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Goods and Services

Grade 3 Social Studies Worksheet

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Circle the answer.

  1. Which list has only services?

    • a haircut, a hat, a car wash
    • a bus, a bus ride, a car wash
    • a haircut, a bus ride, a car
    • a haircut, a bus ride, a car wash

  2. Ms. Rivera sews dresses and sells them. She also buys fabric. When is she a consumer?

    • when she shows her dresses
    • when she sells dresses
    • when she buys fabric
    • when she sews dresses

  3. A plumber fixes a family's leaky sink. What does the family buy?

    • a new sink
    • a good
    • a service
    • a pipe

  4. Which worker produces a good, not a service?

    • a pilot who flies a plane
    • a carpenter who builds tables
    • a coach who trains a team
    • a nurse who gives shots

  5. Leo pays a coach for swimming lessons. Who is the producer?

    • Leo
    • Leo's parents
    • the coach
    • the swimming pool

  6. Which pair has one good and one service?

    • a car repair and a haircut
    • a toy car and a bike
    • a bike and a skateboard
    • a toy car and a car repair

  7. The library lends books for free. What does the library give people?

    • a service
    • money for books
    • a paying job
    • a good they keep

  8. Which person is both a producer and a consumer?

    • a farmer who sells corn and buys seeds
    • a shopper who buys shoes
    • a family that buys milk
    • a child who buys a snack

  9. Why do producers sell goods and services?

    • to get rid of things they don't want
    • to earn money to buy what they need
    • to give everything away
    • because consumers make them do it

  10. Ana's dad takes his car to a car wash. Which part is the service?

    • washing the car
    • the sponge
    • the car
    • the soap
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About this worksheet

Goods and services help students understand how people produce, exchange, and use resources in communities helps third graders connect civic, geographic, historical, economic, and cultural ideas to evidence from everyday communities. Students may call every helpful thing a good, even when it is work someone does for another person. This worksheet uses short, concrete situations instead of broad recall questions. Students identify goods, identify services, connect producers and consumers, and follow goods from the farm to the shop.

Support versions use familiar school and neighborhood examples. Standard and challenge versions add closer distractors and require more careful comparison. Encourage your child to read the situation first, name the social studies idea being tested, and then choose the answer that fits the evidence. If an answer sounds reasonable but does not match the title skill or the details in the prompt, it is a distractor. That habit builds stronger reasoning for maps, timelines, sources, communities, and economic choices.

What your child will learn

  • Tell goods from services
  • Recognize producers and consumers
  • Follow a good from producer to consumer
  • Use economic evidence

C3 Framework standard: D2.Eco.4.3-5

Worked example

A backpack is a good; repairing a backpack is a service.

Common mistake

Calling a service a good because it is useful.

Helpful hint

A good is a thing; a service is work someone does.

Next skill: Scarcity and ChoiceEarlier: Primary and Secondary Sources

Questions parents ask

What is the most common mistake with goods and services?

Calling a service a good because it is useful.

How can I help my child with goods and services?

A good is a thing; a service is work someone does.

Are these 3rd grade social studies worksheets free to print?

Yes. All 6 printable versions on this page are free to download and print, with no account needed.

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