This is someone who lives and belongs to a community.
What is a citizen?
100
This is the name for a group of people who work and play together. (People may belong to many of these groups, such as a family, school, neighborhood, or city.)
What is a community?
100
This is a word that means "to take part" in an activity.
What is participate?
100
Citizens do this to elect or choose the leader who will do the best job. (Citizens choose from a list of names called a "ballot.")
What is vote?
100
This is the term for the group of citizens that leads or "governs" a community.
What is government?
200
At North Forest Pines, this word helps you remember to be a good citizen in the hallways, bathrooms, and other areas of the school. The letters of this word stand for different rules to follow.
What is "SOAR"?
200
This is the community that you belong to that is bigger than your classroom but smaller than your city or town.
What is school (or North Forest Pines)?
200
This is one of the government services that would arrive to help if a citizen called 911.
What is the fire department OR What is the police?
200
This is the type of community that has a mayor as its leader.
What is a town or city?
200
This is the term for rules that people in a community must follow, such as stopping at a red light.
What is a law?
300
This is a person who helps others without being paid (for example, building houses or delivering meals to those who need them).
What is a volunteer?
300
If you found someone's wallet on the playground but turned it in to the office, this is the SOAR rule that you would be following.
What is "Acting Responsibly"?
300
This is how a responsible citizen would probably react to finding litter in the park.
What is picking up the litter and throwing it away?
300
This is the event that takes place when citizens vote for or "elect" their leaders.
What is an election?
300
This is the role of a person who decides whether someone has broken a law. (This person is in charge of a court.)
What is a judge?
400
This word means "something you should take care of or do," such as your assigned job in the classroom.
What is responsibility?
400
This is the community you belong to that you would be helping if you set the table for dinner.
What is family?
400
This is the term for money that citizens pay to the government to help pay for services like schools, libraries, garbage collection, and road repairs.
What is a tax?
400
This is the group of leaders that works along with the mayor to help make decisions for a community.
What is a council?
400
This document is a written set of laws that protects the rights of U.S. citizens.
What is the Constitution?
500
This would likely be a consequence of blurting out in class and interrupting the teacher without raising your hand to speak.
What is clipping down?
500
This is a way that the volunteer group called "Suitcases for Kids" helps the community.
What is collecting suitcases to be used by kids in foster care?
500
Places where people meet to work or play, such as a soccer field, park, or community arts center, are this kind of environment.
What is a social environment?
500
This is the title of the leader of the United States, who is elected every four years by the country's citizens.
What is president?
500
This is one example of a right, or freedom, protected in the U.S. Constitution.
What is freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, OR the right to meet peacefully in groups?