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2nd grade · Social Studies · Unit 2 of 15

Work, Saving & Resources

Producers, consumers and scarcity

What your child practices

Producers and consumers, wants and needs, saving, and how limited resources affect what people make and buy.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: 2.4 · work, producers and consumers, and goods and services

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Producers make goods or give services. Consumers buy and use them.
  2. Resources can be natural (water), human (skills) or capital (machines).
  3. When you can't have both, you must make a choice.

Example: A factory machine that makes shoes is a… The machine is a tool people made. Tools and machines are capital resources. Answer: capital resource

Work, Saving & Resources in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 2 of 15 in 2nd grade Social Studies, after Citizens & Leaders and before Work and Prices.

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

    Water used to grow almonds is a…

    • tax
    • natural resource
    • service
    • want

  2. Question 2

    A safe place to keep savings is…

    • a bank account
    • under a rock outside
    • inside a library book

  3. Question 3

    During a drought, there is less water for farms. Farmers may…

    • stop needing water
    • grow fewer crops
    • use ocean water
    • grow twice as many crops

  4. Question 4

    Why does a town have a bakery and a bike shop, not everyone doing everything?

    • bikes are free
    • no one likes bread
    • people specialize in what they do well

  5. Question 5

    A bus driver gives a…

    • good
    • service
    • natural resource

  6. Question 6

    Ana compares prices before buying. This helps her…

    • lose money
    • pay more
    • spend wisely

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