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2nd grade · Social Studies · Unit 8 of 10

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.

Alaska content standards learning standard: SS.2.4.11.1; SS.2.1.13.1 · how and why people earn money, and short- and long-term saving goals

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 Alaska

In the Alaska content standards, this is unit 8 of 10 in 2nd grade Social Studies, after Reading Maps and before Maps of Our World.

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: Alaska Department of Education and Early Development

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

    Which resource is non-renewable?

    • oil
    • wind
    • sunlight

  2. Question 2

    Priya has $5. She can buy a book or a toy, not both. She has to…

    • make a choice
    • get both free
    • buy both

  3. Question 3

    Why do employers pay workers?

    • for the work they do
    • for nothing
    • so they stay home

  4. Question 4

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

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

  5. Question 5

    Water used to grow almonds is a…

    • natural resource
    • service
    • tax
    • want

  6. Question 6

    Zoe earns $3 a week and saves it all. How much does she have after 4 weeks?

    • $9
    • $12
    • $7

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