What the Town Must Have is a free printable Kindergarten to Grade 2 social studies worksheet on scarcity and choosing, aligned to Common Core standard D2.Eco.1.K-2. It prints 3 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 8 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. All 25 sets ask different questions.
What the Town Must Have
D2.Eco.1.K-2
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Sort each one into need or want.
1.Sort each one: Need or Want?
Sort: Mending the library roof before winter, Coal to heat the school, Flower baskets on the lamp posts, Painting the town hall gold
NeedWant
2.Sort each one: Need or Want?
Sort: A fountain in the Market Square, Repairing the flooded roads, A brass band for the market, A safe bridge over the river
NeedWant
3.Sort each one: Need or Want?
Sort: New banners for the bridge, Raising the river wall, A statue of a mill owner, Clean water in the reservoir
NeedWant
LessonPrint · D2.Eco.1.K-2 · Set 8 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — What the Town Must Have
Set 8. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Coal to heat the school — Need 2. Flower baskets on the lamp posts — Want 3. Mending the library roof before winter — Need 4. Painting the town hall gold — Want
2.1. A brass band for the market — Want 2. A fountain in the Market Square — Want 3. A safe bridge over the river — Need 4. Repairing the flooded roads — Need
3.1. A statue of a mill owner — Want 2. Clean water in the reservoir — Need 3. New banners for the bridge — Want 4. Raising the river wall — Need
More practice for D2.Eco.1.K-2
Explain that because there is never enough of everything, people have to choose.
Teaching this next? What the Town Must Have is the 40-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.