Three Words for Hard Times is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on inflation, deflation and unemployment, aligned to Common Core standard D2.Eco.11.3-5. 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 22 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.
Three Words for Hard Times
D2.Eco.11.3-5
NameDate
Sort each one into the right word.
1.Sort each one: Inflation or Deflation or Unemployment?
Sort: A weaver with a loom and no orders, Cloth sells for less than it did, Cotton costs more this year than last
InflationDeflationUnemployment
2.Sort each one: Inflation or Deflation or Unemployment?
Sort: Hands paid off for refusing the new rate, Rents rise across the mill district, The same coin buys more coal than before
InflationDeflationUnemployment
3.Sort each one: Inflation or Deflation or Unemployment?
Sort: An upland labourer with no farm to work on, The same wage buys less bread, Prices fall while debts stay the same
InflationDeflationUnemployment
LessonPrint · D2.Eco.11.3-5 · Set 22 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Three Words for Hard Times
Set 22. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. A weaver with a loom and no orders — Unemployment 2. Cloth sells for less than it did — Deflation 3. Cotton costs more this year than last — Inflation
2.1. Hands paid off for refusing the new rate — Unemployment 2. Rents rise across the mill district — Inflation 3. The same coin buys more coal than before — Deflation
3.1. An upland labourer with no farm to work on — Unemployment 2. Prices fall while debts stay the same — Deflation 3. The same wage buys less bread — Inflation
More practice for D2.Eco.11.3-5
Explain what inflation, deflation and unemployment mean.
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