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Kestrel Avenue Kitchen Choices

Read about a city neighborhood kitchen and use scarcity, opportunity cost, and evidence to evaluate economic choices.

Grade 3Social StudiesInteractive · Printable

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Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 3
Subject
Social Studies
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students explain how limited resources create scarcity.
  • Students identify the opportunity cost of an economic choice.
  • Students use evidence to choose a good plan when resources are limited.

How to use

Read the passage together, then have students identify the facts they use as evidence. Review the open responses by asking students to name both a choice and its opportunity cost.

Curriculum

C3 Framework standard covered

ECO.3.1

Explain scarcity and opportunity cost and use them to make a good economic choice.

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Kestrel Avenue Kitchen Choices

Use scarcity and opportunity cost to make neighborhood decisions.

Read the neighborhood report

Read the report about Kestrel Avenue Neighborhood Hub. Then answer the questions.

A Saturday at the Neighborhood Hub

Kestrel Avenue Neighborhood Hub is a small storefront in a busy city neighborhood. On Saturdays, neighbors use its kitchen to prepare free food. The hub has one kitchen, a pantry, and volunteers who give their time. Resources are limited, so the volunteers cannot do every useful activity they imagine.

For the next Saturday, the pantry has a $60 donation and the kitchen is available for 24 volunteer hours. The volunteers are considering two plans. The soup-and-bread plan would make 20 meal containers. It would cost $50 and take 18 hours. The snack-box plan would make 30 snack boxes. It would cost $36 and take 10 hours. Each container or box would go to one neighbor.

The volunteers want to give food to as many neighbors as possible while staying within the money and time available. They cannot carry out both plans: together, the plans would cost $86 and take 28 hours. If the volunteers choose one plan, the other useful plan is the next-best choice they give up. The hub's coordinator asks the volunteers to explain their choice with facts from the report.

1.
Which two resources are limited in the Saturday decision?
  • A. The number of storefronts and city streets
  • B. The number of neighbors and food containers
  • C. The donation money and kitchen hours
  • D. The number of plans and volunteer names
2.
Circle the TWO details that show the hub faces scarcity.

The hub has one kitchen available for 24 volunteer hours.The two plans together would take 28 hours.The hub is in a busy city neighborhood.Each box would go to one neighbor.

3.
Word bank: scarcity · trade · surplus · profit

Because the two plans need more money and hours than the hub has, the hub faces  .

4.

If the hub tried both plans, it would spend $ .

5.
Which plan is the better choice if the hub's goal is to feed as many neighbors as possible?
  • A. The soup-and-bread plan, because it uses more kitchen hours
  • B. The snack-box plan, because it serves 30 neighbors
  • C. The soup-and-bread plan, because it costs more money
  • D. The snack-box plan, because it uses the pantry
6.
If the volunteers choose the snack-box plan, what is the opportunity cost?
  • A. The $36 used for the snack boxes
  • B. The 10 kitchen hours used for the snack boxes
  • C. The 30 neighbors who receive snack boxes
  • D. The soup-and-bread plan they do not carry out

Think about choices

Use the report and the new situations to think about what is scarce and what people give up.

7.
Why can the hub not carry out both plans on Saturday?
  • A. The plans together need more hours and money than the hub has.
  • B. The volunteers prefer not to prepare two kinds of food.
  • C. The pantry has no food for either plan.
  • D. The kitchen can be used for only one neighbor.
8.
The hub has 14 volunteer hours left after choosing the snack-box plan. It can use those hours for either a cooking lesson or delivery of 20 extra snack boxes. If it chooses the cooking lesson, what is its opportunity cost?
  • A. The 14 hours that remain
  • B. The cooking lesson for neighborhood families
  • C. The kitchen used for the lesson
  • D. The 20 extra snack boxes it gives up
9.
A youth group near Kestrel Avenue has $25. It can buy five art kits for $5 each or ten notebooks for $2 each. Its goal is to give supplies to more children. Which choice best meets that goal?
  • A. Buy the art kits because art supplies cost more.
  • B. Buy the art kits because five kits use all the money.
  • C. Buy neither set because the money is limited.
  • D. Buy the notebooks because ten children can receive supplies.
10.
Circle the TWO details that show why the snack-box plan serves more neighbors than the soup-and-bread plan.

The snack-box plan makes 30 boxes.The soup-and-bread plan makes 20 containers.The snack-box plan takes 10 hours.The soup-and-bread plan costs $50.

11.
Match each economic idea to its meaning.
  1. Scarcity
  2. Choice
  3. Opportunity cost
  1. A. The next-best option given up
  2. B. A decision about how to use resources
  3. C. A situation in which resources are limited
12.
Suppose the hub receives a $90 donation but still has only 24 kitchen hours. Could it carry out both original plans?
  • A. Yes, because $90 is more than the combined cost.
  • B. No, because the plans together need 28 hours.
  • C. Yes, because both plans use the same kitchen.
  • D. No, because neither plan costs exactly $90.
13.
Which action shows a good economic choice when resources are limited?
  • A. A club compares two uses of its small budget before buying supplies.
  • B. A club picks a plan without checking what it will give up.
  • C. A club spends its whole budget before listing its goals.
  • D. A club chooses the most expensive item because it costs more.

Show your economic thinking

Use facts and ideas from the report in your answers.

14.
Which Kestrel Avenue plan should the volunteers choose if they want to feed as many neighbors as possible? Use at least two facts from the report to explain why, and name the opportunity cost.
15.
Imagine your neighborhood group has one afternoon and enough money for only one project: planting flowers or repairing a shared bench. What information should the group compare before choosing? Give one possible opportunity cost.

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