Grade 1 · Social Studies · Unit 13 of 13
Goods and Services
How communities share what they make
What your child practises
Introduces goods (things) and services (work people do), and how communities depend on each other to exchange them.
Prince Edward Island Curriculum curriculum outcome: 1.4.3 · how communities depend on each other for goods and services
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
Which is a good you can eat?
- a lesson
- an apple
- a bus ride
- a haircut
an apple
Hint: You can hold and eat it.
Question 2
Bananas do not grow in our cold winters. How do we get them?
- They come from warm places
- A baker makes them
- We dig them up
- They grow in the snow
They come from warm places
Hint: Trucks and ships bring them.
Question 3
A service is work someone does to…
- hide from you
- be a toy
- help other people
- grow a tree
help other people
Hint: Services are jobs.
Question 4
A farm sends potatoes to a far town. What is this?
- a haircut
- sharing goods with another place
- a dentist visit
- a movie
sharing goods with another place
Hint: Places help each other.
Question 5
Bread is a…
- month
- good
- place
- service
good
Hint: You can hold bread.
Question 6
A small town has no toy factory. Where do its toys come from?
- the snow
- the town’s trees
- the clouds
- a factory in another place
a factory in another place
Hint: Toys are made elsewhere.