Grade 3 Social Studies practice sheet
Ontario Curriculum · from Gradelings · Name: ______________________
Question 1
How did families keep food from spoiling around 1800?
🧂- with a vending machine
- in an electric fridge
- by salting, drying and storing it in cold cellars
- in a plastic freezer bag
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by salting, drying and storing it in cold cellars
Hint: There were no refrigerators.
Question 2
Put these in order from earliest to latest.
- 🏡The Elgin Settlement begins
- 🗺️Upper and Lower Canada are created
- 🏗️Bytown is founded
- 🧳Loyalists move north
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Loyalists move north → Upper and Lower Canada are created → Bytown is founded → The Elgin Settlement begins
Hint: Loyalists moved north in the 1780s. Upper and Lower Canada were created in 1791. Bytown was founded in 1826. The Elgin Settlement began in 1849.
Question 3
What does 'hardship' mean?
💪- a rule at school
- a time of great difficulty
- a fast boat
- a kind of soup
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a time of great difficulty
Hint: Many people faced hardship in the early 1800s.
Question 4
A good question to ask about a treaty is…
❓- Who made it, and what did each side promise?
- What was its favourite food?
- How tall was it?
- What colour was it?
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Who made it, and what did each side promise?
Hint: Good inquiry questions focus on who, what and why.
Question 5
Which landform region is it? Tap an item, then tap its basket.
Sort into: 🪨 Canadian Shield · 🌾 Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Lowlands · 🦆 Hudson Bay Lowlands
- 🏙️big cities and factories
- 🌫️flat, wet land with muskeg
- 🍑fertile farmland and orchards
- 🛤️few roads and few people
- ⛏️mining towns like Sudbury
- 🪨rocky hills and thousands of lakes
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🪨 Canadian Shield: mining towns like Sudbury, rocky hills and thousands of lakes · 🌾 Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Lowlands: big cities and factories, fertile farmland and orchards · 🦆 Hudson Bay Lowlands: flat, wet land with muskeg, few roads and few people
Hint: The Canadian Shield is rocky with many lakes. The Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Lowlands have farmland and big cities. The Hudson Bay Lowlands are flat and wet.
Question 6
Why might Lakeview have jobs in tourism?
🏖️- it has no people
- it is in the middle of a desert
- it has no water
- it probably has a lake that visitors enjoy
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it probably has a lake that visitors enjoy
Hint: Natural features can draw visitors.
Question 7
In Sudbury, a regreening program planted millions of trees. What was the goal?
🌲- to cut down the forest
- to restore land damaged by mining and smelting
- to build a mall
- to dig more mines
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to restore land damaged by mining and smelting
Hint: Regreening helped the land recover.
Question 8
What does a map legend (or key) show?
🗺️- the weather
- who drew the map
- what the map's symbols mean
- the date today
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what the map's symbols mean
Hint: A legend explains symbols, like a tent for a campground.
Question 9
Is it a continent or an ocean? Tap an item, then tap its basket.
Sort into: 🌍 continent · 🌊 ocean
- 📍Antarctica
- 📍Atlantic
- 📍Asia
- 📍Arctic
- 📍Southern
- 📍Africa
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🌍 continent: Antarctica, Asia, Africa · 🌊 ocean: Atlantic, Arctic, Southern
Hint: Continents are the 7 huge areas of land. Oceans are the 5 huge bodies of salt water between them.
Question 10
Was this part of daily life around 1800, or is it part of life today? Tap an item, then tap its basket.
Sort into: 🕯️ around 1800 · 💡 today
- 🪣carrying water from a well
- 🪶writing with a quill pen
- 💡flipping a light switch
- 🚰water from a tap
- 🚌riding a school bus
- 🛶travelling by canoe or horse
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🕯️ around 1800: carrying water from a well, writing with a quill pen, travelling by canoe or horse · 💡 today: flipping a light switch, water from a tap, riding a school bus
Hint: Around 1800 there was no electricity or running water in homes. Light switches, taps and tablets are part of life today.
Answer key
- 1. by salting, drying and storing it in cold cellars (Life Then & Now)
- 2. Loyalists move north → Upper and Lower Canada are created → Bytown is founded → The Elgin Settlement begins (Communities of the Early 1800s)
- 3. a time of great difficulty (Challenges & Solutions)
- 4. Who made it, and what did each side promise? (Treaties & Allies)
- 5. 🪨 Canadian Shield: mining towns like Sudbury, rocky hills and thousands of lakes · 🌾 Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Lowlands: big cities and factories, fertile farmland and orchards · 🦆 Hudson Bay Lowlands: flat, wet land with muskeg, few roads and few people (Regions of Ontario)
- 6. it probably has a lake that visitors enjoy (Land Use & Jobs)
- 7. to restore land damaged by mining and smelting (Land & the Environment)
- 8. what the map's symbols mean (Map Skills)
- 9. 🌍 continent: Antarctica, Asia, Africa · 🌊 ocean: Atlantic, Arctic, Southern (Maps & Globes)
- 10. 🕯️ around 1800: carrying water from a well, writing with a quill pen, travelling by canoe or horse · 💡 today: flipping a light switch, water from a tap, riding a school bus (Life Then & Now)
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