Indiana Social Studies 3.E.2
The Standard
Give examples of goods and services provided by local business and industry.
2026 Indiana Academic Standards: K-12 Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students name things made or sold nearby and work people do for customers. They tell the difference between buying an item and paying someone to do a task.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can name bread from a bakery and a haircut from a barbershop. They can explain that bread is an item and a haircut is work someone does.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may call a haircut an item because someone pays for it. They may also think a factory offers a service just because people work there.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: A bakery sells rolls, and a bike shop fixes flat tires. Which is an item, and which is work done for a customer? Name one more example from town.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a wrapped roll, a haircut appointment card, and a bike repair receipt to sort into items or paid work.
Ask, 'At a bike shop, how is buying a helmet different from paying someone to fix a flat tire?'
Play workplace match with bakery, barbershop, and furniture factory cards; students match bread, haircuts, or tables and label each item or paid work.
Bring a local hardware store flyer and a key-cutting sign; have students name one item sold and the paid task offered.
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Related Standards
- 2.E.2
Research goods and services produced in the local community, and describe how people can be both producers and consumers.
- 3.E.3
Give examples of trade in the local community, and explain how trade benefits both parties.
- 4.E.1
Give examples of the kinds of goods produced and services provided in Indiana in different historical periods.
- 1.E.2
Identify services that people provide for others.
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