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 4 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, Roads torn up by carts going to the station, Noise waking a village at seven each morning, A doctor able to reach distant patients quickly
External costExternal benefit
2.Sort each one: External cost or External benefit?
Sort: Smoke from engines falling on nearby fields, A village store gaining custom from travelers, Sparks setting fire to a hedge beside the line, Neighbors learning of a new crop from travelers
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, Wharf families losing work they did not choose to lose, A canal left silted after traffic moved away
External costExternal benefit
LessonPrint · D2.Eco.8.3-5 · Set 4 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Effects on People Not in the Deal
Set 4. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. A doctor able to reach distant patients quickly — External benefit 2. A station lamp lighting the lane at night — External benefit 3. Noise waking a village at seven each morning — External cost 4. Roads torn up by carts going to the station — External cost
2.1. A village store gaining custom from travelers — External benefit 2. Neighbors learning of a new crop from travelers — External benefit 3. Smoke from engines falling on nearby fields — External cost 4. Sparks setting fire to a hedge beside the line — External cost
3.1. A canal left silted after traffic moved away — External cost 2. Mail arriving next day for everybody, not only rail users — External benefit 3. Newspapers reaching the valley the day they are printed — 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.