Benefits and Costs Unit Test

4th Grade Social StudiesEconomics7 pages

About this worksheet

Plan 45 minutes for this 7-page unit test on benefits, costs, and choices in 4th grade economics. Section 1 has 13 items: multiple-choice vocabulary on scarcity and opportunity cost, two true-or-false questions, and five statements to label Benefit or Cost. Section 2 gives two decision scenarios, Leo choosing a $40 video game over his bicycle fund and Emma picking the school play over Saturday soccer, with five questions each. Question 24 asks for a paragraph on $50 sneakers versus a $150 tablet using four vocabulary words. It assesses C3 Framework D2.Eco.1.3-5 and has a full answer key.

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Curriculum objectives covered

D2.Eco.1.3-5

โ€œCompare the benefits and costs of individual choices.โ€

Both scenarios ask for a benefit and a cost of each option, and question 24 has students weigh sneakers now against a tablet later.

What's inside this worksheet

Vocabulary and Concepts

Questions 1 to 6 are multiple choice, such as Maya choosing to play outside instead of reading. Questions 7 and 8 are true or false, and 9 to 13 ask students to label statements Benefit or Cost.

Decision Scenarios

Scenario A (questions 14 to 18) follows Leo and his $40. Scenario B (questions 19 to 23) follows Emma, whose soccer team and school play both meet at 10:00 AM on Saturdays.

Extended Response

Question 24 asks students to spend $50 on sneakers or save it toward a $150 tablet and defend the choice using scarcity, benefit, cost, and opportunity cost.

Answer Key

Every answer from 1 to 23, plus two model paragraphs for question 24, one for spending and one for saving.

How teachers use it

Question 8 trap

"If you have enough money to buy two things, but only time to use one" still counts as scarcity. Students who link scarcity only to money mark False.

Scoring question 24

Full credit requires all four vocabulary words used correctly. Decide in advance whether a strong paragraph that misses one word earns partial credit.

Split over two days

For students who tire easily, give Section 1 on day one and Sections 2 and 3 the next. The scenarios and question 24 need the most writing stamina anyway.

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