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Choices at the Plover Isle Workshop

Read about an island workshop and explain how limited boards, time and coins lead people to make choices and give something up.

Grade 2Social StudiesInteractive · Printable

Aligned toECO.2.3

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  • 1 C3 Framework standard
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  • 15 questions
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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 2
Subject
Social Studies
Question types
Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students explain that scarcity means a resource is limited compared with people's wants.
  • Students identify what people give up when they choose one option over another.
  • Students apply the ideas of scarcity and opportunity cost to new situations.

How to use

Read the island workshop story aloud or have students read it independently. Discuss the limited resources before students answer and explain their thinking.

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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Choices at the Plover Isle Workshop

Learn how limited resources lead to choices.

Read the workshop story

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

A Busy Day at Plover Isle

Plover Isle is a small island community. A ferry brings building supplies only a few times each week. Rina and her grandfather, Tomas, run a canoe-repair workshop beside the harbor. Before the Saturday tide race, they have five straight cedar boards and three hours of work time.

A new paddle needs three boards and two hours to make. A small canoe seat also needs three boards and two hours. Jo asks for a paddle for the race, and the Harbor Café asks for a seat. Rina and Tomas cannot finish both jobs. They choose to make Jo's paddle because the race is Saturday morning. By choosing the paddle, they give up the chance to make the seat that afternoon.

After they pay for lunch, the workshop has eight island coins. Rina wants to buy rope for a boat repair. Tomas wants to buy blue paint for a sign. The rope costs six coins, and the paint costs five coins. They cannot buy both because together they cost eleven coins. They buy the rope, so the blue paint is what they give up.

The boards, work time and coins are scarce resources for the workshop. Scarcity means there is not enough of a resource to have everything people want. When people choose one use for a scarce resource, they give up another use.

1.
Why do Rina and Tomas have to choose between making the paddle and making the seat?
  • A. The harbor has no customers for either job.
  • B. Their boards and work time are not enough for both jobs.
  • C. The ferry carries too many finished canoes.
  • D. Jo and the café ask for the same kind of item.
2.
What did the workshop give up when it chose to make Jo's paddle?
  • A. The chance to make the café's canoe seat
  • B. The five cedar boards for the workshop
  • C. The three hours before the tide race
  • D. The chance to repair Jo's old paddle

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