What Pushes and What Pulls is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on positive and negative incentives, aligned to Common Core standard D2.Eco.2.3-5. 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 7 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.
What Pushes and What Pulls
D2.Eco.2.3-5
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Sort each one into reward or penalty.
1.Sort each one: Positive incentive or Negative incentive?
Sort: Being paid off for refusing the new rate, A prize for the cleanest street, Higher dues on an overloaded vessel, A bonus for a full year without absence
Positive incentiveNegative incentive
2.Sort each one: Positive incentive or Negative incentive?
Sort: An assisted passage for a family with no fare, A fine for keeping a child from school, No pay for a shift arrived late to, A free school place with a meal
Positive incentiveNegative incentive
3.Sort each one: Positive incentive or Negative incentive?
Sort: Higher wages for a skilled spinner, Losing relief if you leave the district, No refund if you miss the sailing, Cheaper dues for regular shippers
Positive incentiveNegative incentive
LessonPrint · D2.Eco.2.3-5 · Set 7 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — What Pushes and What Pulls
Set 7. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. A bonus for a full year without absence — Positive incentive 2. A prize for the cleanest street — Positive incentive 3. Being paid off for refusing the new rate — Negative incentive 4. Higher dues on an overloaded vessel — Negative incentive
2.1. A fine for keeping a child from school — Negative incentive 2. A free school place with a meal — Positive incentive 3. An assisted passage for a family with no fare — Positive incentive 4. No pay for a shift arrived late to — Negative incentive
3.1. Cheaper dues for regular shippers — Positive incentive 2. Higher wages for a skilled spinner — Positive incentive 3. Losing relief if you leave the district — Negative incentive 4. No refund if you miss the sailing — Negative incentive
More practice for D2.Eco.2.3-5
Spot the rewards and penalties that push people towards a decision.
Teaching this next? What Pushes and What Pulls is the 50-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.