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What Local Jobs Need is a free printable Kindergarten to Grade 2 social studies worksheet on skills needed to make things, aligned to Common Core standard D2.Eco.3.K-2. It prints 2 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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What Local Jobs Need

D2.Eco.3.K-2

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Draw a line from each job to the skill it needs.

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Answer key — What Local Jobs Need

Set 1. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Park keeper — D (Knows when to cut the grass) 2. Bus driver — C (Knows the route and the timetable) 3. Bin lorry crew — B (Knows the order of the streets) 4. Greengrocer — A (Knows which fruit is ripe)
  2. 2.1. Librarian — D (Knows where every book belongs) 2. Baker — B (Knows how long the dough must rise) 3. Postal worker — A (Knows every house on the round) 4. Road mender — C (Knows how to lay tarmac flat)

Questions about What Local Jobs Need

What does the What Local Jobs Need worksheet cover?

It practises skills needed to make things — 2 questions for Kindergarten to Grade 2, all on Common Core D2.Eco.3.K-2: Describe the skills somebody needs to make a particular thing. The instruction to pupils is “Draw a line from each job to the skill it needs”, and the answer key follows on the next sheet.

Which Common Core standard does What Local Jobs Need practise?

D2.Eco.3.K-2 — D2.Eco.3.K-2, in the Economics domain for Kindergarten to Grade 2. The published standard reads: “Describe the skills and knowledge required to produce certain goods and services.” The worksheet assesses that standard rather than a paraphrase of it.

What age or grade is this worksheet for?

What Local Jobs Need is written for Kindergarten to Grade 2, typically ages 7-8. It is one of the sheets on D2.Eco.3.K-2, so it suits any pupil working at that standard — including older pupils revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.

Does What Local Jobs Need come with an answer key?

Yes. All 2 answers are generated from the same problems as the questions, so the key cannot drift out of step with the sheet. It starts on a fresh sheet of paper, after the questions, so it is not handed out with the class by accident.

How many different versions of What Local Jobs Need can I print?

25 — one per pupil, and all 25 ask different questions. Set 1 downloads the whole class as a single PDF. Every version is fixed to its own address, so a sheet printed today holds the same problems when you reopen it next week.

Is What Local Jobs Need free to print and photocopy?

Yes. What Local Jobs Need, its answer key and its 25 versions are free to print and photocopy for your own class, with no account, no email capture and no subscription at the download step. Please do not resell them or republish them as your own.

Is there a lesson plan to teach D2.Eco.3.K-2?

Yes — “What Local Jobs Need” is a 40-minute Kindergarten to Grade 2 plan for D2.Eco.3.K-2, timed section by section, with the misconceptions to expect and an exit ticket. What Local Jobs Need is the practice that follows it.

More practice for D2.Eco.3.K-2

Describe the skills somebody needs to make a particular thing.

Teaching this next? What Local Jobs Need 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.3.K-2 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.