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 10 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 a Building Site Does to a Street
D2.Eco.8.3-5
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Sort each effect into cost or benefit.
1.Sort each one: External cost or External benefit?
Sort: Skills learned on one site used on the next, Fewer illnesses across a district once homes are dry, Noise from work continuing into the evening, Scarce bricks unavailable to anybody else
External costExternal benefit
2.Sort each one: External cost or External benefit?
Sort: Dust and lorries on streets near a building site, A new estate bringing a bus route to a village, Roads broken by heavy construction traffic, Cleared bomb sites made safe for everybody
External costExternal benefit
3.Sort each one: External cost or External benefit?
Sort: A view lost when building goes upward, A school built for an estate taking other children, Drains laid for one street serving the next, A district emptied while its homes are rebuilt
External costExternal benefit
LessonPrint · D2.Eco.8.3-5 · Set 10 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — What a Building Site Does to a Street
Set 10. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Fewer illnesses across a district once homes are dry — External benefit 2. Noise from work continuing into the evening — External cost 3. Scarce bricks unavailable to anybody else — External cost 4. Skills learned on one site used on the next — External benefit
2.1. A new estate bringing a bus route to a village — External benefit 2. Cleared bomb sites made safe for everybody — External benefit 3. Dust and lorries on streets near a building site — External cost 4. Roads broken by heavy construction traffic — External cost
3.1. A district emptied while its homes are rebuilt — External cost 2. A school built for an estate taking other children — External benefit 3. A view lost when building goes upward — External cost 4. Drains laid for one street serving the next — External benefit
More practice for D2.Eco.8.3-5
Give examples where a choice affects people who were not part of it.