Simple Simon Meets a Producer
A classic rhyme, Simple Simon and the Pie-Man, introduces students to the concepts of consumer and producer. Students learn that consumers are the peo...
Grade: K-2    Published: 07/17/2003


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


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


Community Helpers are at Your Service
Students learn that Community Helpers provide a service for their neighborhood.
Grade: K-2    Published: 10/30/2003


Related Print Lessons


The following lessons come from the Council for Economic Education's library of print publications. Clicking the publication titles will take you to the Council for Economic Education Store for more detailed information.

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 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 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 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 1: Lesson 1 - A Good Day for Money
Students listen to a short story introducing them to Penny and Nicholas, the "Money Kids." Students discuss ways people receive money -- through earning income or receiving gifts. They construct "m...

Your Credit Counts Challenge: Trainer's GuideYour Credit Counts Challenge: Trainer's Guide
Grade: 7-adult   Published: 2004
3 of the 6 lessons are related to this lesson. They are listed below.


Section 2: Financial Institutions
Participants identify the advantages and disadvantages of using financial services from alternative financial institutions and services from mainstream banks. Participants identify the services provi...
Section 3: Managing Credit
Participants will identify the advantages and disadvantages of using credit. Participants will recognize what credit is, what it costs, and the basic steps involved in obtaining credit. Participants...
Section 1: Income and Choices
Participants will understand the importance of spending less than they receive. Participants will understand how competition based on productivity determines the wages and salaries that people receiv...

Master Curriculum Guides in Economics: Teaching Strategies - K-2Master Curriculum Guides in Economics: Teaching Strategies - K-2
Grade: K-2   Published: 1993
9 of the 25 lessons are related to this lesson. The top 5 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 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 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 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.

Financial Fitness for Life: Steps to Financial Fitness - Grades 3-5 - Teacher GuideFinancial Fitness for Life: Steps to Financial Fitness - Grades 3-5 - Teacher Guide
Grade: 3-5   Published: 2001
1 of the 16 lessons are related to this lesson. It is 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...

 

 
Copyright © 2010 Council for Economic Education. All rights reserved.