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1st grade · Social Studies · Unit 5 of 15

Goods and Services

How communities share what they make

What your child practices

Introduces goods (things) and services (work people do), and how communities depend on each other to exchange them.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: 1.3; 1.6 · goods and services, and how products get from producers to buyers

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. A good is a thing you can hold, like boots or an apple.
  2. A service is a job someone does for you.
  3. Some workers make goods. Some give services.

Example: A bus driver gives people a ride. Is this a good or a service? You can't hold a ride. The driver does a job for you. Answer: service

Goods and Services in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 5 of 15 in 1st grade Social Studies, after Earning, Saving & Sharing and before Maps.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    A good is a thing you can…

    • only dream about
    • only wish for
    • only hear
    • touch and keep

  2. Question 2

    A teacher helps you learn. That is a…

    • toy
    • service
    • good
    • snack

  3. Question 3

    A baker buys wheat from a farmer. The farmer buys bread. This is…

    • helping each other by trading
    • fighting
    • hiding
    • sleeping

  4. Question 4

    Which is a service?

    • a loaf of bread
    • a pair of boots
    • a visit to the doctor
    • a bike

  5. Question 5

    Bread is a…

    • good
    • month
    • place
    • service

  6. Question 6

    A town has a baker but no dentist. What can it do?

    • ask a dentist from another town to help
    • wait for one to appear
    • close the bakery
    • forget about teeth

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