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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

NameDate

Circle the best answer.

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

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Answer key — The Cost of Choosing

Set 25. Prints on its own sheet.

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

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.