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Trading, Buying and Selling is a free printable Kindergarten to Grade 2 social studies worksheet on ways people exchange goods and services, aligned to C3 Framework indicator D2.Eco.5.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 students 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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Trading, Buying and Selling

D2.Eco.5.K-2

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1.You pay a barber to cut your hair. What are you buying?
  • A.A trade
  • B.A service
  • C.A good
2.A price tag says $3. What does it tell you?
  • A.How much the item costs
  • B.Who made the item
  • C.How old the item is
3.What is a market?
  • A.A place where people buy and sell things
  • B.A kind of school
  • C.A place to sleep
4.Sam swaps his apple for Mia's orange. What is that called?
  • A.Saving
  • B.Trading
  • C.Borrowing
5.Long ago, before there were coins, how did many people get what they needed?
  • A.They traded goods
  • B.They used credit cards
  • C.They shopped online
6.Leo has a sticker and wants a pencil. Kim has a pencil and wants a sticker. What can they do?
  • A.Buy the store
  • B.Trade the sticker for the pencil
  • C.Throw them both away
7.Many people pay with a card or a phone. What does that move from the buyer to the seller?
  • A.Money
  • B.Toys
  • C.Food
8.A farmer takes corn to a market to get money for it. What is the farmer doing?
  • A.Selling
  • B.Buying
  • C.Saving

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Answer key — Trading, Buying and Selling

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  1. 1.A service
  2. 2.How much the item costs
  3. 3.A place where people buy and sell things
  4. 4.Trading
  5. 5.They traded goods
  6. 6.Trade the sticker for the pencil
  7. 7.Money
  8. 8.Selling

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.Eco.5.K-2 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.