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 Service
 Ben's Guide to US Government: Your
Neighborhood