Social Studies Overview Unit Three-
Working Together
Main Ideas

*People make choices about earning, spending, and saving money.
*Making a decision is based on a step-by-step process.
*The "Phoenix Kids Pride Program" encourages children to make Phoenix a better place to live.
*Taxes are used to pay for services provided to the community.
*Florence Nightingale exemplified good citizenship by devoting her life to training nurses and improving the care of sick and injured people.
*By reading a diagram of a fire engine, people understand the importance of its many parts.
*A factory is a building where people produce goods.
*The development of goods sold to consumers can be traced from natural resources, which producers turn into finished products.
*Using a compass rose helps people understand direction and follow a route.
*People spend and save their money in different ways; people pay for goods and services in different ways.
*A pie chart is a good way to show information.
*Linda Alvarado is a community leader and company president whose success shows why it is important to get a good education.
*Countries exchange goods by using different means of transportation, such as trains, trucks, boats, and planes.
*People in the past bartered goods and services instead of using money to get what they needed.

Vocabulary Words

Income-Income is the money that people earn.
Goods-Goods are things that people make or grow.Services-Services are jobs that people do to help others.
Tax-Tax is money that is collected by a government. Tax money helps pay for community buildings and pays community workers such as police officers.
Factory-A factory is a building where people produce goods.
Trade-Trade means to buy, sell, or exchange goods.
Transportation-Transportation is a way of moving goods or people from place to place.
Barter- To barter is to trade goods or services for other goods or services without using money.

Unit Quiz

Directions: Pick one of the above vocabulary words to fill in the blank.

1. Things that people make or grow are called________.
2. This is a way of moving things from place to place.__________
3. This money is used to pay for some of our schools.__________
4. What do we call buying, selling or exchanging goods?___________
5. ______________ is what we earn when we work.
6. A ____________ is where goods are made.
7. What do we call jobs that we do to help others?__________
8. To trade goods or services for other goods or services without using money is to ______________.

Fill in the blanks for the following questions.

1. Name four things that would be considered needs._______________
2. Name four things that would be considered wants______________.
3. List five occupations that would be considered service workers.___________________

What Did You Learn

Can you name several ways in which people earn and use their income?
Can you tell how taxes help in our community?
Explain how you might barter for goods or services.
Make a list of what your family might choose to buy if they could buy only things that your family needed to live.

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