Effects on People Not in the Deal is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on external benefits and costs, aligned to Common Core standard D2.Eco.8.3-5. 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 13 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.
Effects on People Not in the Deal
D2.Eco.8.3-5
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Sort each effect into cost or benefit.
1.Sort each one: External cost or External benefit?
Sort: Newspapers reaching the valley the day they are printed, Noise waking a village at seven each morning, Sparks setting fire to a hedge beside the line, A station lamp lighting the lane at night
External costExternal benefit
2.Sort each one: External cost or External benefit?
Sort: Smoke from engines falling on nearby fields, Roads torn up by carts going to the station, A doctor able to reach distant patients quickly, Post arriving next day for everybody, not only rail users
External costExternal benefit
3.Sort each one: External cost or External benefit?
Sort: A canal left silted after traffic moved away, Wharf families losing work they did not choose to lose, A village shop gaining custom from travellers, Neighbours learning of a new crop from travellers
External costExternal benefit
LessonPrint · D2.Eco.8.3-5 · Set 13 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Effects on People Not in the Deal
Set 13. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. A station lamp lighting the lane at night — External benefit 2. Newspapers reaching the valley the day they are printed — External benefit 3. Noise waking a village at seven each morning — External cost 4. Sparks setting fire to a hedge beside the line — External cost
2.1. A doctor able to reach distant patients quickly — External benefit 2. Post arriving next day for everybody, not only rail users — External benefit 3. Roads torn up by carts going to the station — External cost 4. Smoke from engines falling on nearby fields — External cost
3.1. A canal left silted after traffic moved away — External cost 2. A village shop gaining custom from travellers — External benefit 3. Neighbours learning of a new crop from travellers — External benefit 4. Wharf families losing work they did not choose to lose — External cost
More practice for D2.Eco.8.3-5
Give examples where a choice affects people who were not part of it.