These are charts, tables, etc. of historical dates and events in chronological order, typically including summaries and illustrations.
What is a timeline?
100
This is a process by which information is exchanged between individuals. Examples are telephones, emails, text, facebook, etc.
What is communication?
100
This level of government that makes and enforces laws for one community. This is what we would call Wadsworth's government.
What is local government?
100
These are the basic freedoms every citizen has that are protected by our government.
What is a right?
100
This is a duty or something a person must do because it is necessary or important. Examples are obeying laws, shoveling snow off your driveway, or volunteering to help out at a local homeless shelter.
What is a responsibility?
200
These are tools, maps, writings, videos, or recordings recovered from historical events when they happened. An example would be an arrowhead found in your woods that Native Americans once used.
What is a primary source?
200
This is something that is found in nature and can be used by people. Examples are water, trees, soil, gold, salt, etc.
What is a natural resources?
200
These are rules in a community or communities put in place to keep people safe.
What is a law?
200
This is a right citizens have to elect the candidate of their choice.
What is vote?
200
This is a citizen's responsibility because they should want to elect the best candidate to a governmental office.
What is vote?
300
This is every ten years. Timelines sometimes record events with these ten year increments.
What is a decade?
300
This is a map that shows landforms, bodies of water and other geographical features. Features shown include mountains, deserts and lowlands as well as lakes, rivers and oceans.
What is a physical map?
300
This a form of local government where the citizens elect the mayor and the mayor is in charge of the police, fire, water, streets, etc. departments within the community.
What is a mayor-council government?
300
This is a freedom protected by our government that allows citizens to express their opinions peacefully.
What is freedom of speech?
300
This is every citizen's responsibility to help pay for schools, roads, government buildings, government vehicles, and government jobs.
What are taxes?
400
These are every 100 years. Timelines are sometimes listed in these 100 year increments.
What is a century?
400
This maps are colorful and are designed to show governmental boundaries of countries and states. They can also indicate the location of major cities, and they usually include significant bodies of water.
What is a political map?
400
This is a form of local government where the citizens elect the city council and then the city council appoints a mayor and hire a city manager who is in charge of the police, fire, water, sanitation, etc. departments.
What is a council-manager government?
400
This is a freedom our government protects that allows citizens to gather peacefully.
What is freedom of assembly?
400
This is a responsibility citizens must do to help courts decide if someone is innocent or guilty.
What is a jury?
500
This is the year Wadsworth was founded.
What is 1816?
500
This is part of geography and describes how an area looks. It includes mountains, plains, valleys, plateaus, rivers, lakes, oceans, streams, etc.
What are physical features?
500
These are the three branches of government that make laws, make sure laws are obeyed, and make sure laws are fair.
What are legislative, executive, and judicial?
500
This is a freedom protected by our government that allows citizens to express their opinions through medias such as T.V., radio, newspapers, and computers.
What is freedom of press?
500
This is doing something for the good of everyone in a community. Examples would be shoveling the snow off your neighbor's driveway, volunteering to donate blood, or picking up a piece of trash that's not yours.