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2nd grade · Social Studies · Unit 12 of 14

Community Jobs & Taxes

Workers, goods, services and taxes

What your child practices

Goods and services, community workers such as teachers, firefighters, sanitation workers and police officers, how taxes pay for community services, and how neighboring communities share resources.

New York State Learning Standards learning standard: 2.9a; 2.9b; 2.9c; 2.8a; 2.8d · community workers and the goods and services they provide, taxes, and how communities share resources and workers

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. A service is work someone does for others.
  2. When people depend on each other's jobs, it is interdependence.
  3. Volunteers help without being paid.

Example: Volunteers are people who… They give their time. They don't get money for it. Answer: help without being paid

Community Jobs & Taxes in New York

In the New York State Learning Standards, this is unit 12 of 14 in 2nd grade Social Studies, after City, Suburb & Country and before Reading 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: 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

    Who brings letters and packages to homes?

    • builders
    • pilots
    • nurses
    • mail carriers

  2. Question 2

    Who pays the firefighters in a town?

    • the fire truck company
    • nobody
    • the community, with taxes
    • only the people with fires

  3. Question 3

    A farmer sells milk to a store. The farmer is a…

    • judge
    • consumer
    • producer
    • mayor

  4. Question 4

    Who puts out fires and rescues people?

    • cashiers
    • chefs
    • writers
    • firefighters

  5. Question 5

    Two towns share one fire truck. This shows they…

    • share resources
    • are the same town
    • waste things
    • fight

  6. Question 6

    A public library is paid for by…

    • the books
    • one family
    • a toy store
    • taxes

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