Landing on the Neighbours 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 16 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 Neighbours
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, Crowding raising deaths in neighbouring streets, A school raising the literacy of a whole district, Roads worn out by the carts to the quay
External costExternal benefit
2.Sort each one: External cost or External benefit?
Sort: Doctors settling where the population grew, Noise from the harbour at all hours, An upland village emptied of its young, A harbour light guiding vessels that pay no dues
External costExternal benefit
3.Sort each one: External cost or External benefit?
Sort: A drained marsh improving neighbouring fields, Piped water reaching a street it was not laid for, Mill smoke settling on nearby washing, A river fouled below the works
External costExternal benefit
LessonPrint · D2.Eco.8.3-5 · Set 16 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Landing on the Neighbours
Set 16. 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 neighbouring streets — External cost 4. Roads worn out by the carts to the quay — External cost
2.1. A harbour light guiding vessels that pay no dues — External benefit 2. An upland village emptied of its young — External cost 3. Doctors settling where the population grew — External benefit 4. Noise from the harbour at all hours — External cost
3.1. A drained marsh improving neighbouring fields — External benefit 2. A river fouled below the works — External cost 3. Mill smoke settling on nearby washing — 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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