3. Student Learning Map

  • Topic:Economics
  • Subject(s):Social Studies
  • Days:20
  • Grade(s):K
Key Learning: Studying producers, consumers, and the exchange of goods and services helps us learn how we fulfill our basic needs.
Unit Essential Question(s):
 
 
What is the importance of the exchange of goods and services?
   
Concept: Goods and Services
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Concept: Producers and Consumers
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Concept: Jobs
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Lesson Essential Question(s):

Why do we have to pay for things and what happens to the money after we pay for something? (A)
How do producers distribute their goods to consumers? (ET)
How can I be a good consumer? (A)
What is scarcity and how does it effect our needs and/or wants? (A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):

How do producers benefit from consumers, and vice versa?

 (ET)

Why is it important to save money?

 (A)

How do people get themselves/products from one place to another?

 (A)
How has this travel changed throughout history? (ET)
Lesson Essential Question(s):

Why do people need jobs?

 (A)
What are the different classifications of occupations? (agricultural, education, business, medical, public service) (ET)
Vocabulary:

scarcity, goods, services, wants, needs, exchange, consumer, producer, buyer, seller, economy, trade, distribute, availability

Vocabulary:

future, college, savings account, bank, credit, price, business

Vocabulary:

occupation, boss, employee, employer, wages, salary

Additional Information:

(Note: Holidays and Cultural Observances may be taught based on their calendar occurance dates. See Spotlight on Social Studies on the PCSB website.)

Guest speakers: local business owners, field trip to bank, set up mock store, "Just Writes: All Year Long Kindergarten" by Kathryn Robinson Week 13 Economics

Teacher manual, technology, graphic organizer, word wall, fiction and non-fiction tradebooks, photographs of various businesses, money

Resources:

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Acquisition Lesson:

Extending Thinking Lesson:

Vocabulary Report

  • scarcity -
  • future -
  • occupation -
  • boss -
  • college -
  • goods -
  • employee -
  • services -
  • savings account -
  • employer -
  • wants -
  • bank -
  • credit -
  • needs -
  • wages -
  • price -
  • salary -
  • exchange -
  • consumer -
  • business -
  • producer -
  • buyer -
  • seller -
  • economy -
  • trade -
  • distribute -
  • availability -