Grade 6 · Social Studies · Unit 4 of 6
Governments & Rights
Who decides, and whose rights?
What your child practises
Democracy, constitutional monarchy, dictatorship and other systems; how Canada's government works; and rights in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Canadian Charter.
Yukon Curriculum learning standard: Different systems of government; human rights and responses to human rights violations
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
The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007) recognizes rights such as…
- practising and revitalizing their cultures and languages
- owning all the world's oceans
- ignoring all laws
- running every country's army
practising and revitalizing their cultures and languages
Hint: The declaration protects Indigenous peoples' cultures, languages, lands and self-determination.
Question 2
A Canadian, John Humphrey, wrote the first draft of which important document?
- the Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- the Paris Agreement
- the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- the Montreal Protocol
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Hint: He was a law professor who worked at the United Nations in the 1940s.
Question 3
Is it more typical of a democracy or a dictatorship? Tap an item, then tap its basket.
Sort into: 🗳️ democracy · 👤 dictatorship
- 🗳️citizens vote in free and fair elections
- ⚖️leaders must follow the same laws as everyone
- ♾️the leader can rule for life with no limits
- 📜laws change whenever the ruler wants
- 🚫one leader holds power with no real elections
- 🤝power changes hands peacefully after elections
🗳️ democracy: citizens vote in free and fair elections, leaders must follow the same laws as everyone, power changes hands peacefully after elections · 👤 dictatorship: the leader can rule for life with no limits, laws change whenever the ruler wants, one leader holds power with no real elections
Hint: In a democracy, citizens choose leaders and their rights are protected by law. In a dictatorship, one ruler holds power without free elections and can limit people's rights.
Question 4
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child protects everyone under what age?
🧒- 16
- 12
- 21
- 18
18
Hint: The Convention defines a child as anyone below the age of adulthood used in most countries.
Question 5
Who is the head of government in Canada?
🍁- the Chief Justice
- the Governor General
- the Prime Minister
- the King
the Prime Minister
Hint: The King is head of state, but the leader who runs the government day to day is the Prime Minister.
Question 6
Canada is a constitutional monarchy and a…
🍁- absolute monarchy
- parliamentary democracy
- dictatorship
- direct democracy
parliamentary democracy
Hint: Canadians elect Members of Parliament, and the party that can win votes in Parliament forms the government.