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Who Am I? - Charades
First graders play a game of charades, acting out the roles of producers and consumers. This interactive lesson illustrates how goods and services are produced and consusmed.
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Where Did Foods Originate? (Foods of the New World and Old World)
What do papayas, peanuts, pineapples, and potatoes have in common? Why, they are foods explorers brought back to the Old World. Young researchers use the Internet to investigate how New World explorers helped change the Old World's diet....
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The Importance of Imports
Students explore world trade by examining items they find at home and listing countries those items came from. Data is displayed on a map and charted according to continent. They discuss how products are transported.
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Shopping the Sunday Circular
Pupils demonstrate an understanding of price-per-unit mathematics. In this computation lesson, learners accurately figure the unit price of grocery items. They create a chart and record the item, the price, the size and the cost per item.
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Food Chain Word Scramble
In this food chain words worksheet, learners unscramble the food chain words and then find a hidden word. Students unscramble 14 words total.
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Consumer Borrowing and Spending
Credit can be confusing for teens, some of whom are already using credit cards. Clear up misconceptions with this group research activity which has a solid outline with a lot of room to adjust to your needs and resources. Groups are...
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An International Dinner Table
Learners investigate the origins of several crops eaten in the United States today. The facto0rs that influence consumer choices and the influences on the American population as to eating preferences are discussed in this lesson.
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Being Resourceful: Wisconsin quarter reverse
If your class understands goods and services then they'll be ready for this lesson on various resources. After reading a series of books and engaging in class lecture and discussion, pupils will fill out worksheets. They will list...
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Louisiana Riches
Introduce your class to the concept of economics, resources, and the interaction between consumers and producers. This slide show presents simple definitions of each concept to build vocabulary. Note: This presentation focuses on goods...
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Do You Really Need It?
A large part of understanding personal finance and economics is grasping the concept of wants and needs. This presentation provides students with basic yet effective definitions of wants, needs, and how they effect advertisements and...
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Living Environment
In this environment lesson students complete a series of multiple choice and short answer questions on the food chain, DNA, cellular reproduction.
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Setting Up Shop
Seventh graders investigate what goes in to starting a retail store. In this business economics lesson, 7th graders brainstorm products they would like to sell and use magazines, newspapers and real estate listings to bring their store...
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A Day Without Agriculture
Second graders define and create a list of agricultural products. In this producers and consumers lesson, 2nd graders participate in a contest to find as many types of agriculture as they can. The student who comes up with the best...
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Agriculture Pays
Second graders role play one of the jobs related to agriculture and explain their role in getting one of the five "f's" of agriculture to the consumer. In this agriculture lesson, 2nd graders are assigned a role and a commodity. Each...
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Forest Food Chains and Webs
Students explore forest ecological systems. In this ecology lesson, students classify forest plants and animals according to their ecological roles. Students play a related vocabulary guessing game. Students choose a card on which a...
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Prairie Food Chains & Webs
Students complete a food chain. For this ecosystem lesson, students learn about producers, consumers and decomposers. Students identify herbivores, carnivores and omnivores and complete two worksheets.
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Economics: What is done to rice to get it ready to eat?
Third graders create a map showing the journey of rice from the field to the grocery store. In this agriculture instructional activity, 3rd graders discover and map the process of harvesting and preparing rice to be packaged and shipped...
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Consumer Confusion: Wants versus Needs and Gandhi's Wisdom
Fourth graders create graphs to illustrate consumer consumption throughout the world. In this consumer lesson plan, 4th graders also discuss wants and needs around the world, and consider Gandhi's opinion on material possessions as they...
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Ecosystem Game
Students examine the ecosystem by playing a game. In this ecosystem lesson, students are put into groups of decomposers, consumers, and producers. Students create a list of animals that fit into each group and items that represent...
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How Much Money?
Sixth graders count money. In this money lesson plan, 6th graders count sets of coins and dollar bills. During specified activities, they total orders and calculate the amont of change a customer should receive. Students take turns...
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Ecology Study Guide
In this ecology study guide, students fill in a table about producers, consumers and decomposers, they draw the water cycle, they fill in diagrams about cell respiration, the food pyramid, protein synthesis and nitrification, population...
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Price
First graders complete worksheets on producers and consumers and the total price of a group of items. In this price lesson plan, 1st graders read the book A Dollar for Penny in order to understand price, producers, and consumers, and...
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Who Makes Your Cereal?
Fourth graders investigate how cereal is produced. In this agricultural lesson, 4th graders discuss where ingredients in cereal come from. Students use picture cards to identify the steps in producing cereal.
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Ecosystem Tumble
Students create visual representations of ecosystems. In this ecology lesson, students discuss the interdependence of plants and animals in various ecosystems. Students cut pictures from magazines and glue them on sturdy blocks. Using...