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One Fair Day, Many Choices

Students read about county fair choices and identify scarce resources and what people give up when they choose.

Grade 2Social StudiesInteractive · Printable

Aligned toECO.2.3

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 2
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 explain that scarcity means resources are limited.
Students identify what a person or group gives up when making a choice.
Students connect choices to limited time, tokens, and space.

How to use

Read the passage aloud, discuss the limited resources in each example, and then have students complete the questions independently.

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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One Fair Day, Many Choices

Learn how limited resources lead to choices.

Read about the fair

Read the passage. Then answer the questions.

Choices at Pine County Fair

At Pine County Fair, people want many things, but resources are limited. Resources are things used to meet wants, such as money, time, and space. Because resources are scarce, a person or group must choose. In this passage, the cost of a choice is what someone gives up.

Aisha has one hour before her ride home. She wants to ride the Ferris wheel and make a seed craft. Each activity takes the whole hour, so she chooses the seed craft. She gives up the Ferris wheel ride.

The fair committee has room for one more activity booth. Members choose a puppet booth instead of a pie-decorating booth. The pie-decorating booth is what they give up.

On Saturday, Mateo has 4 fair tokens. He can use 3 tokens for a game or 4 tokens for a snack basket. He chooses the game and keeps 1 token. He gives up the snack basket. He cannot buy both because he has only 4 tokens and the two choices together need 7 tokens.

Scarcity does not mean there is nothing. It means there is not enough of a resource for every want, so choices are needed.

Which sentence best explains why people at the fair must choose?