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The Cost of Choosing is a free printable Kindergarten to Grade 2 social studies worksheet on the cost of a choice, aligned to Common Core standard D2.Eco.2.K-2. It prints 8 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. All 25 sets ask different questions.

The Cost of Choosing

D2.Eco.2.K-2

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Circle the best answer.

1.The street spends the fair money on trees. What is given up?
  • A.Whatever else the money could have bought
  • B.The trees
  • C.The fair
2.The fair closes the road all day. What is the cost?
  • A.Drivers cannot use the road
  • B.The cake stall
  • C.The fair
3.You spend Saturday at the library. What do you give up?
  • A.The library
  • B.Saturday
  • C.Whatever else you could have done that day
4.You spend your bus fare on sweets. What do you give up?
  • A.The bus ride you needed
  • B.The sweets
  • C.Nothing at all
5.You buy oranges instead of apples. What do you give up?
  • A.The oranges
  • B.The shop
  • C.The apples you could have had
6.You catch the 10 bus instead of the 12. What do you give up?
  • A.The Market Square
  • B.The bus
  • C.Two more hours at home
7.You borrow six books and read one. What was the cost?
  • A.Nothing
  • B.Five books somebody else could have borrowed
  • C.The one you read
8.The council builds a playground on the car park. What is given up?
  • A.The parking spaces that were there
  • B.The playground
  • C.The council

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Answer key — The Cost of Choosing

Set 15. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.Whatever else the money could have bought
  2. 2.Drivers cannot use the road
  3. 3.Whatever else you could have done that day
  4. 4.The bus ride you needed
  5. 5.The apples you could have had
  6. 6.Two more hours at home
  7. 7.Five books somebody else could have borrowed
  8. 8.The parking spaces that were there

More practice for D2.Eco.2.K-2

Name what you gain and what you give up when you make a choice.

Teaching this next? The Cost of Choosing is the 40-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.Eco.2.K-2 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.