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The Little Red Hen The Little Red Hen is a classic story for nearly all adults, and many children. Here it is retold and enhanced in order to provide a framework for ... Grade: K-2 3-5    Published: 01/20/2003

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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

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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 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 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 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 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.

Exploring the Marketplace: The Community Publishing Company - Teacher Resource Manual Grade: 3-4   Published: 1989 9 of the 35 lessons are related to this lesson. The top 5 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... Lesson 13: Results of the Community Interviews Students review their Community Notebooks and interview forms to help them form generalizations about their community. Lesson 12: Interviewing People in the Community Students learn how to conduct an interview to collect information about people and places in their community. Students practice their interviewing skills by interviewing each other, with the students...

Financial Fitness for Life: Pocket Power - Grades K-2 - Teacher Guide Grade: K-2   Published: 2001 4 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 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 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...

Choices & Changes: In Life, School, & Work - Grades 5-6 - Teacher's Resource Manual Grade: 5-6   Published: 2001 2 of the 15 lessons are related to this lesson. They are listed below. Unit 3: Lesson 7 - Can I Produce Something People Want? Students use common objects to produce goods they think people will use to satisfy wants. They read a biography of inventor George Washington Carver, learning how Carver helped tenant farmers in the ... Unit 1: Lesson 1 - What If I Do Not Have the Skills and Knowledge I Need to Produce? Teams of students use their limited knowledge to accomplish a challenging task. Most of the student teams will not be successful until they acquire the necessary knowledge. The students read one of ...

Financial Fitness for Life: Steps to Financial Fitness - Grades 3-5 - Teacher Guide Grade: 3-5   Published: 2001 2 of the 16 lessons are related to this lesson. They are listed below. Theme 3: Lesson 6 - Consumers Want Goods and Services This lesson focuses on consumer spending decisions that students make and the different roles they assume in making those decisions. The activities establish a rationale for studying personal finance... Theme 3: Lesson 7 - To Choose is to Refuse In this lesson, students use the concept of opportunity cost to help decide which wants to satisfy with their limited income. Practicing decision making helps build consumer skills and develop an und...