Grants, Penalties and Priorities 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 12 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.
Grants, Penalties and Priorities
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: A grant to councils that exceed their target, Public credit for a council that finishes early, A fine for selling allocated timber onward, A penalty for a supplier that misses delivery
Positive incentiveNegative incentive
2.Sort each one: Positive incentive or Negative incentive?
Sort: Extra materials for the worst damaged districts, Publication of the councils that built least, Materials withheld from a council behind schedule, A guaranteed price for five years
Positive incentiveNegative incentive
3.Sort each one: Positive incentive or Negative incentive?
Sort: Losing your place if you refuse an offer, No refund if a site is abandoned, Priority on the list for the longest waiting, A subsidy for building upward on cleared land
Positive incentiveNegative incentive
LessonPrint · D2.Eco.2.3-5 · Set 12 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Grants, Penalties and Priorities
Set 12. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. A fine for selling allocated timber onward — Negative incentive 2. A grant to councils that exceed their target — Positive incentive 3. A penalty for a supplier that misses delivery — Negative incentive 4. Public credit for a council that finishes early — Positive incentive
2.1. A guaranteed price for five years — Positive incentive 2. Extra materials for the worst damaged districts — Positive incentive 3. Materials withheld from a council behind schedule — Negative incentive 4. Publication of the councils that built least — Negative incentive
3.1. A subsidy for building upward on cleared land — Positive incentive 2. Losing your place if you refuse an offer — Negative incentive 3. No refund if a site is abandoned — Negative incentive 4. Priority on the list for the longest waiting — Positive incentive
More practice for D2.Eco.2.3-5
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