Take a Side and Show Your Working is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on constructing an argument from claims and evidence, aligned to Common Core standard D4.1.3-5. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 15 of them with 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 17 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.

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Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. 15 of these 25 sets ask different questions — this skill does not have 25 questions to give. The rest reorder them, so no two pupils have the same paper in front of them.

Take a Side and Show Your Working

D4.1.3-5

NameDate

Write your answer. Use the checklist.

1.Argue whether piped water should have come before new schools.

State your position
Use the health table
Answer the other side

2.Argue whether the board was right to end half-time working.

State your position
Use the minute
Answer the families' objection

LessonPrint · D4.1.3-5 · Set 17 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — Take a Side and Show Your Working

Set 17. Prints on its own sheet.

1.A position on whether piped water should have come before new schools, using the health table and answering the other side.
2.A position on ending half-time working, using the board minute and answering the objection that families depend on the wage.

More practice for D4.1.3-5

Make an argument using claims and evidence from several sources.

Teaching this next? Take a Side and Show Your Working is the 50-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D4.1.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.