Goods and Services

Grade 3

Social Studies Online

Blueprint Skill Economics

Identify examples of private and public goods and services. 

Goods and Services

Goods are things you can buy that you can touch. Can you buy apples? Can you touch apples? Then the apples are goods.

Can you touch and buy jump ropes, swing sets, bats and balls, caps, pans, or pencils? These items are all called goods.

Goods and Services

From time to time we also buy things that cannot be touched. For example, we buy haircuts when we go to the barber shop or the salon. We buy repairs and cleaning for our teeth when we go to the dentist. In both cases, we are buying a SERVICE. It is something done for us.

Goods and Services

Community helpers are people who provide SERVICES for us. Some of our community helpers are paid by our government. What community helpers are paid by the government and what do they do? Click on Ben's Guide to US Government: Your Neighborhood and find out!

Goods and Services

Can you tell the difference between a good and a service?

Play this game to find out.

Game

Resources

Community Helpers at Your ServiceBen's Guide to US Government: Your Ne

ighborhood