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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

That's Not Fair! How Do We Share? This lesson has students explore a variety of ways to share, particularly when an obvious solution is not apparent. Grade: K-2    Published: 06/10/2002

Everyday Opportunities In this lesson, students will learn about choices and opportunity costs that occur every day. While this lesson will go on throughout the day, the act... Grade: K-2 3-5    Published: 03/24/2010

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

No Extra Room on the Mayflower The students will explore the ideas of scarcity and choices by exploring a virtual model of the Mayflower. They will then pack a virtual suitcase mak... Grade: K-2    Published: 01/10/2007

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Choices & Changes: In Life, School, & Work - Grades 2-4 - Teacher's Resource Manual Grade: 2-4   Published: 2001 8 of the 18 lessons are related to this lesson. The top 5 are 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 1: Lesson 1 - Scarcity It is a paradox that people who learn to accept and deal with scarcity often achieve much more than those who don't accept it. The inability to deal with scarcity leads to problems with money, educat... Unit 1: Lesson 2 - Alternatives In working on Choices and Changes, students should learn that they can ordinarily respond to events in their lives by alternative means, and that it is up to them in these cases to find an alternative... Unit 1: Lesson 4 - Choice In this lesson, students should recognize that they have the power to choose and that they do make many choices. Many people feel powerless because they think they don't make choices.

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 3: Lesson 8 - We Are Consumers Students discover that they are consumers. As they fill their pockets with pictures of wants, students learn that consumers want both goods and services. As they try to help Nicholas choose a pet, a... Theme 1: Lesson 3 - What Is Money? This lesson focuses on two types of money -- paper money and coins. The students identify money and its value (ability to buy things) while participating in a money-matching activity. The students g... Theme 2: Lesson 5 - Why We Save Students create a banner depicting their own choices when a decision is made and an opportunity cost is incurred. Then the class learns about saving to satisfy a want. Finally students make and deco... Theme 4: Lesson 13 - We Are Lenders This lesson focuses on the relationship between borrowers and lenders from the perspective of the lender. The students explore the costs and benefits of making a lending decision using the Pocket Dec...

Master Curriculum Guides in Economics: Teaching Strategies - K-2 Grade: K-2   Published: 1993 5 of the 25 lessons are related to this lesson. They are listed below. Unit 1: Lesson 3 - Foods Around the World Students prepare and taste foods from around the world as they learn about the different goods and services used by consumers around the world. Unit 1: Lesson 4 - Learning Center: Winning Wants Students construct a winner's ribbon as they complete sentences describing many ways to satisfy a want. Unit 1: Lesson 1 - Wants from A to Z! Students produce an alphabet big book as they learn that economic wants are things people would like to have. 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. 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.

Exploring the Marketplace: The Community Publishing Company - Teacher Resource Manual Grade: 3-4   Published: 1989 5 of the 35 lessons are related to this lesson. They are listed below. Lesson 7: Community Interdependence In this lesson students learn about the interdependence that exists among people and places in their community. The students listen to "The Communityville Tour" and associate the information in it wi... Lesson 6: Our Community The students study their own community while creating a display on the bulletin board. Using the lists prepared in Lesson 5, students discuss the places that produce goods and services in the communi... Lesson 3: Communities Change Students analyze how Communityville has grown by examining another map of the town. The students locate new resources that provide goods and services to the people of Communityville. Lesson 2: Community Resources This lesson aims to develop an understanding of natural, human, and capital goods resources through a mapping exercise. The students study a map of a model community and begin to understand that a co... Lesson 4: Communities Today Students study how resources change in communities by comparing the maps of Communityville. This lesson summarizes the two previous map lessons and helps students become familiar with the suppliers of...