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B. People and Environments · The Local Community

The Local Community: Unit Review

B1 B1.1 B1.2 B2 B2.2 B2.5 B2.6 B3 B3.1 B3.2 B3.6About 40 minutes
Learning goals
  • I can sort natural and built features and tell how they meet needs.
  • I can describe areas of my community and whose traditional territory it is on.
  • I can name community services and workers.
  • I can read and make simple maps with symbols and a legend.
  • I can describe how people and the environment affect each other.
  • I can investigate my community and share what I found.

Words to know

natural feature
Made by nature, like a lake or hill.
built feature
Made by people, like a road or school.
service
Work that helps people meet their needs.
legend
A box that shows what the symbols on a map mean.
traditional territory
Land an Indigenous nation has lived on and cared for since long ago, and still does today.

Let's review!

You have learned a lot about your local community: its features, areas and services, how to read and make maps, how people and the environment affect each other, and how to investigate. This review has a few questions from every lesson. Try each one, then press Show answer to check. If a part feels tricky, go back to that lesson.

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A map shows a place from above, like a bird's-eye view. From above you see the roof of the house and the top of the tree.
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Tally marks are bundled in fives: four marks and a fifth one across. Count by fives, then count on.

Natural and Built Features

1

Sort: river, library, forest, bridge.

2

How does farmland help people meet their needs?

3

Is a park natural or built?

Places in Our Community and the Land We Live On

1

Name two areas found in many communities.

2

What does the legend on a map tell you?

3

What is a traditional territory?

4

Name one way to find out whose traditional territory you live on.

Community Services and Workers

1

Who drives an ambulance?

2

What number do you call in an emergency in Canada?

3

What might happen if no one picked up garbage for a month?

Maps, Symbols and Legends

1

A map shows a place from where?

2

On the grid map, how many squares from home (H) to school (S)?

3

Name a non-standard unit for measuring distance.

People and the Environment Affect Each Other

1

Give one way the environment affects people in winter.

2

Is the noise from building a road short-term or long-term?

3

Name one way to reduce garbage.

Investigating Our Community

1

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2

Ravi counted 12 walkers, 5 bus riders and 3 car riders. What is his conclusion?

3

Name two ways to share your findings.

Just for fun

Knock, knock. Who's there? Map. Map who?

Map-be you should check the legend first!

How to use this review

  • Do the review in two short sittings if your child gets tired. Each section matches one lesson.
  • Keep the maps from the lessons open so your child can look back at them.
  • Many questions have more than one good answer. Accept answers that make sense, and ask "How do you know?"
  • Note which section was tricky, then revisit that lesson's activity.
Check your understanding

Quiz

1.

Which is a natural feature?

2.

Which is a built feature?

3.

On a map, what tells you what each colour means?

4.

Every community in Ontario is on...

5.

Who keeps roads clear in winter?

6.

Which service helps you borrow books?

7.

A symbol on a map is...

8.

Kit walks 10 steps to the tree and 15 steps to the fence. Which is farther?

9.

Planting a tree that will give shade years from now is a...

10.

After you gather and sort your information, what do you do?

For parents and teachers

Use mistakes to choose what to revisit. Each review section matches one lesson.

  • Mixes up natural and built features, or can't say how they meet needs: revisit Natural and Built Features and do another feature hunt.
  • Can't describe areas, ignores the legend, or doesn't know what traditional territory means: revisit Places in Our Community and the Land We Live On, and look up your community's territory together.
  • Unsure which worker does what, or when to call 9-1-1: revisit Community Services and Workers.
  • Draws side views, confuses left and right, or miscounts squares: revisit Maps, Symbols and Legends and build a toy model to map.
  • Sees only one direction of cause and effect, or mixes short-term and long-term: revisit People and the Environment Affect Each Other.
  • Struggles with tallies or makes conclusions without evidence: revisit Investigating Our Community and do a short tally walk.

Praise good reasoning. Many social studies questions have more than one right answer.