Goods and Services
Students will be able to distinguish between people who produce goods and people who provide services to a community.
Grade: K-2    Published: 05/17/2006


We are Consumers and Producers
Students are consumers and producers. So are their families. In this lesson students learn how they and family members fulfill these roles at home ...
Grade: K-2    Published: 03/30/2004


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


Every Penny Counts
You know that five dollars you got for your birthday? There are so many things you can spend it on, aren’t there? A toy boat to sail on the p...
Grade: K-2    Published: 08/11/2003


What Do People Do?
Students will give examples of human resources that are producers, and identify goods and services produced by workers.
Grade: K-2    Published: 12/04/2001


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Financial Fitness for Life: Pocket Power - Grades K-2 - Teacher GuideFinancial Fitness for Life: Pocket Power - Grades K-2 - Teacher Guide
Grade: K-2   Published: 2001
2 of the 16 lessons are related to this lesson. They 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 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 4: Lesson 14 - We Owe Money
Students assume the role of the Wild Wanter and determine the amount of credit needed to satisfy their wants when income is limited. They construct a Pay Box to show some of the ways consumers pay fo...
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 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-2Master Curriculum Guides in Economics: Teaching Strategies - K-2
Grade: K-2   Published: 1993
0 of the 25 lessons are related to this lesson. They are listed below.


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 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 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 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 5: Lesson 23 - To Market, To Market
Students construct and play a shopping game as they learn that markets are places where things are bought and sold.

 

 
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