Questions Worth Asking About Town is a free printable Kindergarten to Grade 2 social studies worksheet on why a question is worth asking, aligned to Common Core standard D1.1.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.

Set 18 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.

One paper per pupil

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

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

Questions Worth Asking About Town

D1.1.K-2

NameDate

Circle the best reason for asking each question.

1.Why is it worth asking 'did children work in this town?'

A.Because children are small
B.Because it tells us how much childhood has changed here
C.Because mills had bells

2.Why is it worth asking 'why did the mill close?'

A.Because mills are old
B.Because the river is wide
C.Because 200 people worked there and the town changed when it went

3.Why is it worth asking 'where does the market fish come from?'

A.Because fish smell
B.Because the town is not on the coast, so somebody brings it
C.Because stalls are numbered

4.Why is it worth asking 'why does the river flood?'

A.Because knowing the cause is the first step to preventing it
B.Because rivers are wet
C.Because floods are exciting

5.Why is it worth asking 'why is the market on a Tuesday?'

A.Because Tuesday is a nice day
B.Because stalls are striped
C.Because the answer probably goes back a very long way

6.Why is it worth asking 'where does our water come from?'

A.Because taps are metal
B.Because water is wet
C.Because the reservoir can run low and everybody depends on it

7.Why is it worth asking 'who paid for the library roof?'

A.Because the money came from the town fund we all pay into
B.Because roofs leak
C.Because libraries are quiet

8.Why is it worth asking 'who lived on Mill Row?'

A.Because rows are straight
B.Because the census can tell us and nobody else remembers
C.Because the houses are small

LessonPrint · D1.1.K-2 · Set 18 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — Questions Worth Asking About Town

Set 18. Prints on its own sheet.

1.Because it tells us how much childhood has changed here
2.Because 200 people worked there and the town changed when it went
3.Because the town is not on the coast, so somebody brings it
4.Because knowing the cause is the first step to preventing it
5.Because the answer probably goes back a very long way
6.Because the reservoir can run low and everybody depends on it
7.Because the money came from the town fund we all pay into
8.Because the census can tell us and nobody else remembers

More practice for D1.1.K-2

Say why a big question matters to you.

Teaching this next? Questions Worth Asking About Town is the 40-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.

All Kindergarten to Grade 2 worksheets

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D1.1.K-2 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.