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Brookhaven Repair Plans

Students use a neighborhood repair story and graph to identify scarce time, make choices, and name what each choice gives up.

Grade 2Social StudiesInteractive · Printable

Aligned toECO.2.3

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 2
Subject: Social Studies
Question types: Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Short answer

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What students practice

Students explain that limited resources require people to choose.
Students name what people give up when they make an economic choice.
Students use a graph to compare resource needs and plan among choices.

How to use

Read the story and graph together. Ask students to explain why a plan cannot include every project before they complete the questions.

Curriculum

C3 Framework standard covered

ECO.2.3

Explain that scarcity means people must choose, and name what they give up when they choose.

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Brookhaven Repair Plans

Use a neighborhood graph to think about scarcity and choices.

Read about the repair day

Read the story. Study the graph. Then answer the questions.

A Saturday Repair Day

The Brookhaven neighborhood group planned a Saturday repair day. Four projects needed help: fixing a porch ramp, repairing a fence gate, painting a bench, and building a planter box. The group had five volunteer hours. The graph shows how many hours each project would need.

The volunteers wanted to help with every project, but five hours could not cover all four. They chose the porch ramp and the planter box. The ramp took four hours, and the planter box took one hour. The fence gate and the bench had to wait for another day.

Before the work began, the volunteers talked about their plan. They knew that choosing one project could mean leaving another project unfinished. They also knew that a plan could use time wisely without doing every job. Their choice depended on the hours available and the hours each project needed.

Which project needs the fewest volunteer hours?

A. The porch ramp
B. The fence gate
C. The bench
D. The planter box

Why could the volunteers not finish all four projects on Saturday?

A. The projects all needed the same tool.
B. The volunteers had no projects to choose from.
C. The projects together needed more than five hours.
D. The graph showed that each project needed one hour.

Circle the two details that show the volunteers had a scarce resource.

The group had five volunteer hours.Four projects needed help.The repair day was on a Saturday.The group had enough hours for every project.

How many hours would the fence gate and the bench need together?

A. 2 hours
B. 4 hours
C. 5 hours
D. 6 hours

When the volunteers chose the porch ramp and planter box, what did they give up for that day?

A. The porch ramp and the bench
B. The five volunteer hours
C. The fence gate and the bench
D. The planter box and the fence gate

Why could the volunteers not choose both the porch ramp and the fence gate?

A. Neither project needed volunteer help.
B. Both projects needed one hour each.
C. The volunteers had more than seven hours.
D. Together, those projects needed seven hours.

The volunteers must choose between repairing the bench and building the planter box. If they repair the bench, what do they give up?

A. The porch ramp
B. The planter box
C. The fence gate
D. The five volunteer hours

Use the graph to plan

Use the hours in the graph to make careful choices.

If the group had only four hours, which plan could fit exactly?

A. The porch ramp
B. The fence gate and bench
C. The porch ramp and planter box
D. The bench and planter box

The group has five hours and chooses the fence gate and bench. How many hours are left?

A. 0 hours
B. 1 hour
C. 2 hours
D. 3 hours

10.

Which project needs more hours than the bench but fewer hours than the porch ramp?

A. The planter box
B. The fence gate
C. The porch ramp
D. The bench

11.

If the volunteers choose the porch ramp, what is the clearest cost of that choice?

A. They give up using those hours on other projects.
B. They gain three extra volunteer hours.
C. They make the fence gate take fewer hours.
D. They finish the other projects at the same time.

12.

Circle the two plans that show a limited amount of time making people choose.

A team has two hours and chooses the bench instead of the fence gate.A team has ten hours and finishes a one-hour project.A team has four hours and chooses the porch ramp instead of the fence gate.A team looks at the project list before the repair day.

13.

Which pair of projects would leave one hour unused if the group had five hours?