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3rd Grade Goods and Services worksheets

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Grade 3 Social Studies Worksheet - Building Confidence

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Circle the answer.

1.
Tia buys bread at Mr. Gold's bakery. Who is the consumer?
- Mr. Gold
- the farmer who grew the wheat
- Tia
2.
Which of these is a good, something you can hold?
- a soccer ball
- a car wash
- a swimming lesson
3.
Which of these is a service?
- a hairbrush
- a haircut
- a bottle of shampoo
4.
Mr. Lee fixes bikes at his shop. What is he selling?
- a good
- a service
- a new bike
5.
What is a producer?
- someone who makes goods or gives services
- someone who only buys things
- someone who saves all their money
6.
Which worker makes a good?
- a teacher who teaches math
- a baker who makes bread
- a doctor who checks ears
7.
Sam pays for a ride on the city bus. What is Sam buying?
- a service
- a good
- the bus
8.
A farmer grows apples and sells them. What is the farmer?
- a consumer
- a service
- a producer
9.
Which list has only goods?
- a shoe, a bus ride, a book
- a pencil, a haircut, an apple
- a pencil, a shoe, an apple
10.
What is a consumer?
- someone who buys and uses things
- someone who grows food to sell
- someone who makes things to sell

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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 Choice Earlier: 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?

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