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The Little Red Hen The Little Red Hen is a classic story for nearly all adults, and many children. Here it is retold and enhanced in order to provide a framework for ... Grade: K-2 3-5    Published: 01/20/2003

Mystery Workers In this lesson students review the concepts of goods, services, and producers using the Internet to locate examples of each in a teacher's classroo... Grade: K-2 3-5    Published: 02/18/2004

Does the Crocodile Hunter Hunt Crocs? We make choices to use our natural resources. This lesson lets the students make choices that protect the wildlife of Australia from poachers. Grade: K-2    Published: 07/30/2002

Mystery Workers This lesson is designed to review the concepts of goods, services, and producers that were introduced in the lesson, Mystery Workers. It th... Grade: K-2 3-5    Published: 02/20/2001

The Mitten This is a folktale retold by Jan Brett about a little boy whose grandmother knits him a pair of snow-white mittens. While the boy is outside playing, ... Grade: K-2    Published: 07/25/2008

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Financial Fitness for Life: Pocket Power - Grades K-2 - Teacher Guide Grade: K-2   Published: 2001 6 of the 16 lessons are related to this lesson. The top 5 are listed below. Theme 1: Lesson 2 - Working for Income Students discuss goods and services that satisfy people's wants, and they construct a spyglass to help them identify goods and services at school. They also construct "Box Town," a model business com... Theme 1: Lesson 1 - A Good Day for Money Students listen to a short story introducing them to Penny and Nicholas, the "Money Kids." Students discuss ways people receive money -- through earning income or receiving gifts. They construct "m... Theme 3: Lesson 10 - We Plan for Spending Students construct traffic lights and use them in evaluating consumer decisions as planned or unplanned spending. Students discuss the costs and benefits of each decision. Theme 3: Lesson 9 - We Decide to Spend Students create want webs for a hamster and then for themselves. They experience spending money in exchange for goods and services when they use dimes to become consumers at a school carnival. Theme 4: Lesson 12 - We Are Borrowers Students experience borrowing time for a playtime activity and repay the borrowed time the next day. They analyze the borrowing decisions of Penny, Nicholas, and their classmates, and they determine...

Master Curriculum Guides in Economics: Teaching Strategies - K-2 Grade: K-2   Published: 1993 6 of the 25 lessons are related to this lesson. The top 5 are listed below. Unit 2: Lesson 9 - Learning Center: Producer Pigs Students hear a version of The Three Little Pigs and participate in a learning center which reinforces the concepts of natural, human, and capital resources. Unit 2: Lesson 8 - Producer Charades Students create charades representing services performed in their classroom and later apply for and "hired" to produce these services. Unit 2: Lesson 10 - Bulletin Board: Art Gallery Students combine natural, human, and capital resources to produce "art masterpieces" which they display in a bulletin board gallery. Unit 2: Lesson 6 - Mystery Workers Students play a questioning game as they learn that producers use their human resources by working in jobs to make goods and services. Unit 2: Lesson 7 - Gifts from Nature Students read a book about a tree, take a walk around the neighborhood, and produce books as they learn about natural resources.

Choices & Changes: In Life, School, & Work - Grades 2-4 - Teacher's Resource Manual Grade: 2-4   Published: 2001 1 of the 18 lessons are related to this lesson. It is listed below. Unit 3: Lesson 15 - Teaching Others Builds Human Capital Students will see the power that a teacher has to help others and connect teaching and learning. Unit 3: Lesson 14 - Practice Students will become accustomed to practice as part of the learning process. Unit 3: Lesson 13 - Learning to Produce Students will increase their self-confidence by discovering their ability to learn skills. Unit 3: Lesson 12 - Inputs, Plan, Outputs Students will take pride in their ability to produce something. Unit 1: Lesson 3 - Alternatives Have Advantages and Disadvantages In this lesson students will: Realize that alternatives have advantages and disadvantages; Accept responsibility for advantages and disadvantages of alternatives selected; And identify the advantages ...

The Wide World of Trade Grade: 6-8   Published: 2003 1 of the 11 lessons are related to this lesson. It is listed below. Lesson 5: Mystery Almanac Working in groups, students participate in an activity to identify countries from around the world. Based on what they learn about these countries, students complete an Information Resources Chart. ...

Choices & Changes: In Life, School, & Work - Grades 5-6 - Teacher's Resource Manual Grade: 5-6   Published: 2001 1 of the 15 lessons are related to this lesson. It is listed below. Unit 3: Lesson 7 - Can I Produce Something People Want? Students use common objects to produce goods they think people will use to satisfy wants. They read a biography of inventor George Washington Carver, learning how Carver helped tenant farmers in the ...