Grab a Fun Goods and Services Activity!

We’ve got you covered with a fun and exciting set of Goods and Services Task Cards. Use these task cards to help your students practice identifying goods and services while moving about the room! Task cards are a great Social Studies formative assessment tool, allowing you to check for understanding in a differentiated way.

This resource covers standards required within the following topics/grades

• Economics – Goods and Services for Kindergarten

• Economics – Goods and Services for First Grade

The Goods and Services Task Card resource is a set of 20 task cards designed to help your students practice identifying goods and services. Students will look at an image prompt and then write whether the object seen is a good or service on their answer sheet. These task cards are perfect for use in groups or with individual students!

Tips for Differentiation + Scaffolding 

A team of dedicated, experienced educators created this resource to support your Economics lessons. 

If you have a mixture of above and below-level learners, check out these suggestions for keeping students on track with the concepts: 

🆘 Support Struggling Students

Help students who need help understanding the concepts by completing the activity in a small group or one-to-one learning environment.

➕ Challenge Fast Finishers

Challenge your fast finishers to identify additional goods and services in books they read and make lists or t-charts showing their learning.

🛴 Scoot Activity 

Place the cards around the room in numerical order and give each student a recording sheet. Assign students or pairs to a starting point card. Give students time to review the card and record their answers in the corresponding space on their paper. Students will rotate to the next card when you say, “SCOOT!” Continue in this manner until students return to their starting point. 

👋 Exit Ticket

Use these cards as a formative assessment after your lesson. Pick a random assortment of cards and project them on the board for the whole class to see. Students can record their answers on paper, sticky notes, or notebooks. 

Plan lessons for all ability levels with our 10 Best Scaffolding Strategies! 

Easily Prepare This Resource for Your Students

Use the dropdown menu on the Download button to download the color or blackline PDF or editable Google Slide versions of your choice. Print a set of cards, copy an answer sheet for your students, and you are ready to go. 

These cards work well as a whole group activity, small group activity, or a learning center completed independently. Make sure you grab a set and get your students up and learning!

Get more handy economics activities here!  

This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher in Michigan and Teach Starter Collaborator. 

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