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Grade 2 · Social Studies · Unit 4 of 5

Smart Shoppers

Choose wisely, save up and shop local.

What your child practises

Practises how consumers decide what to buy: comparing price and quality, needs and wants, saving up, advertising, and local goods like blueberries, apples and lobster. Prices are in whole dollars. It follows the Grade 2 outcome on consumer decisions.

Nova Scotia Curriculum learning outcome: Investigate how decisions are made as consumers · Learn how shoppers choose, compare prices and save

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 is a local food from Nova Scotia?

    • bananas
    • pineapples
    • blueberries

  2. Question 2

    Where do many Nova Scotia apples grow?

    • a desert
    • the Annapolis Valley
    • the Arctic

  3. Question 3

    A book costs $8. You pay with $10. How much change do you get?

    • $2
    • $8
    • $18

  4. Question 4

    Buying local goods means buying things made…

    • long ago
    • near where you live
    • on another planet

  5. Question 5

    Two pencils cost the same. One is stronger. Which is a good choice?

    • the stronger one
    • the weaker one
    • neither

  6. Question 6

    Two shops sell the same bike. Shop A is $50 and Shop B is $45. Which is the better deal?

    • Shop B
    • Shop A
    • They cost the same

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