Landing on the Neighbors 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.
Landing on the Neighbors
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: Crowding raising deaths in neighboring streets, A newspaper reaching villages along the line, Mill smoke settling on nearby washing, A school raising the literacy of a whole district
External costExternal benefit
2.Sort each one: External cost or External benefit?
Sort: An upland village emptied of its young, Roads worn out by the carts to the quay, A harbor light guiding vessels that pay no dues, A drained marsh improving neighboring fields
External costExternal benefit
3.Sort each one: External cost or External benefit?
Sort: Noise from the harbor at all hours, Piped water reaching a street it was not laid for, Doctors settling where the population grew, A river fouled below the works
External costExternal benefit
LessonPrint · D2.Eco.8.3-5 · Set 4 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Landing on the Neighbors
Set 4. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. A newspaper reaching villages along the line — External benefit 2. A school raising the literacy of a whole district — External benefit 3. Crowding raising deaths in neighboring streets — External cost 4. Mill smoke settling on nearby washing — External cost
2.1. A drained marsh improving neighboring fields — External benefit 2. A harbor light guiding vessels that pay no dues — External benefit 3. An upland village emptied of its young — External cost 4. Roads worn out by the carts to the quay — External cost
3.1. A river fouled below the works — External cost 2. Doctors settling where the population grew — External benefit 3. Noise from the harbor at all hours — External cost 4. Piped water reaching a street it was not laid for — External benefit
More practice for D2.Eco.8.3-5
Give examples where a choice affects people who were not part of it.
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