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Grade 3 · Social Studies · Unit 6 of 6

Our Territory: The NWT

Meet the lakes, rivers, communities and languages of the Northwest Territories.

What your child practises

NWT schools add local knowledge to the adapted BC curriculum. This unit covers where the Northwest Territories is, its capital, big lakes and rivers, communities and 11 official languages. Present tense, living communities.

NWT Curriculum learning standard: Northwest Territories · places, communities and official languages of the Northwest Territories

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 direction is the NWT from Alberta?

    • east
    • north
    • south

  2. Question 2

    Which lake is in the NWT and is one of the biggest in North America?

    • Great Slave Lake
    • Lake Ontario
    • Lake Winnipeg

  3. Question 3

    Which of these is an official language of the NWT?

    • Spanish
    • Mandarin
    • Tłı̨chǫ

  4. Question 4

    Which two languages are official in the NWT along with nine Indigenous languages?

    • Latin and Greek
    • Russian and Japanese
    • English and French

  5. Question 5

    The Northwest Territories is one of Canada's…

    • three territories
    • ten provinces
    • two oceans

  6. Question 6

    How can people reach Tuktoyaktuk on the Arctic coast all year by car?

    • The Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk Highway
    • A subway
    • A train from Yellowknife

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