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


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


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


This Little Piggybank Went to Market
Students will learn that work is the source of income and that banks are places in which people save and secure money they have earned.
Grade: K-2    Published: 06/10/2003


Folding Our Way to Productivity
Students role-play workers producing origami cups. They participate in two production rounds, one without training and one with training. Students
Grade: K-2 3-5    Published: 03/17/2003


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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
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 5: Lesson 16 - We Manage Our Money
Students participating in a game demonstrate their knowledge of income, spending, saving, and credit decisions. They make individual books about money management and review previously taught concepts...
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 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 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.

Master Curriculum Guides in Economics: Teaching Strategies - K-2Master Curriculum Guides in Economics: Teaching Strategies - K-2
Grade: K-2   Published: 1993
4 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 5: Lesson 24 - Puppet Show: Pinky's New Bow Tie
Students produce a puppet show as they review the economic concepts from Lesson 1-23.
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.

 

 
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