WorksheetsSocial Studies - Community Service
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 30mins
As a citizen, it is important to get involved in community service. Which of the following is the best example of community service in your school?
Making good grades
Coming to school every day
Reading to a younger class
Eating a healthy lunch
Why is it important for a person to stand up for a cause?
People can be helped in a positive way.
It is a way to earn money.
People will work hard together.
It is a way to keep things the same.
Maria lives in Texas. If Maria wants to serve her community, what could she decide to do that would make a difference?
Read a book on the history of her community.
Buy a ticket for the fair in her town.
Sell lemonade in her neighborhood.
Volunteer to work with a group that cleans the city park.
Minnie's Food Pantry is a nonprofit organization that provides healthy meals and resources to people in Collin County. How is Minnie's Food Pantry a nonprofit organization?
It sells the food that is collected.
It gives food to families in need.
It keeps the food for events.
It does not improve the lives of people in the community.
Which good citizen, known as the "Angel of the Battlefield" because of the way she took care of wounded soldiers during the Civil War, started the American Red Cross?
Ruby Bridges
Harriet Tubman
Helen Keller
Clara Barton
A nonprofit organization hears that dangerous storms and tornadoes have affected parts of the United States. How would this organization best use the information to make a decision to help?
They would warn people about the future rain storms.
They would plan how to help people and send supplies.
They would tell students about the dangers of tornadoes.
They would use the information when raising money for the organization.
Which of the following is NOT an example of a nonprofit organization?
Habitat for Humanity
American Red Cross
Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts
Target or Walmart
Give two examples of how nonprofit organizations serve the common good.
The Salvation Army gives clothes to people in a flood.
Walmart has a sale on purple socks.
The Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts help promote education and leadership.
Goodwill sells clothes in their store.
What did Mary McLeod Bethune do to serve the community?
She opened a bookstore.
She opened a school for African American girls and a hospital to help the wounded during the war.
She had a food drive to give food to the hungry people.
She was a firefighter.
What is a volunteer?
a person in a folktale
a person who gets paid for helping others
a person who serves others without being paid
I don't know.
