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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 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 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 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... 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 11 - Ads Make Us Spend Students examine various forms of advertising and discover why companies advertise their products. They watch television commercials to answer questions about products advertised and consumer wants. ...

Master Curriculum Guides in Economics: Teaching Strategies - K-2 Grade: K-2   Published: 1993 2 of the 25 lessons are related to this lesson. They 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 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 8 - Producer Charades Students create charades representing services performed in their classroom and later apply for and "hired" to produce these services. Unit 1: Lesson 2 - Consumer Reflections Students view a very special consumer and produce life-size silhouettes as they learn that consumers use goods and services to satisfy their wants. 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.

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 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. 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... 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 3: Lesson 11 - Workers Use Other Resources Students will define resources as things that people can use to produce goods or services. They will identify human capital as a resource, identify examples of land, and identify examples of physical... 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...

Exploring the Marketplace: The Community Publishing Company - Teacher Resource Manual Grade: 3-4   Published: 1989 3 of the 35 lessons are related to this lesson. They are listed below. 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... 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...