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 C3 Framework indicator 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 students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.
Set 25 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: A station lamp lighting the lane at night, Noise waking a village at seven each morning, Neighbors learning of a new crop from travelers, Wharf families losing work they did not choose to lose
External costExternal benefit
2.Sort each one: External cost or External benefit?
Sort: A doctor able to reach distant patients quickly, A village store gaining custom from travelers, A canal left silted after traffic moved away, Roads torn up by carts going to the station
External costExternal benefit
3.Sort each one: External cost or External benefit?
Sort: Newspapers reaching the valley the day they are printed, Mail arriving next day for everybody, not only rail users, Smoke from engines falling on nearby fields, Sparks setting fire to a hedge beside the line
External costExternal benefit
LessonPrint · D2.Eco.8.3-5 · Set 25 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Effects on People Not in the Deal
Set 25. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. A station lamp lighting the lane at night — External benefit 2. Neighbors learning of a new crop from travelers — External benefit 3. Noise waking a village at seven each morning — External cost 4. Wharf families losing work they did not choose to lose — External cost
2.1. A canal left silted after traffic moved away — External cost 2. A doctor able to reach distant patients quickly — External benefit 3. A village store gaining custom from travelers — External benefit 4. Roads torn up by carts going to the station — External cost
3.1. Mail arriving next day for everybody, not only rail users — External benefit 2. Newspapers reaching the valley the day they are printed — External benefit 3. Smoke from engines falling on nearby fields — External cost 4. Sparks setting fire to a hedge beside the line — External cost
More practice for D2.Eco.8.3-5
Give examples where a choice affects people who were not part of it.