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 6 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: A newspaper reaching villages along the line, Piped water reaching a street it was not laid for, Roads worn out by the carts to the quay, Noise from the harbor at all hours
External costExternal benefit
2.Sort each one: External cost or External benefit?
Sort: A harbor light guiding vessels that pay no dues, Mill smoke settling on nearby washing, A river fouled below the works, A drained marsh improving neighboring fields
External costExternal benefit
3.Sort each one: External cost or External benefit?
Sort: Crowding raising deaths in neighboring streets, An upland village emptied of its young, A school raising the literacy of a whole district, Doctors settling where the population grew
External costExternal benefit
LessonPrint · D2.Eco.8.3-5 · Set 6 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Landing on the Neighbors
Set 6. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. A newspaper reaching villages along the line — External benefit 2. Noise from the harbor at all hours — External cost 3. Piped water reaching a street it was not laid for — External benefit 4. Roads worn out by the carts to the quay — 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. A river fouled below the works — External cost 4. Mill smoke settling on nearby washing — External cost
3.1. A school raising the literacy of a whole district — External benefit 2. An upland village emptied of its young — External cost 3. Crowding raising deaths in neighboring streets — External cost 4. Doctors settling where the population grew — 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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