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 19 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: A district emptied while its homes are rebuilt, A school built for an estate taking other children, Skills learned on one site used on the next, Roads broken by heavy construction traffic
External costExternal benefit
2.Sort each one: External cost or External benefit?
Sort: Drains laid for one street serving the next, Noise from work continuing into the evening, A new estate bringing a bus route to a village, Dust and lorries on streets near a building site
External costExternal benefit
3.Sort each one: External cost or External benefit?
Sort: Fewer illnesses across a district once homes are dry, Cleared bomb sites made safe for everybody, Scarce bricks unavailable to anybody else, A view lost when building goes upward
External costExternal benefit
LessonPrint · D2.Eco.8.3-5 · Set 19 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — What a Building Site Does to a Street
Set 19. 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. Roads broken by heavy construction traffic — 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. Drains laid for one street serving the next — External benefit 3. Dust and lorries on streets near a building site — External cost 4. Noise from work continuing into the evening — External cost
3.1. A view lost when building goes upward — External cost 2. Cleared bomb sites made safe for everybody — External benefit 3. Fewer illnesses across a district once homes are dry — External benefit 4. Scarce bricks unavailable to anybody else — External cost
More practice for D2.Eco.8.3-5
Give examples where a choice affects people who were not part of it.