What a Building Site Does to a Street 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 1 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
1.Sort each one: External cost or External benefit?
Sort: Dust and lorries on streets near a building site, A district emptied while its homes are rebuilt, Drains laid for one street serving the next, A school built for an estate taking other children
External costExternal benefit
2.Sort each one: External cost or External benefit?
Sort: Cleared bomb sites made safe for everybody, Noise from work continuing into the evening, Skills learned on one site used on the next, Roads broken by heavy construction traffic
External costExternal benefit
3.Sort each one: External cost or External benefit?
Sort: A new estate bringing a bus route to a village, Scarce bricks unavailable to anybody else, Fewer illnesses across a district once homes are dry, A view lost when building goes upward
External costExternal benefit
LessonPrint · D2.Eco.8.3-5 · Set 1 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — What a Building Site Does to a Street
Set 1. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. A district emptied while its homes are rebuilt — External cost 2. A school built for an estate taking other children — External benefit 3. Drains laid for one street serving the next — External benefit 4. Dust and lorries on streets near a building site — External cost
2.1. Cleared bomb sites made safe for everybody — External benefit 2. Noise from work continuing into the evening — External cost 3. Roads broken by heavy construction traffic — External cost 4. Skills learned on one site used on the next — External benefit
3.1. A new estate bringing a bus route to a village — External benefit 2. A view lost when building goes upward — External cost 3. Fewer illnesses across a district once homes are dry — External benefit 4. Scarce bricks unavailable to anybody else — External cost
Questions about What a Building Site Does to a Street
What does the What a Building Site Does to a Street worksheet cover?
It practises external benefits and costs — 3 questions for Grade 3 to Grade 5, all on Common Core D2.Eco.8.3-5: Give examples where a choice affects people who were not part of it. The instruction to pupils is “Sort each effect into cost or benefit”, and the answer key follows on the next sheet.
Which Common Core standard does What a Building Site Does to a Street practise?
D2.Eco.8.3-5 — D2.Eco.8.3-5, in the Economics domain for Grade 3 to Grade 5. The published standard reads: “Identify examples of external benefits and costs.” The worksheet assesses that standard rather than a paraphrase of it.
What age or grade is this worksheet for?
What a Building Site Does to a Street is written for Grade 3 to Grade 5, typically ages 40-41. It is one of the sheets on D2.Eco.8.3-5, so it suits any pupil working at that standard — including older pupils revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.
Does What a Building Site Does to a Street come with an answer key?
Yes. All 3 answers are generated from the same problems as the questions, so the key cannot drift out of step with the sheet. It starts on a fresh sheet of paper, after the questions, so it is not handed out with the class by accident.
How many different versions of What a Building Site Does to a Street can I print?
25 — one per pupil, and all 25 ask different questions. Set 1 downloads the whole class as a single PDF. Every version is fixed to its own address, so a sheet printed today holds the same problems when you reopen it next week.
Is What a Building Site Does to a Street free to print and photocopy?
Yes. What a Building Site Does to a Street, its answer key and its 25 versions are free to print and photocopy for your own class, with no account, no email capture and no subscription at the download step. Please do not resell them or republish them as your own.
Is there a lesson plan to teach D2.Eco.8.3-5?
Yes — “What a Building Site Does to a Street” is a 55-minute Grade 3 to Grade 5 plan for D2.Eco.8.3-5, timed section by section, with the misconceptions to expect and an exit ticket. What a Building Site Does to a Street is the practice that follows it.
More practice for D2.Eco.8.3-5
Give examples where a choice affects people who were not part of it.