Government and Citizenship

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Government and Citizenship

• Mrs. Martin
• Grade 3

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Learning Goals

• Being a good citizen means that you have rights,
  freedoms, and responsibilities.
• Voting is an important responsibility.
• Government provides us with services people want
  and need.
• In order to pay for services, governments need to
  collect taxes.
• Government makes laws and decides if laws have
  been broken.
• The president is the leader of the United States
  of America

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Citizen

• A citizen is a member of a community.
• Citizens have freedoms, rights, and
  responsibilities.
• As a citizen it is our responsibility to obey the
  laws, to pay taxes, and to vote.

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Citizens

• Citizens vote for our leaders. Voting is an
  important responsibility!
• What other things can citizens do to help
  leaders?
• Paying taxes
• Obeying laws
• voting

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Improving communities

• People work to change and improve their
  communities.
• What are some ways to improve your community?

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laws

• Rules that must be followed in a community.

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Governments provide services

• People in communities want and need services.
• Governments provide us with many services.
• In order to pay for services we must pay taxes to
  the government.

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What services do governments provide us?
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President

• The president is the elected leader of the United
  States of America.
• The citizens of the USA chose him/her.

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President

• President Barack Obama is our current president.