Spending Choices Exit Ticket

4th Grade Social StudiesEconomics2 pages

About this worksheet

This 4th grade economics check prints three identical exit tickets, two on the first page and one on the second, so one printout serves three students after cutting. Each ticket first asks students to define opportunity cost in their own words. Then it applies the idea: you buy a snack now instead of saving for a book, and students name what they gave up. A row of five faces lets them rate how they feel about the day. It covers C3 Framework D2.Eco.1.3-5 and runs 2 pages. There is no answer key, though question 2 has one clear answer, the book.

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Curriculum objectives covered

D2.Eco.1.3-5

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

Question 2 asks students to set the snack they bought against the book they could have saved for.

What's inside this worksheet

Exit Ticket Questions

A name line, question 1 on the meaning of opportunity cost, and question 2 on the snack-or-book choice, repeated on all three tickets.

Feelings Scale

Each ticket ends with a five-face scale from angry to very happy.

How teachers use it

Last five minutes

Hand these out as the lesson closes and collect them at the door. Two questions take most students under three minutes.

Sort the stack

Students who answer "the snack" for question 2 have the idea backward. Pull that pile into a small group the next day.

Use the faces

Put the frowning faces beside the answers. A correct answer with a sad face often means the student guessed.

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