Grade 4 · Social Studies · Unit 1 of 10
What Is Exploration?
Why people explore
What your child practises
Children explore what exploration means, and what it means to explore land, ocean, space and ideas.
Prince Edward Island Curriculum curriculum outcome: 4.1.1 · the concept of exploration
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
Which of these can people explore?
- only things they already know
- only their own street
- land, ocean, space and ideas
- only things in a store
land, ocean, space and ideas
Hint: There is a lot to discover in many places.
Question 2
Which is an example of exploring the ocean?
- diving to study a shipwreck
- doing a maths puzzle
- launching a satellite
- hiking up a hill
diving to study a shipwreck
Hint: Look for something that happens in the sea.
Question 3
Exploring land means…
- solving a word puzzle
- travelling over places on Earth to learn about them
- diving under the sea
- flying to the Moon
travelling over places on Earth to learn about them
Hint: Land is the ground we walk and live on.
Question 4
Which of these is exploration?
- Eating lunch at your desk
- Watching the same show again
- Mapping a part of the ocean floor no one has seen
- Folding the laundry
Mapping a part of the ocean floor no one has seen
Hint: Look for something new being discovered.
Question 5
What does exploration mean?
- buying things in a store
- cleaning a room
- staying home to rest
- travelling to find out about new places or ideas
travelling to find out about new places or ideas
Hint: Explorers want to discover what is out there.
Question 6
Which is an example of exploring an idea?
- a crew sailing a ship
- a hiker crossing a desert
- an inventor trying out a new kind of machine
- a rocket leaving Earth
an inventor trying out a new kind of machine
Hint: The inventor is testing something new in the mind and the workshop.