Civics
_____ is knowing the rights and responsibilities of being a community member.
What is civics?
_____ is learning about events and people in the past.
What is history?
_____ is a group of people who make laws and help organize how a town or country is run.
What is government?
_____ is about how people make, save, and spend money in a country.
What is economics?
_____ is learning about places and how people live in them.
What is geography?
This word means, "something you can do that is protected by the law."
(Word bank: rule, responsibility, or right)
What is a right?
This is NOT part of history.
(Options: the future, art, inventions)
What is the future?
This is the leader of Johnston's town government.
What is the mayor?
Also acceptable, what is the town council?
What is a need?
This is the town you live in.
What is Johnston?
This word means, "something you should do to help the community."
(Word bank: rule, responsibility, or right)
What is a responsibility?
This IS part of history.
(Options: fantasy, events, science fiction)
What are events?
This group of people help the mayor make the laws for the town of Johnston.
What is the Town Council?
A _____ is something you would like to have to make your life better.
What is a want?
This is the name of the state you live in.
What is Rhode Island?
This is one right a citizen has.
Answers will vary but could include, "What is...?"
voting, speech, religion, free education
This is one important person in history and something he or she did.
Who is...?
Answers will vary. Teacher decides if answers are correct.
Besides making laws, this is something else the local government does for its people.
Answers will vary. What is...?
provide schools, make roads, provide police officers and firefighters, etc.
This is how much 3 dimes, 1 nickel, and 4 pennies is worth altogether.
What is 39 cents? ($0.39)
This is the name of the country you live in.
What is the United States?
This is one responsibility you have outside your home as a citizen.
Answers will vary but could include, "What is...?"
no littering, obey the laws, pay taxes, voteThis is one important event in history.
What is...?
Answers will vary. Teacher decides if answer is correct.
He is the mayor of Johnston.
Who is Joseph Polisena?
This is how much 2 quarters, 1 dime, 2 nickels, and 1 penny is worth altogether.
What is 71 cents? ($0.71)
This is the name of the town Mrs. St. Pierre lives in.
What is Glocester?