OverviewThis publication contains lessons on the unique world in which middle-grade children live. The lessons help teachers enter the student's world and tap their natural eagerness to learn and to interact with their peers.
Detailed InformationThe 15 lessons in this five-part instructional guide are designed to make teaching and learning economics exciting and rewarding by building on the world in which children in grades 3-4 live. Students take part in a trading activity, bookmark production activity, conduct interviews, and take part in a simulation. Discussion, reading, and writing clarify and reinforce such economic concepts as:
- Goods and services
- Scarcity
- Wants
- Resources
- Decision making
- Productivity
- Specialization
- Producers and consumers
- Barter
- Money
- Supply and Demand
- Taxes
- Entrepreneurship
- Division of Labor
Each lesson contains a summary of the economic content, a list of materials and preparation needed, instructions for teaching, and suggestions for reinforcing the economic concepts within other subject areas and through children's literature, family activities, newspapers, and community involvement.
Teacher FeedbackDo you use these materials? Please provide feedback for other teachers. | | 
Email a Friend
 
Fax/Mail
Order Form
Order by Phone
800.338.1192
|
