What’s on the Goods and Services poster
GOODS against SERVICES, side by side.
- GOODS: Things you can touch
- GOODS: Made in a factory, farm or workshop
- GOODS: Bread, shoes, a phone, a book
- GOODS: You keep them
- GOODS: A producer makes them
- SERVICES: Work somebody does for you
- SERVICES: Nothing is handed over
- SERVICES: A haircut, a bus ride, a lesson
- SERVICES: You cannot keep it
- SERVICES: A provider performs it
- A restaurant sells both — the meal is a good, the cooking and serving are a service.
Everyone is a consumer. Most people are also a producer of one or the other.
Questions about the Goods and Services poster
- What’s on the Goods and Services poster?
- GOODS against SERVICES, side by side. GOODS: Things you can touch; GOODS: Made in a factory, farm or workshop; GOODS: Bread, shoes, a phone, a book; GOODS: You keep them; GOODS: A producer makes them; SERVICES: Work somebody does for you; SERVICES: Nothing is handed over; SERVICES: A haircut, a bus ride, a lesson; SERVICES: You cannot keep it; SERVICES: A provider performs it; A restaurant sells both — the meal is a good, the cooking and serving are a service.. Everyone is a consumer. Most people are also a producer of one or the other.
- Who is the Goods and Services poster for?
- Goods and Services is filed under 3rd Grade (ages 8–9), so it matches what that year asks a child to remember. It is equally useful to an older student revisiting social studies, and to the parent or teacher answering the question at the kitchen table.
- When should you use the Goods and Services poster?
- Look at a receipt together and sort every line into one column or the other. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Goods and Services belongs on the wall where that social studies work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Goods and Services?
- Directions on a Map, Three Kinds of Community and Continents & Oceans sit alongside Goods and Services in the 3rd Grade set. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Directions on a MapThree Kinds of CommunityContinents & Oceans
- Is the Goods and Services poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Goods and Services downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the 3rd Grade set. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Goods and Services poster print at?
- Goods and Services is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Goods and Services loses nothing.Printing guide
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