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2nd grade · Social Studies · Unit 10 of 14

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.

New York State Learning Standards learning standard: 2.8b; 2.9a · earning, saving and the resources used to make goods and provide 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 New York

In the New York State Learning Standards, this is unit 10 of 14 in 2nd grade Social Studies, after Work and Prices and before City, Suburb & Country.

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: New York State Education Department (NYSED)

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…

    • natural resource
    • want
    • service
    • tax

  2. Question 2

    Which is a natural resource?

    • a teacher
    • a hammer
    • trees

  3. Question 3

    Which resource is renewable?

    • trees, because new ones can be planted
    • coal
    • oil

  4. Question 4

    A factory machine that makes shoes is a…

    • capital resource
    • human resource
    • natural resource

  5. Question 5

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

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

  6. Question 6

    Kenji has $6 and saves $2 more. How much does he have?

    • $4
    • $12
    • $8

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