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1st grade · Social Studies · Unit 12 of 15

Leaders & Citizens

Mayors, governors and voting

What your child practices

Public offices in the community and state (mayor, city council, governor, state legislature, tribal council), how voting helps people decide, and how citizens help the common good.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: 1.1; 1.2 · citizens' rights and responsibilities, voting, and public offices in the community and state

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. A mayor leads a city. A governor leads a state.
  2. In a fair vote, the choice with the most votes wins.
  3. Citizens follow laws and help others.

Example: In a class vote, which choice wins? Count the votes. The biggest number wins. Answer: the one with the most votes

Leaders & Citizens in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 12 of 15 in 1st grade Social Studies, after Alabama on the Map and before Alabama at Work.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Police officers help keep a community…

    • dirty
    • safe
    • empty
    • loud

  2. Question 2

    Who leads a city's government?

    • the mayor
    • the president
    • the judge
    • the governor

  3. Question 3

    A city council…

    • grows food
    • delivers mail
    • makes rules for a city
    • drives the school bus

  4. Question 4

    Where does Alabama's state legislature meet?

    • Montgomery
    • Mobile
    • Dothan
    • Huntsville

  5. Question 5

    In a fair class vote, the choice that wins is the one with…

    • the most votes
    • the longest name
    • the fewest votes
    • the loudest fans

  6. Question 6

    Why do we have laws?

    • so no one plays
    • to make people sad
    • to keep people safe and treated fairly
    • for no reason

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