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Goods Made in East Junction

Read about three East Junction producers and explain how natural resources, workers, and tools or machines help make goods.

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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 how producers use natural resources to make goods.
Students identify the workers and tools or machines used to make goods.
Students connect resources, workers and machines in new production plans.

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Read the passage aloud or let students read it independently. Ask students to point to details that show how each good is made before they answer.

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ECO.2.1

Explain how producers use natural resources, workers and tools or machines to make goods.

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Goods Made in East Junction

Learn how city producers turn natural resources into goods.

Read about the makers

Read the passage. Then answer the questions using details from it.

Makers on East Junction Avenue

East Junction is a busy neighborhood in a large city. Along one avenue, three small producers make goods for nearby families. A producer uses materials, workers, and tools or machines to make a good.

At Sunbeam Soap Studio, workers use sunflower seeds and water. An oil press machine gets oil from the seeds. Workers heat the oil with other soap ingredients in a large kettle, pour the mixture into molds, and wrap the bars of soap.

At Corner Crust Bakery, workers measure water and flour made from wheat. A mixer combines them into dough. Bakers shape the dough, and an oven bakes loaves of bread. Workers cool the loaves and place them in bags.

At Little Lantern Toy Shop, a carpenter uses wood from trees to make small wooden cars. A saw cuts the wood into pieces. The carpenter sands the pieces, joins them, and checks each car before it is sold. The wood is a natural resource, while the saw is a machine used to make the good.

What idea connects all three producers in the passage?

A. Each producer sells tools to other workers.
B. Each producer uses materials, people, and equipment to make a good.
C. Each producer makes the same kind of good.
D. Each producer makes food that families eat right away.

Why does the oil press help Sunbeam Soap Studio?

A. It wraps the finished soap for families.
B. It carries the soap from the studio to stores.
C. It checks whether each bar has cooled.
D. It separates oil from the sunflower seeds.

Which item is a natural resource used by one of the producers?

A. Wood from trees
B. A large kettle
C. A dough mixer
D. A wrapping mold

How are Sunbeam Soap Studio and Little Lantern Toy Shop different?

A. The soap studio uses a worker, but the toy shop uses no worker.
B. The soap studio makes food, but the toy shop makes bread.
C. The soap studio starts with seeds, while the toy shop starts with wood.
D. The soap studio uses machines, while the toy shop uses only hands.

Circle the two details that show machines help make goods in the passage.

An oil press gets oil from sunflower seeds.Workers wrap bars of soap.A saw cuts wood into pieces.A carpenter checks each wooden car.

Mei has cotton cloth and a sewing machine for making bags. What else does her plan need?

A. Another kind of natural resource instead of cloth
B. A second sewing machine with no one to use it
C. A worker to guide the machine and make the bags
D. A finished bag that the machine can copy

The saw at Little Lantern Toy Shop stops after it cuts several pieces. Which job could the carpenter still do with those pieces?

A. Sand the cut pieces
B. Get wood from a tree with the saw
C. Cut every new piece with the stopped saw
D. Turn the pieces into wheat dough

Why are workers important in the three businesses?

A. Workers make natural resources grow inside machines.
B. Workers replace every material used to make a good.
C. Workers make tools unnecessary in each business.
D. Workers operate equipment and complete steps machines do not do.

Use what you learned

Use the passage and the production idea to solve each new case.

A student says, “The oven is the natural resource used to make bread.” Which correction is best?

A. The oven is a worker who shapes the dough.
B. The oven is a machine; wheat and water are natural resources.
C. The oven is the finished good that the bakery sells.
D. The oven is a natural resource because it uses heat.

10.

Which list puts the bakery's work in the order described in the passage?

A. Bake the bread, measure materials, bag loaves, mix dough
B. Measure materials, mix dough, bake loaves, bag loaves
C. Bag loaves, shape dough, measure materials, bake loaves
D. Mix dough, bag loaves, measure materials, bake loaves

11.

Which detail from the passage best supports the idea that a worker and a machine can share a job?

A. Families live near the three businesses.
B. The toy shop sells small cars.
C. A baker shapes dough after a mixer combines it.
D. The soap studio makes bars for nearby families.

12.

A producer wants to make wooden shelves. Which change would make the plan complete?

A. Add wood, a carpenter, and a saw to the plan.
B. Add shelves but remove the wood from the plan.
C. Add a saw and remove the worker who uses it.
D. Add a worker but use no material from nature.

13.

Which statement compares the bakery's mixer with the carpenter's work?

A. Both machines sell the finished goods to families.
B. The mixer grows wheat, while the carpenter grows trees.
C. The mixer makes bags, while the carpenter bakes bread.
D. The mixer combines dough materials, while the carpenter joins toy pieces.

14.

Choose one producer from the passage. Explain how that producer uses a natural resource, a worker, and a tool or machine to make a good.

15.

Plan a new good for a city neighborhood. Name one natural resource, one worker job, and one tool or machine the producer could use. Explain how they work together to make the good.