A Perfect Pet
The introduction to this lesson is a brief online story about a little girl’s visit to a pet store with her father. She considers several pets b...
Grade: K-2 3-5    Published: 10/14/2004


Toys for Me: A Lesson on Choice
Students encounter the concept of scarcity in their daily tasks but have little comprehension as to its meaning or how to deal with the concept of ...
Grade: K-2 3-5    Published: 04/21/2004


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


What is Competition?
Students will understand what businesses are, that a marketplace exists whenever buyers and sellers exchange goods and services, and that there is ...
Grade: K-2 3-5    Published: 12/17/2003


Big Banks, Piggy Banks
When choosing a place to put their money, people consider how safe there money will be, how easy it is to access, and whether it will earn more mon...
Grade: K-2 3-5    Published: 11/04/2003


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Choices & Changes: In Life, School, & Work - Grades 2-4 - Teacher's Resource ManualChoices & Changes: In Life, School, & Work - Grades 2-4 - Teacher's Resource Manual
Grade: 2-4   Published: 2001
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Unit 2: Lesson 7 - Goods and Services, Work and Workers
Both men and women do work and it is done in the home and outside the home. In this lesson, students begin to understand and value work in all of its forms.
Unit 2: Lesson 8 - The Work I Do
Too often, children don't understand why they are in school. They begin to think about this more as they grow older. In this lesson, children learn that their activities in school are work, and thei...
Unit 2: Lesson 9 - I Am a Bundle of Human Capital
Students will recognize that they have many skills.
Unit 1: Lesson 6 - Decision Making
Students will learn that making decisions without thinking them through and collecting sufficient information can learn to consequences they did not anticipate. They will learn to find out about othe...
Unit 1: Lesson 5 - Opportunity Cost
In this lesson students will: Recognize the importance of identifying the opportunity cost of a potential choice; Use the concept of opportunity cost before making decisions; Avoid using the word "fre...

 

 
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