Integrated Literacy Assignment

1-E1.0.1 Distinguish between producers and consumers of goods and services.

1-E1.0.3 Using examples, explain why people cannot have everything they want (scarcity) and describe how people respond (choice).

Cassey Jones

Helpful Sites
This website lists all economics GLCEs grades k-12. Almost every GLCE has 2-3 lesson plans along with it.
http://www.econedlink.org/economic-standards/statestandards.php?educatorState=MI Search and Spot: Students are shown four different pictures. In each picture, they must search for the things they need to survive. http://www.brainpopjr.com/socialstudies/economics/needsa ndwants/search/

Picture Books

Monster Musical Chairs by Stuart J. Murphy

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff

The Milk Makers by Gail Gibbons

Worksheets and Foldables

This foldable shows the beginning of milk being produced to the consumer drinking it.

Our Needs and Wants and Producers and Consumers both written by Amy Hutchings
This big book helps students to understand the choices people make and different ways people meet their needs and wants.

This big book helps students to understand that people are consumers when they buy or use goods and services and producers when they make or provide goods and services.

Video: Needs vs Wants

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el40d2gyWaI&list=PL64021C7FD598F EC1

This short video explains wants and needs at the beginning, then tells a story about two boys wanting to buy bicycles, but they need to save money to do so. One of the boys makes the choice to stop at the convenience store every day and buy soda and a candy bar. By the end of the year, he spent all his money at the convenience store and cannot afford the bicycle. The other boy makes the choice to save his money and at the end of the year he is able to buy his bicycle and even has some money left over.

Music and Poetry!

Goods and Services Goods, goods, goods, are things That we make and use. The Wanting Song We're buying and selling (Sung to the tune of London Bridge is And selling and buying Falling Down) Any goods we choose. Services are things we do Wants are things Id like to have That other people use. Like to have, like to have. We're buying and selling Wants are things Id like to have And selling and buying (students name) wants_______. Services that we choose.
This blog has a ton of awesome poems!

http://www.jologriffin.com/gazillion.cfm?subpage=25700

Popcorn Scarcity Activity

What you will need -1 Large brown paper bag filled with popped popcorn -1 Large brown paper bag filled with crumpled newspaper -3 Small brown paper lunch bags PER student -Alternative snacks Open the large brown paper bag filled with popped popcorn. Allow students to go up one row at a time to collect popcorn. Tell them that they can take as much as they want-even offer them extra lunch bags to carry it all. Eventually, the popcorn will run out before every student gets some. Explain that if the students who already got popcorn had known that there was crumpled newspaper in the other large brown paper bag, they probably would have taken much less popcorn so that everyone would have gotten some. http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/lessons/popcorn.htm

Toys for Me: A Lesson on Choice

Read the story poem Toys for Me, written by C.D. Crain. In the story, Scarcitys mother is only giving her one present for her birthday and for Christmas. Scarcity does not believe this is fair. She wants this AND that, not this OR that. Scarcity learns to make choices. http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/i ndex.php?lid=517&type=educator

Thats not Fair! How do We Share?

This lesson has students explore a variety of ways to share, particularly when an obvious solution is not apparent.

Describe scarcity as it relates to limited

Students will be able to...

numbers of goods used in classroom activities. Identify choices and the costs of choosing one item over another. Describe the difficulty in distributing goods or services to satisfy all wants. http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.php?l id=252&type=educator

Needs and Wants

Written and performed by Beth Yankee, Michael Creager, and Steven Davison.
Every family has needs and wants. Families need basic things. Food, clothing, shelter, are what they need to live. These are the three basic needs. If a sandwich is a need, pat your head! If shoes are a need, stomp your feet! If a house is a need, turn around! Every family has needs and wants. Families want many things. They dont need these things to live, But they make them happy. If TV is a want, slap your lap! If toys are a want, touch your toes! If cookies are a want, clap up high! Every family has needs and wants. Families need basic things. Food, clothing, shelter, are what they need to live. These are the three basic needs. (x2)

Social Studies Alive! My School and Family CD

Citations

BrainPOP Jr. | Needs and Wants | Game. (n.d.). BrainPOP Jr. | Needs and Wants | Game. Retrieved February 24, 2014, from http://www.brainpopjr.com/socialstudies/economics/needsandwants/search/ First Grade Buddies: Mentor Text Linky {4.28.13}. (n.d.). First Grade Buddies: Mentor Text Linky {4.28.13}. Retrieved February 24, 2014, from http://firstgradebuddies2.blogspot.com/2013/04/mentor-text-linky-42813.html Gibbons, G. (1985). The milk makers. New York: Macmillan ;. Hutchings, A. (2012). Goods and services. Pelham, NY: Benchmark Education. Hutchings, A. (2012). Our needs and wants. Pelham, NY: Benchmark Education.

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Michigan. (n.d.). Standards in Economics and Personal Finance. Retrieved February 24, 2014, from http://www.econedlink.org/economic-standards/statestandards.php?educatorState=MI Murphy, S. J., & Nash, S. (2000). Monster musical chairs. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. Needs vs Wants. (2010, October 7). YouTube. Retrieved February 24, 2014, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el40d2gyWaI&list=PL64021C7FD598FEC1 Numeroff, L. J., & Bond, F. (1985). If you give a mouse a cookie. New York: Harper & Row.

POEMS-SOCIAL STUDIES. (n.d.). POEMS-SOCIAL STUDIES. Retrieved February 24, 2014, from http://www.jologriffin.com/gazillion.cfm?subpage=25700
Popcorn Scarcity Economics Lesson. (n.d.). Popcorn Scarcity Economics Lesson. Retrieved February 24, 2014, from http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/lessons/popcorn.htm

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Saylor's Log: This and That in Economics. (n.d.). Saylor's Log: This and That in Economics. Retrieved February 24, 2014, from http://saylorslog.blogspot.com/2012/03/this-and-thatin-economics.html?m=1 That's Not Fair! How Do We Share?. (n.d.). Economic lesson plans, Personal Finance lesson plans and resources for educators, students and afterschool providers. Retrieved February 24, 2014, from http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.php?lid=252&type=educator Toys for Me: A Lesson on Choice. (n.d.). Economic lesson plans, Personal Finance lesson plans and resources for educators, students and afterschool providers. Retrieved February 20, 2014, from http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.php?lid=517&type=educator