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Government, Council or Neither? is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on structure of government and what lies outside it, aligned to Common Core standard D2.Civ.5.3-5. It prints 3 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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Government, Council or Neither?

D2.Civ.5.3-5

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Sort each action into who does it.

LessonPrint · D2.Civ.5.3-5 · Set 17 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — Government, Council or Neither?

Set 17. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Laying a white paper before Parliament — National government 2. Publishing a history of the period — Neither: private body 3. Reporting completions to a committee — City council
  2. 2.1. Deciding which cleared sites to build on — City council 2. Selecting which letters to print — Neither: private body 3. Setting the national housing target — National government
  3. 3.1. Allocating scarce materials between regions — National government 2. Choosing to build upward on cleared land — City council 3. Deciding what a newspaper reports — Neither: private body

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.Civ.5.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.