Grades 3–5Ages 8–11 · Unit 2.1 · The Earning Engine
What taxes buy: a free printable worksheet for grades 3–5.
Most children have heard that taxes are money the government takes. Far fewer have ever been asked what the money bought. This page sends them out of their own front door to find six answers, which turns an abstraction into a list of things they walk past every day.
No account. No email. Nothing collected about your child.
What is on the page
- Space for six things taxes paid for
- A ranking question with a reason attached
- A teacher page on keeping it off politics
What it teaches
- That public things are paid for by someone
- That some things no single family could buy alone
- Ranking by value, and defending the ranking
How to run it
The six-item target is doing real work. The first two come instantly and the last two are where a child has to actually look — so do not let anyone stop at three.
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Where it comes from
Unit 2.1 · The Earning Engine of a 266-lesson curriculum.
This sheet is one activity, unchanged, from Financial Foundations™. Teachers can run a free five-week pilot with one class. Families can take the Family Edition home.