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2nd grade · Social Studies · Unit 1 of 12

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.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 2.6(A); 2.6(B) · how work provides income, and choices about earning, spending and saving money

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 Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 1 of 12 in 2nd grade Social Studies, 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: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

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

    Saving for a snack tomorrow is a…

    • short-term goal
    • natural resource
    • long-term goal

  2. Question 2

    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

  3. Question 3

    Zoe earns $3 a week and saves it all. How much does she have after 4 weeks?

    • $7
    • $12
    • $9

  4. Question 4

    A renewable resource…

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

  5. Question 5

    Which resource is non-renewable?

    • wind
    • oil
    • sunlight

  6. Question 6

    Water used to grow almonds is a…

    • want
    • natural resource
    • tax
    • service

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