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The Sunpatch Farm Swap

Read about a farm family and a baker, then practice identifying producers, consumers, trade and barter.

Grade 1Social StudiesInteractive · Printable

Aligned toECO.1.4

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  • Single worksheet
  • Auto-graded online
  • 1 C3 Framework standard
  • Printable answer key
  • 15 questions
  • Classroom-ready

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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 1
Subject
Social Studies
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students identify people who produce goods and people who consume goods.
  • Students explain how people trade money or goods for what they need.
  • Students describe barter as trading one good for another without money.

How to use

Read the story aloud and discuss who makes, grows, buys or uses each good. Then have students complete the questions and explain their trade ideas.

Curriculum

C3 Framework standard covered

ECO.1.4

Describe producers and consumers and explain how people trade or barter for what they need.

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The Sunpatch Farm Swap

Learn how producers and consumers trade for what they need.

Read about Sunpatch Farm

Listen as your teacher reads the story. Then answer the questions.

A Farm Town Trade

Sunnybrook is a small farm town. Maya and her grandfather run Sunpatch Farm. They grow beans and gather eggs. Maya takes eggs to Omar's bakery. Omar makes bread. People who grow or make goods are producers.

On market morning, Maya and Omar trade six eggs for one loaf of bread. They use no money. Trading one good for another without money is called barter. Each person gets something needed.

Later, Maya's family uses coins to get salt at a store. At home, Maya's family eats bread, and Omar's family uses the eggs. People who buy or use goods are consumers. A person can be a producer and a consumer.

1.
Why do Maya and Omar trade?
  • A. They want to open another bakery.
  • B. They have no goods to use.
  • C. Each has something the other needs.
  • D. They want to stop making goods.
2.
Match each person or family to the good connected to them in the story.
  1. Maya's family on the farm
  2. Omar
  3. Maya's family at home
  1. A. Eats bread
  2. B. Makes bread
  3. C. Grows beans and gathers eggs

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