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2nd grade · Social Studies · Unit 7 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.

Arizona Academic Standards learning standard: 2.E1.1; 2.E3.2 · jobs and earning income

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 Arizona

In the Arizona Academic Standards, this is unit 7 of 10 in 2nd grade Social Studies, after Communities Compared and before Citizens & Leaders.

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: Arizona Department of Education

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

    Money kept in a piggy bank is…

    • savings
    • a tax
    • a loan

  2. Question 2

    Water used to grow almonds is a…

    • natural resource
    • want
    • tax
    • service

  3. Question 3

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

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

  4. Question 4

    A renewable resource…

    • is made in a factory
    • can be replaced or will not run out
    • is used up forever

  5. Question 5

    Which is a natural resource?

    • trees
    • a teacher
    • a hammer

  6. Question 6

    A factory machine that makes shoes is a…

    • natural resource
    • human resource
    • capital resource

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