What the Town Gives Up is a free printable Kindergarten to Grade 2 social studies worksheet on the cost of a choice, aligned to Common Core standard D2.Eco.2.K-2. It prints 8 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.
Set 1 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
1.Emma works at the mill instead of going to school. What is the cost?
A.The mill
B.The wages
C.The schooling she does not get
2.The market takes the whole Square on Tuesday. What is the cost?
A.Nobody can park or cross the Square that day
B.Tuesday
C.The market
3.The council raises the river wall instead of widening the bridge. What is the cost?
A.The river
B.The wall
C.The bridge stays narrow for now
4.The school closes for the flood. What is the cost?
A.Three days of lessons the children do not get
B.The flood
C.The school
5.The council spends 800 pounds on the roof. What is given up?
A.Whatever else the town fund could have paid for
B.The roof
C.The council
6.The town bans hoses in a dry summer. What is the cost?
A.The summer
B.Gardens suffer while the reservoir refills
C.The reservoir
7.The council debates for an hour before voting. What is the cost?
A.The debate
B.The vote
C.An hour that could have gone to another item
8.The museum keeps the shuttle in a case. What is given up?
A.The shuttle
B.Nobody can handle it or use it
C.The case
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Answer key — What the Town Gives Up
Set 1. Prints on its own sheet.
1.The schooling she does not get
2.Nobody can park or cross the Square that day
3.The bridge stays narrow for now
4.Three days of lessons the children do not get
5.Whatever else the town fund could have paid for
6.Gardens suffer while the reservoir refills
7.An hour that could have gone to another item
8.Nobody can handle it or use it
Questions about What the Town Gives Up
What does the What the Town Gives Up worksheet cover?
It practises the cost of a choice — 8 questions for Kindergarten to Grade 2, all on Common Core D2.Eco.2.K-2: Name what you gain and what you give up when you make a choice. The instruction to pupils is “Circle the best answer”, and the answer key follows on the next sheet.
Which Common Core standard does What the Town Gives Up practise?
D2.Eco.2.K-2 — D2.Eco.2.K-2, in the Economics domain for Kindergarten to Grade 2. The published standard reads: “Identify the benefits and costs of making various personal decisions.” The worksheet assesses that standard rather than a paraphrase of it.
What age or grade is this worksheet for?
What the Town Gives Up is written for Kindergarten to Grade 2, typically ages 7-8. It is one of the sheets on D2.Eco.2.K-2, so it suits any pupil working at that standard — including older pupils revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.
Does What the Town Gives Up come with an answer key?
Yes. All 8 answers are generated from the same problems as the questions, so the key cannot drift out of step with the sheet. It starts on a fresh sheet of paper, after the questions, so it is not handed out with the class by accident.
How many different versions of What the Town Gives Up can I print?
25 — one per pupil, and all 25 ask different questions. Set 1 downloads the whole class as a single PDF. Every version is fixed to its own address, so a sheet printed today holds the same problems when you reopen it next week.
Is What the Town Gives Up free to print and photocopy?
Yes. What the Town Gives Up, its answer key and its 25 versions are free to print and photocopy for your own class, with no account, no email capture and no subscription at the download step. Please do not resell them or republish them as your own.
Is there a lesson plan to teach D2.Eco.2.K-2?
Yes — “What the Town Gives Up” is a 40-minute Kindergarten to Grade 2 plan for D2.Eco.2.K-2, timed section by section, with the misconceptions to expect and an exit ticket. What the Town Gives Up is the practice that follows it.
More practice for D2.Eco.2.K-2
Name what you gain and what you give up when you make a choice.
Teaching this next? What the Town Gives Up is the 40-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.