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 8 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 school raising the literacy of a whole district, A newspaper reaching villages along the line, An upland village emptied of its young, Crowding raising deaths in neighbouring streets
External costExternal benefit
2.Sort each one: External cost or External benefit?
Sort: Mill smoke settling on nearby washing, A harbour light guiding vessels that pay no dues, A drained marsh improving neighbouring fields, Noise from the harbour at all hours
External costExternal benefit
3.Sort each one: External cost or External benefit?
Sort: A river fouled below the works, Roads worn out by the carts to the quay, Doctors settling where the population grew, Piped water reaching a street it was not laid for
External costExternal benefit
LessonPrint · D2.Eco.8.3-5 · Set 8 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Landing on the Neighbours
Set 8. 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. An upland village emptied of its young — External cost 4. Crowding raising deaths in neighbouring streets — External cost
2.1. A drained marsh improving neighbouring fields — External benefit 2. A harbour light guiding vessels that pay no dues — External benefit 3. Mill smoke settling on nearby washing — External cost 4. Noise from the harbour at all hours — External cost
3.1. A river fouled below the works — External cost 2. Doctors settling where the population grew — External benefit 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
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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