Making · worldview, and how different worldviews lead to different approaches to economic decision-making

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

    What is a worldview?

    • the way a person or group understands the world and how it works
    • a map of the globe
    • a kind of telescope
    • a weather forecast

  2. Question 2

    What is a resource?

    • a type of fog
    • something people use to meet their needs
    • a type of holiday
    • a type of storm

  3. Question 3

    What is a need?

    • a treat
    • a toy
    • something you must have to live, such as food and shelter
    • a new game

  4. Question 4

    What is a want?

    • shelter
    • water
    • something you would like but can live without
    • food

  5. Question 5

    What is economics?

    • the study of the weather
    • how people make choices about goods and services
    • the study of mountains
    • the study of stars

  6. Question 6

    Why do we need to think about the future when we make economic choices?

    • Our choices affect people who come after us
    • Only today matters
    • The future never changes
    • No one will ever need resources again

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