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Snowy Sidewalk Choices

Analyze a snowy town's limited sandbag supply, identify opportunity costs, and choose a plan using evidence from a bar graph.

Grade 3Social StudiesInteractive · Printable

Aligned toECO.3.1

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

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What students practice

Students explain how limited resources create scarcity.
Students identify the opportunity cost of an economic choice.
Students use data and needs to make a good economic choice.

How to use

Read the town report and study the graph together. Ask students to explain what a choice gives up before they complete the final responses.

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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Snowy Sidewalk Choices

Use a town graph to think about scarcity and opportunity cost.

A limited supply

Read the report about Northstar Glen. Then answer the questions.

Sandbags for Northstar Glen

1Northstar Glen is a small town in a snowy northern region. In early winter, melting snow froze on several paths. The town had 24 bags of sand to spread on icy walkways. Sand helps people walk more safely, but the town could not get more bags until the next delivery.

2Four places asked for sand. The health clinic requested 8 bags for its entrance path. The bus loop requested 10 bags because people use it to get to work and school. The library requested 6 bags, and the skating rink requested 4 bags. The requests added up to more bags than the town had.

3The town committee decided to put paths used for health care and transportation first. Then it would help the library before the skating rink. Committee members knew that choosing one use for the sand meant giving up another use. That forgone choice is called the opportunity cost.

4The committee wanted to make a good economic choice: use the limited sand where it would help with the most important needs. It also planned to record which places still needed sand so it could make a better plan when the next delivery arrived.

What problem does the town committee need to solve?