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Choices at Westbridge Community Center

Read about a small river town center with limited time and several projects, then explain scarcity, opportunity cost, and good economic choices.

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Aligned toECO.3.1

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Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 3
Subject
Social Studies
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Sorting, 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 and ask students to underline details about limited resources. Have students explain their final choices with evidence and a clear 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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Choices at Westbridge Community Center

Use scarcity and opportunity cost to make a good neighborhood choice.

Read about Westbridge

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

One Saturday at the Community Center

Westbridge is a small town beside a river. The community center has one Saturday crew of volunteers. This month, the crew has only 8 hours to work because its members have other jobs and family plans. The center also has enough lumber for only one project.

The neighborhood committee must choose one project. Repairing two benches outside the center takes all 8 hours. Building three produce crates for the food pantry takes 5 hours. Painting four signs to help visitors find the center takes 3 hours. The crew cannot finish two projects in the same Saturday.

The committee gathers information before choosing. A safety check says one bench is loose and should be repaired soon. The food pantry can use its current boxes for another month. Visitors have asked for signs, but they can use the center's front door and a paper map for now. The committee ranks the bench repair first, the crates second, and the signs third.

The crew's time and lumber are scarce resources: the center has less of them than it needs to complete every possible project. The committee chooses the bench repair. It gives up the other two projects for now. The choice uses limited resources for the need the committee considers most urgent.

1.
What economic problem does the Westbridge committee face?
  • A. The center has several projects but not enough resources to finish them all.
  • B. The volunteers want to work longer than the center allows.
  • C. The food pantry has no boxes for any future deliveries.
  • D. Visitors are unable to enter the community center.
2.
Circle the TWO details that show the center has scarce resources.

The Saturday crew has only 8 hours to work.The center has enough lumber for only one project.The center is in a small river town.Visitors can use a paper map.

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