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 24 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 view lost when building goes upward, Noise from work continuing into the evening, Cleared bomb sites made safe for everybody, A new estate bringing a bus route to a village
External costExternal benefit
2.Sort each one: External cost or External benefit?
Sort: Roads broken by heavy construction traffic, A school built for an estate taking other children, A district emptied while its homes are rebuilt, Skills learned on one site used on the next
External costExternal benefit
3.Sort each one: External cost or External benefit?
Sort: Fewer illnesses across a district once homes are dry, Scarce bricks unavailable to anybody else, Drains laid for one street serving the next, Dust and lorries on streets near a building site
External costExternal benefit
LessonPrint · D2.Eco.8.3-5 · Set 24 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — What a Building Site Does to a Street
Set 24. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. A new estate bringing a bus route to a village — External benefit 2. A view lost when building goes upward — External cost 3. Cleared bomb sites made safe for everybody — External benefit 4. Noise from work continuing into the evening — External cost
2.1. 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
3.1. Drains laid for one street serving the next — External benefit 2. Dust and lorries on streets near a building site — External cost 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.