Third Grade · History · week 29

Goods & services map

Create a simple map or list locating real goods- and services-providing businesses in the family's own community, applying mapping skills and the goods/services concept.

This week you use your mapping skills from earlier this year to show where a community's businesses are located, and what each one provides. A goods-and-services map helps you see, at a glance, what your community offers and where.

A useful map like this needs a key, just like the maps you built earlier this year, so a "G" might mean a goods business and an "S" might mean a services business on your map.

📋 For the teacher
Teach it (10–15 min):
  • Think of four or five real, familiar local businesses together before starting to draw.
  • Let your child choose and draw the map layout; your role is to help recall accurate real business names and locations.
  • Discuss briefly whether their neighborhood has more goods businesses, more service businesses, or a good mix.
  • Keep the map simple -- a clear key and four or five labeled businesses is a complete, successful map.
Talk about it:
  • Which business on your map surprised you to classify as goods or services?
  • Does your neighborhood have more goods businesses or service businesses?
  • What business do you wish existed nearby that does not yet?

Mastery looks like: They produce a map with a working key and at least four real local businesses correctly labeled as goods, services, or both.

Common stumbles: Mislabeling a business's classification, or leaving out a key so the labels do not make sense to a viewer.

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